It's Champions League time and the hopeful contenders are Dinamo Zagreb and Omonia Nicosia

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Europe Champions League
Competition: Tue 20.July
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Maksimir (35423 seats)

Dinamo Zagreb host the first leg in this deciding Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round game. Omonia Nicosia will try their very best to bring a solid result back to Neo GSP before the return leg in 10 days.

Dinamo have less rest than Omonia Nicosia in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a 1. HNL game only four days ago. This match was also played here at Stadion Maksimir. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Omonia Nicosia have had more rest.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Omonia Nicosia, who are travelling more than 2300 kilometers to play this game.

L W W W W

Dinamo Zagreb form and stats

This is not the first game this season in the Champions League for Dinamo, as the manager D. Krznar led his troops to eliminate Valur, and reach the 2nd Qualifying Round. Dinamo Zagreb was eliminated in the 3rd qualifying round last season in the Champions League.

0 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Dinamo Zagreb have to build on here at Stadion Maksimir in the 1. HNL.

The Dinamo crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to Slaven Koprivnica here at Stadion Maksimir in a 1. HNL match. Rasmus Lauritsen was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.72 out of 10. The defender Lauritsen hit two key passes and won 9 of 10 duels.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Valur and winning 2-0.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Dinamo Zagreb home games with this odds we find ten games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in eight wins, two draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, four matches were won by at least two goals.

The manager D. Krznar will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Hrvatski Dragovoljac in only three days.

Dinamo Zagreb has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

W D W D W

Omonia Nicosia form and stats

Nicosia's mission in Champions League last season failed in the play-offs against Olympiakos Piraeus.

It could be a hat trick of victories away for Nicosia, as they have won on their previous two travels.

There were no winners in Omonia Nicosia's previous match, a 1. Division home game that ended 1-1 vs Apollon. As mentioned above, Nicosia drew the match against Apollon. Manager H. Berg brought on A. Kakoullis to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Apollon in the 1. Division.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Nicosia played away with similar odds. This revealed three games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, one were draw and the home team won as expected two times.

Head 2 Head

Dinamo Zagreb missing players

Omonia Nicosia missing players

Dinamo Zagreb Omonia Nicosia
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 13   Played P   14 25
17 10   Won W   9 16
4 1   Drew D   4 7
4 2   Lost L   1 2
55 28   Scored S   23 37
20 12   Conceded C   11 16
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   93% 92%
84% 69%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   64% 64%
48% 54%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   29% 24%
28% 31%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   14% 8%
20% 23%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   14% 8%
40% 38%   BTTS BTTS   43% 40%
48% 46%   Clean Sheets C S   50% 52%
12% 15%   Failed to Score F T   14% 16%
 
4.8 5.2   Corners for (avg) C F   4.7 4.6
4.2 3.2   Corners against (avg) C A   3.4 3.4
1.7 1.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.4 1.4
1 1   Red cards R C   2 2
 
13.4 15   Shots (avg) S (   9.2 9.4
5.7 5.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.1 4
38% 36%   Goal Efficiency G E   40% 37%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Osijek 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
2 Slaven Koprivnica 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 3
3 Gorica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Hajduk Split 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Hrvatski Dragovoljac 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Istra 1961 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Lokomotiva Zagreb 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Rijeka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Dinamo Zagreb 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
10 Sibenik 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 0

Read more about Champions League

The UEFA Champions League is the major international club football tournament in Europe. The competition begins already in late June and lasts for almost a year, ending with the final played in late May or early June. After several qualifying rounds the group stage is where the “true” Champions League begins for many viewers. Eight groups with four teams each battle through six rounds to qualify for the knock-out phase. Then a round of 16, quarterfinals and then semifinals needs to be won before a place in the final is secured.