There's no exiting this stadium without a winner tonight as it's the second leg of the Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round meeting between Omonia Nicosia and Dinamo Zagreb. Game on!
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a 1. HNL game only four days ago. That game was also an away game, at Hrvatski Dragovoljac. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2300 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Omonia Nicosia form and stats
Nicosia was eliminated in the play-offs last season in the Champions League. Olympiakos Piraeus was too strong.The Omonia Nicosia fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Neo GSP and will expect new points from this game. Omonia Nicosia has played 19 games in a row here without a defeat.
Nicosia lost their last game at Dinamo Zagreb after a 0-2 scoreline.
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Apollon that ended 1-1.Dinamo Zagreb form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Valur in order to reach 2nd qualifying round of Champions League. Dinamo's mission in Champions League last season failed in the 3rd qualifying round.The visitors are W1-D0-L0 on the road this term. That's in the 1. HNL. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Champions League stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses both home and away. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Osijek game have they lost an away game, meaning Dinamo has taken points from 13 away matches in a row.
Two travels in a row for Dinamo Zagreb, whose manager D. Krznar could celebrate last time after the 1. HNL win against Hrvatski Dragovoljac. L. Majer got a match rating of 10.0 in that game, top player of the team. Majer scored two goals, hit three key passes and had 57 successful passes (of 64 total). As you can tell from the results above, Dinamo was very dominant against Hrvatski Dragovoljac, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 4-0 (!) with L. Majer (2), M. Gavranović and J. Šutalo providing the goals.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Omonia Nicosia in the Champions League.It's early days yet, but Dinamo Zagreb has scored 4 and conceded 0 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Dinamo Zagreb - Omonia Nicosia 2-0.Top Goalscorers
  L. Majer 2 goals |  M. Gavranović 1 goals |
Omonia Nicosia missing players
Dinamo Zagreb missing players
| Omonia Nicosia | Dinamo Zagreb | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 6 | Won | W | 7 | 18 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | ||
| 35 | 12 | Scored | S | 26 | 56 | ||
| 17 | 4 | Conceded | C | 6 | 18 | ||
| 92% | 90% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 64% | 60% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 84% | ||
| 20% | 10% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 48% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 28% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 16% | ||
| 36% | 30% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 40% | ||
| 52% | 60% | Clean Sheets | C S | 55% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | ||
| 4.5 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 5.5 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 3.8 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 9.7 | 9.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.1 | 13.7 | ||
| 4 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 5.8 | ||
| 35% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 38% | ||
| 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 | Dinamo Zagreb | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Istra 1961 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Rijeka | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Slaven Koprivnica | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Hajduk Split | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Lokomotiva Zagreb | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Gorica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 9 | Sibenik | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 10 | Hrvatski Dragovoljac | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -6 | 0 |