International cups are a highlight for most teams. Both Trakai and Derry City are looking forward to this Europa League fight to decide who advances from the 1st Qualifying Round.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Premier Division game only four days ago.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Derry City have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 14-8-12 (win-draw-loss) from 34 matches.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2900 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Trakai form and stats
Last season their Europa League adventure ended in the 1st qualifying round.Trakai's results here at Vilniaus LFF stadionas in the A Lyga have been very modest with 0 victories, 2 draws and 6 defeats. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 14 attempts. Trakai are slowly digging their own grave here at Vilniaus LFF stadionas with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in eight attempts. The last victory here came in the Suduva match.
Trakai drew their last game, also a home match. Žalgiris was the opponent, 2-2 the score. Before that game, the home loss against Kauno Žalgiris with the scoreline 0-1.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Trakai here at Vilniaus LFF stadionas in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 8 games). As for conceded goals, Trakai's unpleasant statistic is 20 goals surrendered.
Derry City form and stats
They also participated in Europa League last season. This ended in the 1st qualifying round, when Dinamo Minsk drew the shortest straw.Playing away, Derry City have won 1 game, drawn 1 and suffered 2 defeats in the Premier Division this season.
Derry City had fun at their own home (Vilniaus LFF stadionas) last time out, beating Cork City 3-1. A. Hammill, Walter Figueira and J. Akintunde scored. A 1-1 draw at Shelbourne's stadium before that.
A new game in only three days for Derry City, the Premier Division home match versus St Patrick's. Busy days.
Derry have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 4 league away games 4 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Derry have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  W. Capango Figueira 3 goals |   D. Kazlauskas 2 goals | Á. Lezama Arteaga 2 goals |
Trakai missing players
Derry City missing players
| Trakai | Derry City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 28 | 17 | Scored | S | 11 | 42 | ||
| 42 | 26 | Conceded | C | 8 | 28 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 80% | ||
| 48% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 11% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | ||
| 48% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 56% | 52% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Clean Sheets | C S | 22% | 32% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Failed to Score | F T | 22% | 20% | ||
| 5 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.9 | 5 | ||
| 6.3 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 3.6 | ||
| 3.1 | 3.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1.6 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 236 | 148 | Total Shots | T S | 96 | 291 | ||
| 98 | 62 | Shots on Target | S O | 37 | 110 | ||
| 29% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 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 | Suduva | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 35 |
| 2 | Žalgiris | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 19 | 33 |
| 3 | Kauno Žalgiris | 16 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 26 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 31 |
| 4 | Banga | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 15 |
| 5 | Panevezys | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 32 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 19 | -18 | 9 |
| 6 | Trakai | 16 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 29 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -18 | 8 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Shamrock Rovers | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 23 |
| 2 | Bohemians | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 21 |
| 3 | Dundalk | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 4 | Sligo Rovers | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -3 | 12 |
| 5 | Derry City | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | St Patrick's | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 11 |
| 7 | Waterford United | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -2 | 11 |
| 8 | Shelbourne | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 11 |
| 9 | Cork City | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 13 | -10 | 7 |
| 10 | Finn Harps | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -10 | 4 |