National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's KF Ballkani or Prishtina that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for KF Ballkani and Prishtina.
KF Ballkani form and stats
KF Ballkani was eliminated in the 8th finals last season in the Kosovar Cup.32 points is a decent return from 13 Superliga games here at Stadiumi i qytetit Suharekë for KF Ballkani. The data says 10 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.
The Ballkani fans enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host KF Feronikeli and win 6-0.
Prior to that, an away loss at Malisheva in the Superliga.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does KF Ballkani handle that role? We have found six games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, one draw and zero defeats.
Goals decide football matches and KF Ballkani are scoring many of them at home; 30 on target from 13 league matches. From these home matches, KF Ballkani have conceded only 8 goals.
Prishtina form and stats
They also participated in Kosovar Cup last season. This ended in the semi-finals, when KF Llapi drew the shortest straw.4-4-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Prishtina in their Superliga matches away.
Prishtina have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper. It's been 226 minutes since they last conceded in Superliga.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 2-0 against Ulpiana in their previous game.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus KF Feronikeli at their stadium, the result 3-0.Prishtina find the net regularly in their away games. 19 goals from 13 away fixtures in the league. Prishtina have conceded 14 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head to head statistics (for the preceeding ten meetings): KF Ballkani won five games, two matches ended in a draw and Prishtina managed three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / sixKF Ballkani missing players
Prishtina missing players
| KF Ballkani | Prishtina | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 11 | Won | W | 5 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 40 | 27 | Scored | S | 22 | 35 | ||
| 15 | 4 | Conceded | C | 16 | 26 | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 80% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 4% | ||
| 28% | 15% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 40% | ||
| 64% | 77% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 28% | ||
| 4.8 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 5.3 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.2 | 3.7 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2.2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 14 | 17.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.5 | 8.2 | ||
| 5.2 | 6.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.3 | ||
| 25% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 36% | ||
| 7 | 6.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5.7 | 7.1 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1.8 | 2.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | KF Ballkani | 25 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 39 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 22 | 51 |
| 2 | Gjilani | 25 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 35 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 48 |
| 3 | Drita | 25 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 34 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 17 | 43 |
| 4 | KF Llapi | 25 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 42 | 29 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 41 |
| 5 | Prishtina | 25 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 31 | 25 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 32 |
| 6 | Malisheva | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 32 | 30 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 2 | 32 |
| 7 | Drenica | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 33 | 34 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 18 | -1 | 32 |
| 8 | Dukagjini | 25 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 22 | 29 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -7 | 26 |
| 9 | Ulpiana | 25 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 22 | 42 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 22 | -20 | 23 |
| 10 | KF Feronikeli | 25 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 56 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 34 | -47 | 11 |