The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Kauno Žalgiris are in the 3rd position while the guesting Trakai worry at 6th.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
It should be mentioned that Trakai play their home matches on grass, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on artifical turf. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Trakai on artifical turf are 6 victories, 5 draws and 2 defeats from 13 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 20-9. You can compare this with overall results below.
Kauno Žalgiris form and stats
Overall A Lyga stats at home this season for Kauno Žalgiris are 2-0-2 (wins-draw-losses).
The Kauno Žalgiris goalkeeper Deividas Mikelionis is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 180 minutes without conceding a goal in the A Lyga.
Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Banga.
As mentioned above, Žalgiris "killed" Sveikata in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
Žalgiris has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches. Kauno Žalgiris have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Trakai form and stats
1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Trakai playing as the away team in the A Lyga this season. Three has not been a lucky number for Trakai as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Banga match. Trakai has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Michael and D. Kazlauskas scored in Trakai's previous match, the home game against Banga that ended 2-0. Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Panevezys's place.
The visitors have scored 3 goals from 4 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Trakai have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Trakai - Žalgiris 0-3. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Kauno Žalgiris victories, three draws and three Trakai wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. David 3 goals | K. Šilkaitis 2 goals |
Kauno Žalgiris missing players
Trakai missing players
| Kauno Žalgiris | Trakai | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 13 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 4 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 67% |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 44% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 44% |
| 44% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 11% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 44% |
| 4.2 | 4.5 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 6.2 | 6.3 |
| 4.8 | 5 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 7.8 | 6.1 |
| 3.8 | 3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 4 | 3.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 85 | 40 | 14 | Total Shots | T S | 12 | 29 | 72 |
| 38 | 15 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 10 | 22 |
| 34% | 27% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 30% | 23% |
- Kauno Žalgiris has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1)
- Kauno Žalgiris have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Kauno Žalgiris have scored more than double the goals of Trakai.
- Kauno Žalgiris haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Trakai has the fewest scored goals (5)
- Trakai has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2)
- Trakai has the most conceded goals in the second half (13)
- Trakai has the most dropped points from leading position (4)
- Trakai has the the worst goal difference (-14)
- Trakai have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Trakai haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Trakai is in the worst form (0-2-4)
| 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 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 22 |
| 2 | Zalgiris | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 17 |
| 3 | Kauno Žalgiris | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | Banga | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 9 |
| 5 | Panevezys | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 | -13 | 7 |
| 6 | Trakai | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -14 | 5 |