Palanga supporters should be happy with one point when Sūduva comes to town

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Competition: Lithuania A Lyga
Date: Sat 12.October
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Centrinis miesto stadionas (2000 seats)

Struggling Palanga will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Sūduva in the upcoming league round. It’s 8th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Palanga and Sūduva should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Palanga form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the A Lyga this season. Palanga, who have the most conceded goals (66) in A Lyga, have only managed 3 wins, 1 draw and 9 losses from their games here at Centrinis miesto stadionas. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here at Centrinis miesto stadionas, with the home team losing four in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Stumbras game. Regardless of arena the trend is looking very unhealthy for Palanga with their six defeats in a row. Not since the Stumbras game, 62 days ago, have they avoided a loss.

In their previous game, the manager A. Briaunys led his Palanga to a defeat in the A Lyga match away at Sūduva. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Centrinis miesto stadionas. Preceding that match was a defeat to Trakai (1-3).

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Palanga had similar winning odds as today, and found four games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 1 and lost 3. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Palanga lost 3 similar games by at least two goals.

Palanga has scored 14 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. Palanga have conceded 29 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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Sūduva form and stats

Sūduva, who have the most scored goals (64) in A Lyga, have an excellent away record in the A Lyga so far with 9-0-2 from 11 games. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Zalgiris game have they lost an away game, meaning Sūduva has taken points from eight away matches in a row. Sūduva have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of nine victories in a row regardless of arena.

Sūduva are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the A Lyga against Panevezys (placed 5th). Before that, Sūduva secured a home win against Palanga with the score 5-0.

As mentioned earlier, Sūduva will not be satisfied unless they get maximum points from this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 6 wins (6 by two or more goals winning margin), 0 draws and 0 surprising defeats.

The schedule is very tough for Sūduva now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A A Lyga game at Trakai is waiting in only three days.

Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 30 goals in 11 league games away this season. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Sūduva - Palanga 5-0 entered in the official records. Head-to-head totals (for the last eight meetings): Palanga won 0 games, 0 matches ended with a draw and Sūduva has 8 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 4 / 4

Top Goalscorers

M. Topcagić
10 goals / 1 assists
E. Jankauskas
6 goals
P. Golubickas
6 goals

Palanga missing players

Sūduva missing players

Palanga Sūduva
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs low Away Total
25 13 2 Played P 4 11 24
4 3 0 Won W 3 9 21
1 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
20 9 2 Lost L 1 2 3
25 14 1 Scored S 12 30 64
66 29 8 Conceded C 2 7 13
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
96% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 88%
84% 77% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 64% 71%
48% 38% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 27% 29%
24% 15% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 18% 17%
60% 62% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 27% 33%
8% 8% 0% Clean Sheets C S 75% 55% 58%
32% 31% 50% Failed to Score F T 25% 18% 8%
 
3.3 4 2 Corners For (avg) C F 7 6.5 6.7
6.8 7 6.5 Corners Against (avg) C A 2.3 3.7 3.3
1.7 1.7 1 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.3 1.6
1 0 0 Red Cards R C 1 1 1
Key stats This season:
  • All of Palanga's home matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Palanga have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Palanga have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Palanga have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Palanga haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sūduva have created more than twice as many corners as Palanga.
  • Sūduva have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Sūduva have scored more than double the goals of Palanga.
  • Sūduva have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Sūduva haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Palanga
12-08-19 AL Panevezys 3 - 1 Palanga
25-08-19 AL Palanga 0 - 2 Atlantas
28-08-19 LC Džiugas Telšiai 1 - 1 Palanga
31-08-19 AL Palanga 0 - 4 Zalgiris
14-09-19 AL Palanga 2 - 3 Kauno Zalgiris
18-09-19 LC Banga 2 - 0 Palanga
25-09-19 AL Palanga 1 - 3 Trakai
02-10-19 AL Sūduva 5 - 0 Palanga
12-10-19 AL Palanga 12:00 Sūduva
26-10-19 AL Atlantas 10:00 Palanga
Sūduva
21-09-19 AL Kauno Zalgiris 0 - 2 Sūduva
24-09-19 AL Panevezys 2 - 7 Sūduva
25-09-19 AL Stumbras 0 - 3 Sūduva
29-09-19 LC Banga 0 - 4 Sūduva
02-10-19 AL Sūduva 5 - 0 Palanga
05-10-19 AL Sūduva 3 - 1 Panevezys
12-10-19 AL Palanga 12:00 Sūduva
15-10-19 AL Trakai 16:30 Sūduva
20-10-19 AL Zalgiris 16:00 Sūduva
26-10-19 AL Sūduva 10:00 Zalgiris

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Sūduva 24 21 0 3 64 13 13 12 0 1 34 6 11 9 0 2 30 7 51 63
2 Žalgiris 25 20 2 3 63 18 12 11 1 0 34 8 13 9 1 3 29 10 45 62
3 Trakai 25 12 6 7 39 27 11 5 5 1 13 6 14 7 1 6 26 21 12 42
4 Kauno Žalgiris 26 12 4 10 45 39 13 8 1 4 29 19 13 4 3 6 16 20 6 40
5 Panevėžys 26 8 6 12 40 48 13 5 3 5 25 26 13 3 3 7 15 22 -8 30
6 Atlantas 26 7 4 15 25 51 13 5 2 6 15 24 13 2 2 9 10 27 -26 25
7 Stumbras 25 4 3 18 12 51 13 4 0 9 6 25 12 0 3 9 6 26 -39 15
8 Palanga 25 4 1 20 25 66 13 3 1 9 14 29 12 1 0 11 11 37 -41 13