First League match prediction and preview for Borec vs Struga clash

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Competition: Macedonia FYR First League
Competition: Wed 02.December
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Ciglana (2000 seats)

Borec will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 1 point behind Struga.

Insights:
  • Struga has the fewest conceded goals (10) in First League

It's no vacation for neither Borec nor Struga as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Borec form and stats

The story so far in the First League for Borec at their home stadium (Stadion Ciglana) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

D. Desnikj was the last player to score a league goal for Borec and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Borec haven't scored in 185 minutes.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Vardar (0-2).

The defeat against Renova was especially painful as the deciding goal against was scored one minutes into stoppage time (by R. Selmani).

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Skendija 79 are coming to town in four days.

Borec has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Borec are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadion Ciglana in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.

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Struga form and stats

Struga, who have the fewest conceded goals (10) in First League, have only collected 3 points from their away games in the First League, after 0-3-3 (6 played).

A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Renova.

After this away game Struga return home for a First League game against Akademija Pandev. That game is only four sleeps after this.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Struga's away games in the league this season with only 2 goals from 6 matches. As opposed to that, Struga have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Struga - Borec 1-0. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's one Borec victory, two draws and two Struga wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

StrugaN. Lena
N. Lena
5 goals
BorecM. Ristovski
M. Ristovski
3 goals
BorecG. Gjorgjiev
G. Gjorgjiev
2 goals

Borec missing players

Struga missing players

Borec Struga
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 6 1 Played P 1 6 13
5 3 1 Won W 0 0 5
4 2 0 Drew D 1 3 5
4 1 0 Lost L 0 3 3
14 8 2 Scored S 1 2 14
13 4 1 Conceded C 1 7 10
92% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 92%
69% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 69%
38% 33% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 15%
8% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 8%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
38% 33% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 33% 31%
31% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 46%
38% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 67% 31%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.6 2.5 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.8 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.5 12 14 Shots (avg) S ( 6 9 10.2
4.5 5 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.3 3.8
24% 27% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 10% 29%
Key stats in First League this season:
  • Borec have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Struga have scored away.
  • Struga has the fewest conceded goals (10) in First League
  • Struga has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in First League
  • Struga has the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in First League
  • Struga has the most matches under the total-line (10) in First League
  • Struga have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Struga have yet to win a game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Skendija 79 13 7 6 0 26 11 6 2 4 0 8 5 7 5 2 0 18 6 15 27
2 Makedonija 13 8 2 3 22 12 7 5 1 1 11 5 6 3 1 2 11 7 10 26
3 Shkupi 13 7 4 2 20 12 6 5 1 0 14 6 7 2 3 2 6 6 8 25
4 Struga 13 5 5 3 14 10 7 5 2 0 12 3 6 0 3 3 2 7 4 20
5 Borec 13 5 4 4 14 13 6 3 2 1 8 4 7 2 2 3 6 9 1 19
6 Vardar 13 5 4 4 18 20 7 3 1 3 10 14 6 2 3 1 8 6 -2 19
7 Sileks 13 5 2 6 23 18 6 2 1 3 10 12 7 3 1 3 13 6 5 17
8 Rabotnicki 13 2 8 3 15 16 6 1 4 1 7 7 7 1 4 2 8 9 -1 14
9 Pelister 13 2 6 5 11 16 7 1 4 2 5 7 6 1 2 3 6 9 -5 12
10 Renova 13 2 5 6 14 20 7 2 2 3 5 7 6 0 3 3 9 13 -6 11
11 Akademija Pandev 13 3 1 9 8 18 6 3 0 3 6 6 7 0 1 6 2 12 -10 10
12 Belasica 13 2 3 8 10 29 7 0 3 4 5 18 6 2 0 4 5 11 -19 9