First League match preview: Grbalj versus Sutjeska

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Competition: Montenegro First League
Date: Thu 05.December
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Donja Sutvara (1500 seats)

Struggling Grbalj will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Sutjeska in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

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.

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Grbalj form and stats

Grbalj's struggle is real here at Stadion Donja Sutvara with only 4 points collected from 7 First League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-4-3. All in all it has been a very rough period for Grbalj who hasn’t won a game in their last 14 attempts. Their previous win was against Rudar, 116 days ago. With seven home games in a row without a win, the Grbalj fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Iskra game long ago, can be stopped today.

Stress levels are on the rise for Grbalj's attacking players as they have now played 287 minutes without scoring in a league game. B. Đorđević was their last goal scorer.

In their previous game, the manager M. Vidojević led his Grbalj to a defeat in the First League match away at Mladost. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stadion Donja Sutvara. Heartbreak before that as Grbalj lost 0-2 at Zeta's place.

Grbalj are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 7 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 11 goals have been conceded.

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Sutjeska form and stats

4 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Sutjeska, who have the most scored goals (37) in First League, playing as the away team in the First League this season.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a First League home defeat versus Budućnost with 0-2 on the scoreboard. Preceding that game was the away victory against Petrovac with the score of 4-0.

Sutjeska have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 16 goals from 8 away matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far).

Head 2 Head

Sutjeska - Grbalj 5-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Grbalj 0 wins, 4 draws and Sutjeska 6 victories. As for goals, 3 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 7 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

SutjeskaM. Ćetković
M. Ćetković
6 goals
SutjeskaD. Kojašević
D. Kojašević
6 goals
GrbaljB. Đorđević
B. Đorđević
5 goals

Grbalj missing players

Sutjeska missing players

Grbalj Sutjeska
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 7 1 Played P 3 8 17
1 0 0 Won W 2 4 10
6 4 0 Drew D 1 3 4
9 3 1 Lost L 0 1 3
14 7 2 Scored S 9 16 37
28 11 3 Conceded C 1 6 14
94% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 94%
81% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 88%
38% 43% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 59%
31% 29% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 50% 35%
19% 14% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 18%
56% 71% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 38% 41%
6% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 50% 47%
44% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 18%
 
5 5 4 Corners For (avg) C F 4.7 4 4.6
5.2 4.7 9 Corners Against (avg) C A 4.3 3.9 3.6
1.9 2.1 4 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2 2
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 1 2
 
176 78 7 Total Shots T S 40 76 165
64 23 3 Shots on Target S O 19 34 79
22% 30% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 47% 47% 41%
Key stats in First League this season:
  • Grbalj has the fewest points (4) at home
  • Grbalj have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Grbalj have yet to win a game at home.
  • Sutjeska has the fewest conceded goals (6) away
  • Sutjeska has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2)
  • Sutjeska has the fewest matches under the total-line (1)
  • Sutjeska has the most scored goals (37)
  • Sutjeska has the most scored goals in the first half (16)
  • Sutjeska has the most scored goals in the second half (21)
  • Sutjeska has the the best goal difference (+10) away
  • Sutjeska has the the best goal difference (+23)
  • Sutjeska have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Sutjeska have scored more than double the goals of Grbalj.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Budućnost 16 11 2 3 34 18 8 6 1 1 16 9 8 5 1 2 18 9 16 35
2 Sutjeska 17 10 4 3 37 14 9 6 1 2 21 8 8 4 3 1 16 6 23 34
3 Iskra 17 9 5 3 23 16 9 5 2 2 13 8 8 4 3 1 10 8 7 32
4 Zeta 17 6 7 4 15 13 8 4 3 1 8 4 9 2 4 3 7 9 2 25
5 Mladost Ljeskopolje 17 6 6 5 22 18 9 4 4 1 14 8 8 2 2 4 8 10 4 24
6 Mladost 17 6 3 8 18 17 9 3 0 6 8 10 8 3 3 2 10 7 1 21
7 Rudar 17 5 3 9 19 35 9 4 2 3 15 16 8 1 1 6 4 19 -16 18
8 Petrovac 17 5 2 10 14 33 8 2 1 5 5 15 9 3 1 5 9 18 -19 17
9 Kom 17 3 6 8 24 28 8 2 4 2 14 10 9 1 2 6 10 18 -4 15
10 Grbalj 16 1 6 9 14 28 7 0 4 3 7 11 9 1 2 6 7 17 -14 9