Prva Liga: Grafičar - Rad Beograd pre-match thoughts and statistics

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Competition: Serbia Prva Liga
Competition: Sun 08.May
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Rajko Mitić - Jug veštačka trava (1000 seats)

Most people believe in Grafičar in this match versus Rad Beograd, but the away side will battle to the end. Here's our complete match guide!

Insights:
  • Grafičar have the most scored goals in the first half (31) in Prva Liga
  • Grafičar have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Rad Beograd have scored away.

Grafičar can neither be promoted or relegated from Prva Liga. For Beograd most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

This is a local derby, usually meaning increased motivation and importance.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Grafičar form and stats

8-3-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Prva Liga numbers at home for Grafičar so far this season. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Grafičar after consecutive victories at their own ground.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Strahinja Manojlovic not having conceded a league goal in 200 minutes.

A good away victory last time out for Grafičar, who won 2-0 against Budućnost Dobanovci.

Before that, Grafičar had a home game versus Timok which ended with a victory 2-0.

On the other hand, Grafičar have conceded 17 goals.

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Rad Beograd form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Rad Beograd so far with only 13 points returning home. The records show 3-4-8 (win-draw-lose). It could be a hat trick of victories away for Rad Beograd, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Rad Beograd's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Mačva Šabac that finished 1-1.

A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Kabel Novi Sad.

The attacking power of Beograd when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 15 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 17 goals have been conceded by Rad Beograd in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The previous H2H encounter ended Grafičar - Rad Beograd 3-1, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Grafičar one win, one draw and Rad Beograd one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Rad BeogradL. Gojković
L. Gojković
10 goals
GrafičarJ. Mituljikić
J. Mituljikić
7 goals
GrafičarB. Burmaz
B. Burmaz
7 goals

Grafičar missing players

Rad Beograd missing players

Grafičar Rad Beograd
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
34 17 7 Played P 4 16 34
13 10 6 Won W 1 4 12
5 3 1 Drew D 2 4 9
16 4 0 Lost L 1 8 13
54 37 23 Scored S 1 11 36
46 17 4 Conceded C 4 17 35
91% 94% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 81% 88%
82% 94% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 25% 50% 62%
62% 71% 71% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 31% 32%
32% 41% 71% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 12% 15%
15% 12% 29% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
41% 47% 43% BTTS BTTS 0% 19% 35%
32% 41% 57% Clean Sheets C S 75% 44% 38%
35% 18% 0% Failed to Score F T 75% 56% 38%
 
4.6 4.9 4.8 Corners for (avg) C F 5 3.9 4.8
4.1 3.2 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 2.5 3.1 3.5
2.3 1.7 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.2 2.2
3 2 2 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.8 11.7 12.2 Shots (avg) S ( 10 9.1 10.2
4.4 5.1 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 3.1 4.1
34% 39% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 22% 26%
 
9.8 8.9 9.5 Shots against (avg) S A 7.8 7.4 7.8
4.6 3.9 3.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.5 2.8 3.1
Key stats in Prva Liga this season:
  • Grafičar have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Grafičar have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Grafičar have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Rad Beograd have scored away.
  • Grafičar have the fewest matches under the total-line (9) in Prva Liga
  • Grafičar have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Prva Liga
  • Grafičar have the most scored goals (30) at home in Prva Liga
  • Grafičar have the most scored goals in the first half (31) in Prva Liga
  • Rad Beograd have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Inija 30 17 7 6 48 29 15 9 3 3 26 15 15 8 4 3 22 14 19 58
2 Mladost Novi Sad 30 16 9 5 35 17 15 9 3 3 22 10 15 7 6 2 13 7 18 57
3 Javor Ivanjica 30 15 11 4 46 22 15 9 3 3 27 12 15 6 8 1 19 10 24 56
4 Železničar Pančevo 30 15 7 8 42 31 15 8 4 3 21 13 15 7 3 5 21 18 11 52
5 IMT Novi Beograd 30 13 10 7 49 30 15 7 5 3 28 11 15 6 5 4 21 19 19 49
6 Radnički Sr. Mitrovica 30 13 7 10 39 29 15 7 3 5 22 16 15 6 4 5 17 13 10 46
7 Žarkovo 30 12 6 12 35 32 15 6 3 6 16 16 15 6 3 6 19 16 3 42
8 Loznica 30 11 8 11 29 26 15 8 3 4 21 11 15 3 5 7 8 15 3 41
9 Mačva Šabac 30 10 9 11 26 37 15 7 3 5 15 14 15 3 6 6 11 23 -11 39
10 Grafičar 30 10 5 15 44 43 15 8 3 4 30 17 15 2 2 11 14 26 1 35
11 Rad Beograd 30 9 8 13 28 34 15 6 4 5 20 17 15 3 4 8 8 17 -6 35
12 Budućnost Dobanovci 30 9 8 13 30 41 15 5 5 5 15 16 15 4 3 8 15 25 -11 35
13 Zlatibor Čajetina 30 8 10 12 28 35 15 6 6 3 17 10 15 2 4 9 11 25 -7 34
14 Timok 30 9 6 15 29 35 15 3 5 7 13 12 15 6 1 8 16 23 -6 33
15 Backa Palanka 30 6 15 9 22 30 15 3 8 4 11 11 15 3 7 5 11 19 -8 33
16 Kabel Novi Sad 30 1 6 23 12 71 15 0 5 10 5 32 15 1 1 13 7 39 -59 9

Read more about Prva Liga

The Serbian First League (or Prva Liga Srbije or just PLS) is the second highest football league in Serbia. It has 16 teams playing each other home and away, making 30 fixtures in the regular season. After this the league table splits in two, the championship round and the relegation round.