Prva Liga preview of Kabel Novi Sad - Zlatibor Čajetina: Visitors believed to win

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Competition: Serbia Prva Liga
Competition: Mon 02.May
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion FK Kabel (2000 seats)

This game stars two squads residing in the lower section of the Prva Liga, Kabel Novi Sad having 16th spot and Zlatibor Čajetina lying 13th. A nice chance for one of the participants to better their position.

Insights:
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the fewest scored goals (12) in Prva Liga
  • Zlatibor Čajetina have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Prva Liga

Kabel have had a bad season and will be relegated from Prva Liga. For Zlatibor Čajetina it's their last days at this level as relegation is a fact.

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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Kabel Novi Sad form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Prva Liga this season. Kabel Novi Sad have only managed 0 wins, 5 draws and 10 losses from their games here at Stadion FK Kabel.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 227 minutes without scoring a league goal. Lučić was the last player to find the net.

Kabel Novi Sad experienced an unexpected loss 0-1 against Zlatibor Čajetina in their previous outing, also played in front of their own fans.

Heartbreak before that as Kabel Novi Sad lost 0-2 at Rad Beograd's place.

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 Kabel had similar winning odds as today, and found eight games. In these, the hosts won one, drew zero and lost seven. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Kabel Novi Sad lost four similar games by at least two goals.

Kabel Novi Sad have scored 5 goals here in 15 league matches, a depressing statistic. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Kabel Novi Sad with 32 goals conceded in these matches.

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Zlatibor Čajetina form and stats

Zlatibor Čajetina have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Prva Liga, after 2-4-9 (15 played). Zlatibor Čajetina has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Zlatibor play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Kabel Novi Sad.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Macva Sabac at their stadium, the result 3-1.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Zlatibor Čajetina as they have only managed to score 11 times from 15 away games in the league. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Zlatibor Čajetina have conceded 25 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is what happened when the participants faced each other earlier this campaign; Kabel - Zlatibor Čajetina 0-1. Head-2-head stats last five meetings: zero - three - two (Kabel Novi Sad wins - draws - Zlatibor Čajetina wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Zlatibor ČajetinaL. Čumić
L. Čumić
7 goals
Zlatibor ČajetinaD. Radosavljević
D. Radosavljević
6 goals
KabelS. Njemčević
S. Njemčević
3 goals

Kabel Novi Sad missing players

Zlatibor Čajetina missing players

Kabel Novi Sad Zlatibor Čajetina
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
34 17 4 Played P 5 18 34
2 1 0 Won W 1 4 10
6 5 2 Drew D 2 5 11
26 11 2 Lost L 2 9 13
14 7 1 Scored S 5 16 33
80 34 7 Conceded C 7 27 40
91% 88% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 79%
76% 76% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 61% 56%
56% 59% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 39% 35%
29% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 28% 21%
18% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 15%
29% 35% 25% BTTS BTTS 80% 56% 35%
9% 12% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 38%
71% 65% 75% Failed to Score F T 20% 39% 47%
 
2.6 2.7 2.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4 4.2
5.5 5.6 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5 6.1 6
2.6 2.4 3.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.6 3.2 2.7
7 5 2 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
5.2 5.2 5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.4 8.5 8.4
1.9 1.5 1.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 3.3 3.3
23% 27% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 29% 31%
 
13.2 12.4 8.8 Shots against (avg) S A 13.4 11.2 10.8
6.1 5.6 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.6 4.7 4.4
Key stats in Prva Liga this season:
  • Kabel Novi Sad have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Kabel Novi Sad have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Kabel Novi Sad have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the fewest clean sheets (2) at home in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the fewest points (5) at home in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the fewest scored goals (12) in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the fewest scored goals (5) at home in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the fewest scored goals in the first half (10) in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the most conceded goals (32) at home in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the most conceded goals (71) in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the most conceded goals in the first half (38) in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the most conceded goals in the second half (42) in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the the worst goal difference (-27) at home in Prva Liga
  • Kabel Novi Sad have the the worst goal difference (-59) in Prva Liga
  • Zlatibor Čajetina have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Zlatibor Čajetina have scored more than double the goals of Kabel Novi Sad.
  • Zlatibor Čajetina have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Prva Liga

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Inđija 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 Macva Sabac 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.