Prva Liga duel: Close contest expected between Rad Beograd and Železničar Pančevo

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Competition: Serbia Prva Liga
Competition: Sun 27.March
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Kralj Petar Prvi (6000 seats)

Straining Rad Beograd are eager to pull off a small shock when they welcome top side Železničar Pančevo in the next league round. It’s 14th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Rad Beograd have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Železničar Pančevo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

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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Rad Beograd form and stats

Rad Beograd have collected 19 points from their Prva Liga home games so far after 5-4-4. When Rad Beograd hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Mladost Novi Sad, Javor Ivanjica, IMT Novi Beograd and Inđija), they have won 2 of 4 matches!

and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Rad Beograd haven't scored in 386 minutes.

The home followers saw a 0-0 draw versus Železničar Pančevo last time out and are looking for a win here.

A 0-0 draw away before that, with Budućnost Dobanovci the opponent.

This is expected to be a close game, with Rad Beograd perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Rad Beograd as a small favourite), we find eight games. Rad Beograd has won four of these, drawn three and lost one.

Beograd has scored 19 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Rad Beograd's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Železničar Pančevo form and stats

5 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Železničar Pančevo playing as the away team in the Prva Liga this season.

The Železničar Pančevo goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 396 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Železničar has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Rad Beograd for a 0-0 draw.

Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Loznica.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Železničar Pančevo in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Železničar Pančevo, one draw and five defeats.

The visiting Železničar Pančevo have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 17 goals from 13 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Železničar Pančevo have seen the ball go into their own net 17 times on the road. More than 50 % of these were let in from the 60th minute and onwards in these in the last 30 minutes of matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams involved faced each other earlier on this campaign: Železničar Pančevo - Beograd 2-1.

Top Goalscorers

Železničar PančevoL. Milošev
L. Milošev
10 goals
Železničar PančevoB. Ilić
B. Ilić
7 goals
Rad BeogradL. Gojković
L. Gojković
5 goals

Rad Beograd missing players

Železničar Pančevo missing players

Rad Beograd Železničar Pančevo
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
28 14 4 Played P 5 14 28
7 5 2 Won W 3 5 13
9 5 1 Drew D 1 4 8
12 4 1 Lost L 1 5 7
24 19 6 Scored S 7 17 37
33 16 3 Conceded C 4 17 27
82% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 86%
57% 71% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 64% 64%
32% 43% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 57% 50%
18% 21% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 21% 18%
7% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 7%
39% 57% 25% BTTS BTTS 20% 43% 43%
32% 29% 50% Clean Sheets C S 60% 43% 50%
46% 29% 25% Failed to Score F T 20% 29% 21%
 
4.7 5.8 5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.2 5.1
3.7 4.2 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 2.2 3.2 3.3
2.4 2.4 2.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.4 2.5 2.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10 10.9 9.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 6.9 8.3
4 5.2 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.8 3.6
22% 28% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 47% 46% 39%
 
8.1 8.5 6.8 Shots against (avg) S A 5.2 7.8 7.8
3.3 3.6 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.2 3.5 3
Key stats in Prva Liga this season:
  • Rad Beograd have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Rad Beograd have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Železničar Pančevo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Železničar Pančevo 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 Mladost Novi Sad 27 15 8 4 32 15 14 8 3 3 20 10 13 7 5 1 12 5 17 53
2 Inđija 27 15 7 5 44 25 13 8 3 2 23 11 14 7 4 3 21 14 19 52
3 Železničar Pančevo 27 13 7 7 37 27 14 8 4 2 20 10 13 5 3 5 17 17 10 46
4 Javor Ivanjica 26 11 11 4 36 20 12 6 3 3 20 11 14 5 8 1 16 9 16 44
5 IMT Novi Beograd 26 11 9 6 37 24 14 6 5 3 22 10 12 5 4 3 15 14 13 42
6 Žarkovo 27 12 4 11 32 27 13 6 1 6 13 13 14 6 3 5 19 14 5 40
7 Radnicki Sr. Mitrovica 27 11 6 10 35 27 13 6 2 5 20 15 14 5 4 5 15 12 8 39
8 Loznica 27 10 8 9 26 22 13 7 3 3 18 8 14 3 5 6 8 14 4 38
9 Mačva Šabac 27 10 7 10 25 31 13 7 1 5 15 14 14 3 6 5 10 17 -6 37
10 Budućnost Dobanovci 27 9 7 11 28 37 14 5 5 4 15 15 13 4 2 7 13 22 -9 34
11 Zlatibor Cajetina 26 8 9 9 27 28 14 6 5 3 17 10 12 2 4 6 10 18 -1 33
12 Graficar 26 9 4 13 38 38 13 7 3 3 24 13 13 2 1 10 14 25 0 31
13 Backa Palanka 26 6 12 8 21 28 13 3 7 3 11 10 13 3 5 5 10 18 -7 30
14 Rad Beograd 27 7 8 12 24 33 13 5 4 4 19 16 14 2 4 8 5 17 -9 29
15 Timok 27 7 5 15 27 35 14 2 5 7 12 12 13 5 0 8 15 23 -8 26
16 Kabel Novi Sad 28 1 6 21 12 64 14 0 5 9 5 29 14 1 1 12 7 35 -52 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.