This match has been long awaited by fans of both sides, as it's the first Fortuna Liga game of the season. Both Senica and Žilina are looking for a positive start to their campaigns.
Senica's stadium, OMS Arena, has a grass surface. Žilina have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Žilina when playing on grass; 20 wins, 5 draws and 9 losses from 34 matches. They have scored 55 goals in these games and conceded 34.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Senica form and stats
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Senica as they are travelling to their away game against Sered in the Fortuna Liga. That match is four days after this one.
Senica have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and nine practice matches played. These training games have ended with 6 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Senica scored 12 goals and let in 3 goals during these nine games.
Last season, Senica's league statistics were 6 wins, 6 draws and 10 losses, resulting in a 9th position in the Fortuna Liga. Over these 22 matches they scored 24 goals and conceded 33. Playing at home last season Senica managed 4-1-6 (win-draw-lost) with 14 goals and 16 conceded.
Žilina form and stats
A quick return to home after this game, as Žilina are hosting Nitra in the Fortuna Liga only three days away.
It's a day of discovery for Žilina as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Žilina have played four with the results W3-D1-L0 (win-draw-lost). In these games Žilina has scored 15 goals and conceded 6 times.
Let's have a look at how Žilina performed last season in the Fortuna Liga: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 13 victories, 6 draws and 3 defeats. In total they scored 38 and conceded 17 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 3 and lost 2 with 14/8 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between the teams: Senica won two, Žilina won seven and one draw. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.Senica missing players
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| Senica | Žilina | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Senica | Last season | Žilina | ||||
| Total | Home | |||||