Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Slovan Bratislava welcomes Trenčín

Bratislava have less rest than Trenčín in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Slovakia Cup game only three days ago. That game was an away game at Žilina, so at least Bratislava are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Trenčín have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 11-9-19 (win-draw-loss) from 39 matches.

Slovan Bratislava form and stats

Slovan Bratislava, who have the most scored goals (54) in Fortuna Liga, have been outstanding at home so far in the Fortuna Liga with 10 wins, 0 draws and only 1 loss. The Bratislava manager D. Milanič might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.

A good away victory last time out for Slovan Bratislava, who won 2-1 against Žilina (after extra-time). Slovan Bratislava made it very difficult for themselves, when V. Weiss got a red card in the 111st minute. The match was still a draw at this point. But even with this card, Bratislava won the match 2-1! Manager D. Milanič felt very clever after V. Weiss scored the winning goal against Žilina (after extra-time), having brought on that player as a substitute in the 46th minute. A late climax in the match against Žilina (after extra-time) as the winning goal came four minutes into overtime; scored by V. Weiss.

In the game before, an away victory in the Fortuna Liga match versus Zlaté Moravce with a 4-0 scoreline.

Slovan Bratislava are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Štadión Tehelné pole in their league games, having scored an impressive 28 goals in 11 matches. Defensively Slovan Bratislava have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (5 in 11 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

Trenčín form and stats

3 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Trenčín playing as the away team in the Fortuna Liga this season. Bitter travels for Trenčín as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Pohronie match.

Trenčín delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against DAC in their previous match; a Fortuna Liga game. As mentioned above, Trenčín drew the match against DAC. Manager S. Vreven brought on M. Corryn to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.

Preceding that game, the 3-5 loss visiting Žilina's place.

With the home team given a winning probability of about 80% by the bookmakers, any positive result for the visitors would be a surprise. Checking earlier matches with similar odds with Trenčín as the away team, we found two results. Statistics from these were zero away wins, zero draws and two defeats. The outsiders lost two of these games by at least two goals.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Trenčín have scored 11 goals in 11 league games away. Trenčín have conceded 21 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Trenčín - Bratislava 2-6. Slovan Bratislava-Trenčín H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Slovan Bratislava seven wins, Trenčín one win, two draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

R. da Silva 14 goals

D. Holman 9 goals

D. Strelec 9 goals

Slovan Bratislava missing players

Trenčín missing players