It's no vacation for neither Žilina nor Nitra as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

Žilina's stadium, Štadión Pod Dubňom, has a artifical turf surface. Nitra have grass 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 Nitra when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses from five matches. They have scored 4 goals in these games and conceded 12.

Žilina form and stats

The Žilina goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 192 minutes without conceding a goal in the Fortuna Liga.

Happy days for Žilina in their previous game, a Fortuna Liga match away at Senica (placed 11th) that ended with a 4-0 victory. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Zemplín Michalovce in a game that was won 5-0.

As mentioned above, Žilina "killed" Senica in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.

Žilina are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found seven matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won four, drew two and lost one.

The manager P. Stano will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Trencin in only four days.

Last season, Žilina's league statistics were 13 wins, 6 draws and 3 losses, resulting in a 2nd position in the Fortuna Liga. Over these 22 matches they scored 38 goals and conceded 17. Playing at home last season Žilina managed 7-3-1 (win-draw-lost) with 24 goals and 9 conceded.

Nitra form and stats

Nitra failed to get anything from their last game, a Fortuna Liga home match vs Slovan Bratislava (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 0-5. A 0-2 loss hosting Pohronie before that.

Nitra lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-5 beating and focus on this one.

You'll want to know how Nitra managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found three similar matches resulting in zero away wins, one draw and two home wins.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Nitra manager G. Geri as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against DAC.

Let's have a look at how Nitra performed last season in the Tipsport Liga: They landed a 11th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 4 draws and 13 defeats. In total they scored 17 and conceded 31 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 1 and lost 7 with 9/16 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

Last ten meetings between the teams: Žilina won seven, Nitra won one and two draws. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Žilina missing players

Nitra missing players