A home win is expected from this fixture if the league table is anything to judge by. The Žilina fans are optimistic that the difference between 3rd and Pohronie's 11th place in the table will show on the pitch.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
1 - 1 - 3 with 4-10. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Pohronie when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Pohronie play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Žilina form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Štadión Pod Dubňom as Žilina have scored 20 goals to get 16 points from 7 games. The overall stats in the Fortuna Liga are 5-1-1 (wins-draws-losses). Žilina has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Štadión Pod Dubňom. We remember; it was Slovan Bratislava.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 235 minutes.
Žilina's last game was hosting Trencin (placed 12th) and winning 2-0. Before that match, a win away at Nitra.
Žilina are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Štadión Pod Dubňom in their league games, having scored an impressive 20 goals in 7 matches. Žilina have conceded 9 in these home matches.
Pohronie form and stats
There's been little loot from Pohronie's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 7 away games in the Fortuna Liga. Pohronie only have 0 wins to counter their 2 defeats and 5 draws. Pohronie are desperate to end a ten-game winless run, as they haven't won a game since the Žilina fixture. Two points from the last two away games for Pohronie, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
Pohronie played 3-3 against Spartak Trnava in their previous match. Before that, Pohronie travelled to DAC and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Spartak Trnava was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? The draw against Spartak Trnava came from a losing position. The Pohronie manager M. Radványi brought on B. Bimenyimana as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.
The attacking power of Pohronie when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored from 7 league matches away. Pohronie have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Pohronie - Žilina 2-1. Head-2-head stats last four meetings: two - one - one (Žilina wins - draws - Pohronie wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Žilina missing players
Pohronie missing players
| Žilina | Pohronie | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 8 | 5 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 35 | 20 | 11 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 17 |
| 22 | 9 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 9 | 23 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 71% | 86% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 71% | 86% |
| 93% | 86% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 29% | 64% |
| 57% | 57% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 36% |
| 29% | 29% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 71% | 86% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 57% | 79% |
| 21% | 14% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 29% | 14% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 43% | 21% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.9 | 2.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 179 | 92 | 42 | Total Shots | T S | 20 | 66 | 138 |
| 92 | 54 | 24 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 29 | 65 |
| 38% | 37% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 17% | 26% |
- All of Žilina's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Pohronie have yet to win a game away.
- Žilina have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Žilina have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Žilina have scored more than double the goals of Pohronie.
- Žilina haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Žilina is in the best form (5-0-1)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Slovan Bratislava | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 25 | 32 |
| 2 | DAC | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 20 | 32 |
| 3 | Žilina | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 35 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 25 |
| 4 | Spartak Trnava | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 20 |
| 5 | Zlaté Moravce | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 19 |
| 6 | Nitra | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -9 | 18 |
| 7 | Ružomberok | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 16 | -4 | 17 |
| 8 | Sered | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 16 | -6 | 15 |
| 9 | Senica | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -11 | 15 |
| 10 | Zemplín Michalovce | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 21 | -19 | 12 |
| 11 | Pohronie | 14 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 11 |
| 12 | Trencin | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 | -12 | 11 |