Žilina will want to employ their home advantage to help in closing the gap to today’s adversaries. The team playing at home are currently 11 points behind Ružomberok.
- Žilina have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Ružomberok have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
This arena uses artifical turf, unlike Ružomberok's home ground. The latest five games by the away side on artifical turf have produced 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Žilina form and stats
Žilina have played 11 Fortuna Liga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-2-4 (wins-draws-losses).
The home supporters saw a 2-2 draw versus DAC last time out and are looking for a victory here.
The Žilina fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 19 goals in 11 league matches. 14 goals have been conceded.
Ružomberok form and stats
5-4-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Ružomberok in their Fortuna Liga matches away.
There were no winners in Ružomberok's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs Spartak Trnava.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Slovan Bratislava that ended 1-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Ružomberok in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Ružomberok, three draws and two defeats.
Ružomberok are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 20 times in 11 away games so far.
Head 2 Head
These competitors have played earlier this season: Ružomberok - Žilina 5-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Žilina victories, one draw and five Ružomberok wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Regáli 7 goals | M. Kochan 6 goals | M. Boďa 5 goals |
Žilina missing players
Ružomberok missing players
| Žilina | Ružomberok | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 13 | 5 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 25 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 9 | 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 39 | 23 | 5 | Scored | S | 6 | 21 | 44 |
| 39 | 19 | 9 | Conceded | C | 3 | 12 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 80% |
| 88% | 92% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 68% |
| 64% | 69% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 50% | 48% |
| 44% | 46% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 32% |
| 12% | 15% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 17% | 20% |
| 72% | 62% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 50% | 48% |
| 12% | 15% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 42% | 48% |
| 16% | 23% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 24% |
| 6.5 | 6.6 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 5.1 | 4.5 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.3 | 5.3 | 4.9 |
| 1.6 | 1.9 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.4 | 13.7 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.7 | 10.9 | 11.2 |
| 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.1 | 4.6 |
| 28% | 30% | 19% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 34% | 38% |
| 10.6 | 10.1 | 10.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.3 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.8 | 3.2 |
- Ružomberok have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Ružomberok have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Žilina have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Žilina haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 52 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 36 | 53 |
| 2 | Spartak Trnava | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 29 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 17 | 45 |
| 3 | Ružomberok | 22 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 39 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 22 | 41 |
| 4 | DAC | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 36 |
| 5 | Sered | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 32 |
| 6 | Žilina | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 34 | 33 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 1 | 30 |
| 7 | Senica | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 21 | 32 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | -11 | 27 |
| 8 | Trencin | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 32 | 33 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 17 | -1 | 25 |
| 9 | Zemplin Michalovce | 22 | 7 | 2 | 13 | 20 | 31 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -11 | 23 |
| 10 | Liptovsky Mikulas | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 27 | 43 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 28 | -16 | 21 |
| 11 | Zlate Moravce | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 36 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 24 | -14 | 19 |
| 12 | Pohronie | 22 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 19 | 47 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 26 | -28 | 10 |
