Sports bettors believe Žilina will beat Spartak Trnava at Štadión Pod Dubňom

It's no vacation for neither Žilina nor Spartak Trnava 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.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Spartak Trnava have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 2-1-2 (win-draw-loss) from five matches.

Žilina form and stats

The Žilina supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Spartak Trnava in Fortuna Liga and win 1-0. Before that match, a win away at Zemplín Michalovce.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Žilina home games with this odds we find six games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Looking at the victories, 3 matches were won by at least two goals.

Last season, Žilina's league statistics were 16 wins, 6 draws and 10 losses, resulting in a 4th position in the Fortuna Liga. Over these 32 matches they scored 56 goals and conceded 44. Playing at home last season Žilina managed 8-3-5 (win-draw-lost) with 33 goals and 21 conceded.

Spartak Trnava form and stats

Three consecutive losses in away matches means Spartak Trnava are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Spartak Trnava, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Žilina. A 0-2 defeat away at Lokomotiv Plovdiv before that.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Spartak Trnava played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 2 times.

Let's have a look at how Spartak Trnava performed last season in the Fortuna Liga: They landed a 1st position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 8 draws and 14 defeats. In total they scored 35 and conceded 35 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 5 and lost 9 with 9/20 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

Last ten meetings between the teams: Žilina won 7, Spartak Trnava won 0 and 3 draws. 8 games with over 2,5 goals, 2 matches with two goals or less.

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