Struggling Zlaté Moravce will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Žilina in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
It should be mentioned that Žilina play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Žilina on grass are 21 victories, 5 draws and 9 defeats from 35 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 64-32. You can compare this with overall results below.
Zlaté Moravce form and stats
The story so far in the Fortuna Liga for Zlaté Moravce at their home stadium (Štadión FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce) is 1 win, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
Moravce are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Spartak Trnava. In the game before, an away victory in the Slovakia Cup match versus Sokol Jakub with a 8-1 scoreline.
This is expected to be a close game, with Zlaté Moravce perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Zlaté Moravce as a small favourite), we find six games. Zlaté Moravce has won two of these, drawn two and lost two.
The Moravce fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 7 goals in 4 league matches. Moravce have conceded 7 from these games.
Žilina form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (11) away in Fortuna Liga, are W2-D0-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Fortuna Liga. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Žilina have lost on their last two travels.
Žilina played 2-2 against Slovan Bratislava in their previous match. Prior to that result Žilina won their away game at Namestovo in the Slovakia Cup. The scoreline was 7-0.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by Žilina in our archives, and the results are: one win for Žilina, one draw and three defeats.
The schedule is very tough for Žilina now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Slovakia Cup game at Oravske Vesele is waiting in only four days.
Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 11 goals in 4 league games away this season. Žilina struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 7 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: one win for Moravce, one draw and eight wins for Žilina. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.Zlaté Moravce missing players
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| Zlaté Moravce | Žilina | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | 7 | 3 | Scored | S | 5 | 11 | 20 |
| 10 | 7 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 29% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 75% | 71% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 43% |
| 71% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 75% | 86% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 25% | 14% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 51 | 41 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 25 | 52 | 91 |
| 19 | 16 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 10 | 25 | 52 |
| 42% | 44% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 44% | 38% |
- All of Zlaté Moravce's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Žilina's matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Zlaté Moravce have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Zlaté Moravce have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Zlaté Moravce have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Zlaté Moravce haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Žilina has the most scored goals (11) away in Fortuna Liga
- Žilina have scored in all their matches so far.
- Žilina have scored more than double the goals of Zlaté Moravce.
- 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 | DAC | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 21 |
| 2 | Slovan Bratislava | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 13 |
| 3 | Sereď | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 12 |
| 4 | Žilina | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 10 |
| 5 | Spartak Trnava | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 6 | Nitra | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -9 | 8 |
| 7 | Ružomberok | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 7 |
| 8 | Trencin | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -2 | 7 |
| 9 | Pohronie | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 7 |
| 10 | Zlaté Moravce | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 6 |
| 11 | Senica | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 5 |
| 12 | Zemplín Michalovce | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 18 | -17 | 4 |