National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Lipany or Ružomberok that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Lipany form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Slovakia Cup for Lipany, as the manager E. Jacko led his troops to eliminate Dvorniky-Vcelare, and reach the 2nd Round. Lipany participated in Slovakia Cup the last season, where they reached the 2nd round.3 victories, 1 draw and 0 defeats. That’s what Lipany have to build on here at Mestský štadión in the 3. Liga - East. In general it's been a long time since Lipany tasted defeat here at Mestský štadión, as they have taken at least one point from their last 13 home games in the league. Lipany haven’t lost a league-game in 14 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Tatran Presov, 346 days ago.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Slovan Giraltovce and winning 4-1.
As indicated by the result mentioned above, Lipany played a great game against Sobrance and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Lipany are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (11 goals in 4 games). Lipany have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.
Ružomberok form and stats
Last season their Slovakia Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.The Super Liga season is young and Ružomberok have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.
Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Pohronie.
A quick return to home after this game, as Ružomberok are hosting Zemplín Michalovce in the Super Liga only four days away.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Ružomberok have scored 4 goals in 3 league games away. For Ružomberok, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Maslo 2 goals | A. Brenkus 1 goals | M. Kmet 1 goals |
Lipany missing players
Ružomberok missing players
| Lipany | Ružomberok | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 16 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 11 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 9 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 10 | 11 | ||
| 73 | 37 | Scored | S | 11 | 20 | ||
| 18 | 3 | Conceded | C | 23 | 28 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 84% | ||
| 84% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 60% | ||
| 60% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 28% | ||
| 52% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 19% | 16% | ||
| 36% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 6% | 4% | ||
| 36% | 15% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 36% | ||
| 60% | 77% | Clean Sheets | C S | 19% | 32% | ||
| 4% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 48% | ||
| 5.7 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 5.6 | ||
| 6.2 | 6.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.1 | 5.4 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 68 | 49 | Total Shots | T S | 132 | 248 | ||
| 33 | 23 | Shots on Target | S O | 57 | 95 | ||
| 30% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 19% | 21% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Futura Humenne | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 20 | 22 |
| 2 | Lipany | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 18 |
| 3 | Druzstevnik Plavnica | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 17 |
| 4 | Tatran Presov | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 16 |
| 5 | Slavia TU Kosice | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 14 |
| 6 | Vranov nad Toplou | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 13 |
| 7 | MSK Tesla Stropkov | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 15 | -2 | 11 |
| 8 | Mladost Kalsa | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 10 |
| 9 | Snina | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 | Sobrance | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -5 | 10 |
| 11 | Pokrok Krompachy | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | -9 | 8 |
| 12 | Slovan Giraltovce | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 | -9 | 7 |
| 13 | Spisske Podhradie | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 25 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 15 | -11 | 7 |
| 14 | Spisska Nova Ves | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | -6 | 6 |
| 14 | Velke Revistia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 1 |
| 15 | Milenium | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 13 | -9 | 6 |
| 16 | Svidnik | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -10 | 2 |
| 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 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 18 |
| 2 | Slovan Bratislava | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 12 |
| 3 | Sered | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 4 | Zilina | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 9 |
| 5 | Nitra | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | -8 | 8 |
| 6 | Spartak Trnava | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 7 |
| 7 | Zlaté Moravce | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 6 |
| 8 | Pohronie | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 6 |
| 9 | Senica | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | -5 | 5 |
| 10 | Ružomberok | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 4 |
| 11 | Zemplín Michalovce | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 14 | -13 | 4 |
| 12 | Trencin | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -3 | 3 |