National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Lokomotíva DNV or Trenčín that keep their silverware dream alive.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Trenčín have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 17-5-16 (win-draw-loss) from 38 matches.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Super Liga game only four days ago.
Lokomotíva DNV form and stats
Lokomotíva DNV's previous match was a Slovakia Cup game also played at their own arena, ending 2-0 against Rohoznik. The home side are looking to repeat that performance.
A 0-0 scoreline against Malacky (after extra-time, 5-3 on penalties) before that one, played at home in the Slovakia Cup. No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Lokomotíva DNV had similar winning odds as today, and found 5 games. In these, the hosts won 1, drew 1 and lost 3. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Lokomotíva DNV lost 2 similar games by at least two goals.
Trenčín form and stats
They also participated in Slovakia Cup last season. This ended in the semi-finals, when Spartak Trnava drew the shortest straw.3-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Trenčín in their Super Liga matches away.
Trenčín played 0-0 against Skalica in their previous match. Kozlovský was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.9. The defender Kozlovský hit two key passes and won 9 of 14 duels.
Prior to that match, the Trenčín manager Stolica faced defeat when travelling to Slovan Bratislava and losing 0-2.A new game in only four days for Trenčín, the Super Liga home match versus Spartak Trnava. Busy days.
The travelling fans enjoy Trenčín's attacking play in away games, having scored 11 goals in 6 league matches away. Trenčín's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 11 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  N. Kupusović 5 goals | R. Ibrahim 4 goals | E. Rocha 2 goals |
Lokomotíva DNV missing players
Trenčín missing players
| Lokomotíva DNV | Trenčín | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 17 | Played | P | 16 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 8 | Won | W | 9 | 14 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Lost | L | 4 | 5 | ||
| 27 | 25 | Scored | S | 32 | 46 | ||
| 47 | 24 | Conceded | C | 24 | 32 | ||
| 96% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 92% | 88% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 64% | 65% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 64% | ||
| 32% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 19% | 16% | ||
| 44% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 64% | ||
| 12% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 32% | ||
| 48% | 35% | Failed to Score | F T | 6% | 8% | ||
| 3.4 | 3.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 5.3 | ||
| 6.5 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.1 | 3.6 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.6 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 7.8 | 8.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.1 | 10.2 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 4.3 | ||
| 48% | 48% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 46% | 43% | ||
| 14 | 13.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.2 | 7.4 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Slovan Bratislava | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 23 |
| 2 | Trenčín | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 23 |
| 3 | Podbrezova | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 22 |
| 4 | Žilina | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 22 |
| 5 | Banska Bystrica | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 18 |
| 6 | Spartak Trnava | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 18 |
| 7 | Dunajská Streda | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 17 |
| 8 | Ružomberok | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | -7 | 13 |
| 9 | Skalica | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -3 | 11 |
| 10 | FK Košice | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -15 | 7 |
| 11 | Zemplín Michalovce | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -13 | 4 |
| 12 | Zlaté Moravce | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -13 | 3 |
