Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Nitra & Zlaté Moravce face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Slovakia Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
Nitra form and stats
Nitra participated in Slovakia Cup the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals.The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Super Liga this season. Nitra have only managed 2 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Štadión pod Zoborom. 4W-0D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Slovakia Cup for Nitra.
Nitra haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 287 minutes ago. M. Ristovski scored that one.
Nitra's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Slovan Bratislava. Heartbreak before that as Nitra lost 0-1 at Zemplin Michalovce's place.
This is expected to be a close game, with Nitra perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Nitra as a small favourite), we find seven games. Nitra has won zero of these, drawn three and lost four.
There will be little rest for Nitra after this match as they are travelling to Senica for a Super Liga game in only three days.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Nitra here at Štadión pod Zoborom in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (8 from 11 games). On the other hand, Nitra have conceded 15 goals.
Zlaté Moravce form and stats
Last season their Slovakia Cup adventure ended in the 8th finals.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Zlaté Moravce so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 2-5-4 (win-draw-lose). Total Slovakia Cup statistics for Zlaté Moravce: 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. It's a growing despair in Zlaté Moravce as they have recorded three consecutive losses. Zlaté Moravce seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
Zlaté Moravce are travelling again after losing away to Spartak Trnava in their previous match (1-2). A 1-3 loss hosting Sereď before that.
Late heartbreak for Zlaté Moravce in the Spartak Trnava match, as the deciding 1-2 goal came deep into overtime.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Zlaté Moravce in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Zlaté Moravce, zero draws and two defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Trenčín in just three days.
Zlaté Moravce have scored 11 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Zlaté Moravce have conceded 17 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Nitra-Zlaté Moravce H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Nitra four wins, Zlaté Moravce three wins, three draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  T. Ďubek 7 goals |  A. Sloboda 2 goals | D. Duga 1 goals |
Nitra missing players
Zlaté Moravce missing players
| Nitra | Zlaté Moravce | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 5 | 9 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 35 | 18 | Scored | S | 19 | 39 | ||
| 36 | 22 | Conceded | C | 14 | 31 | ||
| 92% | 86% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 80% | ||
| 64% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 68% | ||
| 48% | 43% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 40% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 40% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 28% | ||
| 4.2 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 5.6 | ||
| 6.6 | 7.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.1 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 237 | 142 | Total Shots | T S | 121 | 270 | ||
| 99 | 53 | Shots on Target | S O | 53 | 115 | ||
| 35% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 32% | ||
| 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 | 21 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 45 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 34 | 52 |
| 2 | Zilina | 21 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 35 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 18 | 42 |
| 3 | DAC | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 31 | 24 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 38 |
| 4 | Ružomberok | 21 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 25 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 14 | -1 | 28 |
| 5 | Trenčín | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 39 | 33 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 27 |
| 6 | Spartak Trnava | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 24 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 17 | -2 | 27 |
| 7 | Zemplin Michalovce | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 27 | 32 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 23 | -5 | 27 |
| 8 | Senica | 21 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 24 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 17 | -6 | 24 |
| 9 | Zlaté Moravce | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 28 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 17 | -8 | 23 |
| 10 | Sereď | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 31 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 15 | -8 | 22 |
| 11 | Nitra | 21 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 16 | -17 | 16 |
| 12 | Pohronie | 21 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 37 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | -18 | 16 |