Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Novohrad Lučenec & FK Košice 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.
Novohrad Lučenec form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Slovakia Cup for Novohrad, as the manager A. Kamendy led his troops to eliminate Badin, Rimavska Sobota and Sokol Opatovska Nova Ves, and reach the 3rd Round. Novohrad Lučenec participated in Slovakia Cup the last season, where they reached the 1st round.This match is a Slovakia Cup match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in this competition.
Novohrad manager A. Kamendy and his team return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Rimavska Sobota in the 3. Liga - Center.
Ahead of that match, Novohrad lost 0-1 at home to Banik Kalinovo.The match schedule is unforgiving for Novohrad as they have a new game in only three days, a 3. Liga - Center match thankfully also at home. Cadca are visiting.
FK Košice form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Filakovo in order to reach 3rd round of Slovakia Cup. They also participated in Slovakia Cup last season. This ended in the semi-finals, when Zilina drew the shortest straw.The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 4 wins, 0 draws and only 2 losses in the 2. Liga.
Košice play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Puchov.
A 3-4 defeat away at Šamorín before that.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The 2. Liga trip to Komárno.
Košice are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (18 goals from 6 away games). As for defending, FK Košice rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 9 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  E. Pačinda 5 goals | J. Cortés 5 goals | M. Mølvadgaard 4 goals |
Novohrad Lučenec missing players
FK Košice missing players
| Novohrad Lučenec | FK Košice | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 16 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 6 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 7 | 10 | ||
| 40 | 16 | Scored | S | 31 | 45 | ||
| 46 | 13 | Conceded | C | 24 | 33 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 92% | ||
| 84% | 70% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 94% | 84% | ||
| 72% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 56% | ||
| 56% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 44% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 19% | 20% | ||
| 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 56% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 30% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 24% | ||
| 5.5 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4.8 | ||
| 4.9 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 5.4 | ||
| 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 13 | 18.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.9 | 13.2 | ||
| 6.2 | 7.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 5.3 | ||
| 27% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 35% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Banska Bystrica | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 20 |
| 2 | Futura Humenne | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
| 3 | Komárno | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 19 |
| 4 | Podbrezová | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 18 |
| 5 | Skalica | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 17 |
| 6 | Petrzalka akademia | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 16 |
| 7 | Zilina II | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 |
| 8 | Slavoj Trebisov | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -1 | 14 |
| 9 | FK Košice | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 13 |
| 10 | Šamorín | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 13 |
| 11 | Dubnica | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 9 |
| 12 | Rohoznik | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -9 | 9 |
| 13 | Partizan Bardejov | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 6 |
| 14 | Slovan Bratislava II | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 14 | -18 | 5 |
| 15 | Puchov | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -8 | 3 |
| 16 | Námestovo | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 18 | -31 | 1 |