National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Celje or Dravinja that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Celje and Dravinja.
Celje form and stats
Celje have not come this way in the Slovenian Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Dravinja and Lasko. Last season, Celje's Slovenian Cup journey ended in the semi-finals.Celje have collected 13 points from their 1. SNL home games so far after 4-1-0.
Celje's previous fixture was a Slovenian Cup game also played at their own stadium, finishing 1-0 against Dravinja. The home team hope to to continue in that form.
Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Domzale.The Celje manager Pylypchuk has got the team scoring with 11 from 5 home games in the league. 7 goals have been conceded.
Dravinja form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Žalec and Celje in order to reach 2nd round of Slovenian Cup.Two away matches in a row for Dravinja, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Celje in the Slovenian Cup.
A 0-2 defeat away at Podvinci before that.Dravinja are huge outsiders in this game. Running a check in our games database we found 41 matches where they were as big outsiders as an away team. Results were 13 wins, 8 draws and 20 defeats. Of the defeats, 9 games were lost by at least two goals margin.
Head 2 Head
Last two meetings involving these sides: Celje won two, Dravinja triumphed in zero and we saw zero draws. zero games with over 2,5 goals, two matches with under 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Ikwuemesi 5 goals | V. Janjičić 2 goals | N. Gbamblé 2 goals |
Celje missing players
Dravinja missing players
| Celje | Dravinja | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 10 | Won | W | 6 | 17 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 4 | ||
| 48 | 25 | Scored | S | 20 | 59 | ||
| 24 | 15 | Conceded | C | 14 | 25 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 92% | ||
| 68% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 76% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 28% | ||
| 48% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 44% | ||
| 40% | 43% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 20% | ||
| 5.4 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.3 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.7 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.6 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.6 | 14.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.7 | 12.8 | ||
| 5.8 | 6.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 6.6 | ||
| 26% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 18% | 27% | ||
| 9.3 | 8.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 11.4 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 4.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Olimpija | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 27 |
| 2 | Celje | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
| 3 | Koper | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 18 |
| 4 | Maribor | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 5 | Mura | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 13 |
| 6 | Domzale | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 12 |
| 7 | Bravo | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 8 | Radomlje | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -9 | 10 |
| 9 | Gorica | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 8 |
| 10 | Tabor Sezana | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -9 | 7 |
