Maribor vs Celje Prediction & Betting Tips

The PrvaLiga fixture at Stadion Ljudski vrt on Saturday sees home side Maribor doing battle with Celje.

Our Maribor v Celje tips, poll and stats can be seen in full below - plus the latest match odds.

📊 Form Guide

Maribor WWWDDW 📈

Maribor, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 4-1 PrvaLiga success versus Bravo.

Fixtures featuring Maribor have tended to be exciting encounters recently with high scoring being the norm. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum of 20 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 15 of those being chalked up by Vijoličasti.

Leading up to this clash, Maribor:

• have left without a victory over Celje in their previous 2 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 home league matches.

Celje DWLLDL

Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Domžale in PrvaLiga action, Celje and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

Throughout their six most recent matches, Dušan Kosič's Celje have found the back of the net 7 times, yielding them a goals scored per game average of 1.17.

Coming into this contest, Celje are undefeated in their last 5 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 30/03/2019 shows us that Maribor have won 2 of these & Celje 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined sum of 15 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 7 of them for Vijoličasti and 8 for Grofje. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

🗞️ Team News: Maribor

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the lone fitness concern for the Maribor manager Darko Milanič to contend with from an otherwise complete group of players. Nino Irgolic (Achilles Irritation) misses out.

📰 Team News: Celje

Owing to a fully healthy squad to choose from, Celje manager Dušan Kosič doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Celje have it in them to put one past this Maribor side, although that isn’t expected to be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re predicting a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 advantage for Maribor after 90 minutes. It’s a very tough call.

Renata Leite, 23:20 15/09/2020