📊 Form Guide

Celje

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Celje won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 5-4 Conference League defeat in their last game at the hands of Lugano.

In that match, Celje managed 57% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. For Celje, the scorers were Svit Sešlar (40'), Tamar Svetlin (68'), Armandas Kučys (90') and Juanjo Nieto (97'). Lugano had 16 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Hadj Mahmoud (21'), Georgios Koutsias (42', 80'), Daniel Dos Santos (44') and Ousmane Doumbia (118') scored for Lugano. The game was won 3-1 by Celje on penalties.

Matches involving Celje have proved to be absorbing affairs of late with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past 6 clashes, the sum of 28 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 4.67 goals per game) with 18 of those coming from Celje.

Nafta Lendava

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Nafta Lendava will go into this meeting following on from a 3-2 PrvaLiga win with the eclipse of Domžale in their most recent game.

Haris Vučkić (23') scored for Domžale.

The stats don’t lie, and Nafta Lendava have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals in all. At the back, Nafta Lendava could really do with shoring things up. It will be interesting to find out if that trend will be continued on here.

↔️ Head to head

The last league match between these sides was PrvaLiga match day 17 on 01/12/2024 which ended up with the score at Nafta Lendava 0-0 Celje.

📰 Team News: Celje

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the sole fitness concern for the Celje gaffer Albert Riera to be concerned with due to a largely intact group. Nejc Ajhmajer (Knee surgery) is sidelined.

🔮 Prediction

We envisage that Nafta Lendava should get enough chances to breach the defence of this Celje lineup, however it is unlikely to be enough to prevent defeat.

We think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 2-1 win for Celje after 90 minutes. It’s a very tough call.

Renata Leite, 19:00 16/03/2025