📏 Form Guide

Varaždin

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Varaždin will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 0-1 Prva Liga triumph vs NK Osijek.

In that match, Varaždin managed 33% possession and 6 shots at goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Varaždin was Leon Belcar (12'). On the other side, Osijek had 11 shots at goal with 3 on target.

Under three goals per match were seen in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Varaždin have taken part. Breaking down the goal weighting from this period, their opponents scored a total of 6 while Varaždin managed a tally of 5.

Taking a look at their past results, Varaždin:

• haven't lost in the league to Gorica in their previous 3 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches at home.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league games.

Gorica

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Last time out, Gorica drew 0-0 in the Prva Liga tie with Istra 1961.

In that match, Gorica had 36% possession and 7 shots on goal with 3 on target. For their opponents, Istra 1961 got 15 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

The trend of at least one team not scoring a goal in games involving Gorica has become apparent of late. Looking at their last 6 games shows that it has occurred 5 times. During those clashes, their opponents have hit a goal aggregate of 10 and Gorica have scored 2. Such a trend won’t necessarily be carried forward here, though.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Gorica:

• haven't won against Varaždin when they've played them away from home in the last 4 league games. Not the best of away records.
• are without an away win for the past 9 league matches. Their travelling support will be needed here, for sure.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes going back to 18/01/2023 shows that Varaždin have won 3 of these games & Gorica 1, with the tally of drawn results standing at 2.

A sum of 17 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 9 from Bumbari and 8 for Gorica. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The last league contest between the two was Prva Liga match day 19 on 15/12/2023 when it ended Gorica 1-3 Varaždin.

That day, Gorica managed 50% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Tim Matavž (80').

Varaždin got 24 shots at goal with 12 on target. Michele Šego (59'), Domagoj Drožđek (72') and Fran Brodić (73') scored.

The referee was Zdenko Lovrić.

🗞️ Team News: Varaždin

The Varaždin manager Nikola Šafarić will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns at all before this clash owing to a fully injury-free group to pick from.

📋 Team News: Gorica

Owing to an otherwise full-strength group of players, there is only a single fitness problem for the Gorica boss Dinko Jeličić to be concerned about. Valentino Majstorovic (Muscle injury) won’t be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

In our view, Gorica may well find it hard to be putting a goal past this Varaždin lineup who we think might well be able to grind out a win.

We’re therefore anticipating a highly competitive game with a 1-0 winning margin for Varaždin at the end of this game.

Let’s see how this one goes.

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Victor Martins, 13:02 30/03/2024