📊 Form Guide

Lokomotiva Zagreb

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Lokomotiva Zagreb will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 0-1 Prva Liga losing effort in their last game against Dinamo Zagreb.

In that game, Lokomotiva Zagreb managed 42% possession and 8 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. On the other side, Dinamo Zagreb had 13 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Sandro Kulenović (60') was the scorer for Dinamo Zagreb.

Their most recent results shine a light on the fact that quality has been evident in the Lokomotiva Zagreb defence. Lokomotiva Zagreb have been miserly, with the number of goals that have flown into the back of their net over the course of their last six outings standing at 3.

Their previous form shows that Lokomotiva Zagreb:

• have not beaten Rijeka in their previous 6 matches in the league.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.

Rijeka

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Rijeka will go into the encounter following on from a 3-0 Prva Liga win with the eclipse of Gorica in their most recent match.

In that game, Rijeka had 63% possession and 28 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Rijeka, goals were scored by Marko Pjaca (68'), Mirko Marić (80') and Bruno Goda (89'). Gorica got 6 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

A tendency of at least one team not managing to score in games featuring Rijeka has been evident of late. Looking at their last six games shows that this has occurred 6 times. In these clashes, their opponents have hit a goal tally of 0 and Rijeka have scored 13. Historical results aside, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern shall be sustained in this upcoming match or not.

Taking a look at their past results, Rijeka:

• are undefeated by Lokomotiva Zagreb in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on past results between these clubs stretching back to 16/10/2022 shows that these encounters have not been happy ones for Lokomotiva Zagreb. They’ve not managed to register any victories at all while Rijeka have been dominant against them, finishing as winners in 83% of those games where they have faced each other.

A total of 17 goals were scored between them in this period, with 3 of them for Lokosi and 14 being from Riječki bijeli. The average goals per game has been 2.83.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was Prva Liga match day 23 on 17/02/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Rijeka 4-0 Lokomotiva Zagreb.

In that match, Rijeka had 44% possession and 17 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. Goals were scored by Bruno Bogojević (9', 31'), Veldin Hodža (85') and Alen Grgić (91').

For their opponents, Lokomotiva Zagreb got 6 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

The referee was Igor Pajač.

📋 Team News: Lokomotiva Zagreb

The Lokomotiva Zagreb manager Silvijo Čabraja has no fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this game with a completely injury-free squad to choose from.

📰 Team News: Rijeka

Owing to a completely injury-free squad ready to go, the Rijeka boss Željko Sopić has zero fitness concerns to report before this game.

💭 Prediction

In our opinion, Lokomotiva Zagreb have enough to breach the defence of this Rijeka outfit, but a single goal possibly won’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We therefore reckon that it will be a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 victory for Rijeka at the end of the match. Let’s just see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 17:00 28/04/2024