MŠK Žilina arrive at ZELPO Aréna on Saturday for the Super Liga tie with hosts Železiarne Podbrezová.
Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Železiarne Podbrezová v MŠK Žilina game - plus the latest betting odds.
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Železiarne Podbrezová
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Železiarne Podbrezová will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 1-2 Super Liga defeat in their last game at the hands of Spartak Trnava.
The only scorer from Železiarne Podbrezová was Daniel Smékal (9'). Jakub Paur (58') scored for Spartak Trnava.
It has been a rare occasion in recent games where Železiarne Podbrezová have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Železiarne Podbrezová have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 9 goals along the way. That sort of pattern might not be continued here, however.
Their prior results show that Železiarne Podbrezová:
- have not beaten MŠK Žilina when playing them at home in the last 2 matches in the league.
- haven't lost in the league to MŠK Žilina in their previous 3 games.
- are without a home win in the past 3 league matches.
MŠK Žilina
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Since tasting defeat last time out to Slovan Bratislava in Super Liga competition, MŠK Žilina and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.
Tigran Barseghyan (11', 47') and Dávid Strelec (72', 84') scored for Slovan Bratislava.
Looking at their form, and MŠK Žilina have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 12 goals in total. Defensively, MŠK Žilina just haven’t been too solid at all.
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Head to head
Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes going back to 05/11/2023 tells us that Železiarne Podbrezová have won 0 of them & MŠK Žilina 3, with the number of draws being 3.
An aggregate of 15 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from Železiari and 9 belonging to Šošoni. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.
The previous league contest between these sides was Super Liga match day 1 on 08/03/2025 when it finished MŠK Žilina 0-0 Železiarne Podbrezová.
That time, MŠK Žilina had 59% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 2 on target.
Železiarne Podbrezová got 3 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.
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Prediction
We feel that MŠK Žilina and Železiarne Podbrezová are both capable of scoring here.
Shouldn’t be much in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. We’re therefore tipping a very close game with a 1-1 score draw when all is said and done.
Peter Guest,
00:06 19/04/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
🏟️ Team Focus:
Železiarne Podbrezová
Formed: 1920
Stadium: ZELPO Aréna (4,061)
Captain: Matej Oravec
Chairman: Vladimir Soták
Manager: Stefan Markulik
Competitions: Super Liga position 6