Rijeka vs Slaven Belupo Live Stream, Predictions (May 25)

📏 Form Guide

Rijeka

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Rijeka will be wanting a better result here after a 2-1 Prva Liga loss in their previous game against Hajduk Split.

In that match, Rijeka had 51% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The scorer for Rijeka was Duje Čop (73'). For their opponents, Hajduk Split got 11 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Marko Livaja (12') and Aleksandar Trajkovski (78') scored for Hajduk Split.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Rijeka have shown defensive steel. In fact, Rijeka have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 8 goals in the process.

Slaven Belupo

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Slaven Belupo come into this encounter following a 4-0 Prva Liga win to beat Gorica in their most recent match.

In that game, Slaven Belupo had 56% possession and 21 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. For Slaven Belupo, the scorers were Ilija Nestorovski (38'), Adrian Liber (73') and Matej Šakota (77'). At the other end, Gorica got 8 shots on goal with 4 on target. Slavko Bralić (35' Own goal) was the scorer for Gorica.

Mario Kovačević's Slaven Belupo have had reason to celebrate scoring 8 times in the course of their latest six matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those same clashes equals 11.

Their past results show that Slaven Belupo:

• have not emerged victorious against Rijeka in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 10/12/2023 tells us that Rijeka have won 3 of these and Slaven Belupo 2, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

An aggregate of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 10 of them from Riječki bijeli and 6 being from Farmaceuti. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The last league match between these clubs was Prva Liga match day 27 on 29/03/2025 which ended up with the score at Slaven Belupo 2-1 Rijeka.

In that match, Slaven Belupo had 57% possession and 12 shots at goal with 4 on target. The goals were scored by Alen Grgić (64') and Ivan Dolček (76').

For their opponents, Rijeka got 12 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Toni Fruk (17') was the scorer.

The referee was Mateo Erceg.

✨ Prediction

Slaven Belupo will need to be at their best to be scoring even one goal against a Rijeka side who look likely to dominate this match.

We predict a very comprehensive 3-0 win for Rijeka by the conclusion of the match.

Peter Guest, 16:02 21/05/2025