📏 Form Guide

Rijeka

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Rijeka will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 1-0 Prva Liga defeat last time out to Dinamo Zagreb.

In that match, Rijeka had 46% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 0 on target. For their opponents, Dinamo Zagreb had 17 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Marko Pjaca (13') was the scorer for Dinamo Zagreb.

A common trait of more recent Rijeka games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

From their previous 6 matches before this one, in 5 of them a bet on BTTS would have been a losing one.

Heading into this contest, Rijeka are unbeaten in the league by Gorica in their last 7 matches.

Gorica

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In their last game, Gorica drew 0-0 in the Prva Liga tie with Šibenik.

In that game, Gorica managed 38% possession and 5 shots at goal with 3 on target. Sibenik got 15 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

A succession of resolute displays from the Gorica defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 3 from their past 6 outings in total. Over that same period, their forwards have scored 6. We will just have to find out if that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Looking at their past form shows that Gorica:

• are winless against Rijeka when they have played them away from home in the previous 5 league matches. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• are unbeaten in their previous 4 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A quick look at their past head to head meetings going back to 24/01/2024 shows that these fixtures have been miserable for Gorica. They have not been able to register any wins at all while Rijeka have been superior, winning in 83% of those matches played.

A sum of 12 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 10 from Riječki bijeli and 2 netted by Gorica. The average goals per game has been 2.

The last league match between these clubs was Prva Liga match day 24 on 01/03/2025 and the score finished Gorica 0-0 Rijeka.

In that match, Gorica managed 51% possession and 8 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

Rijeka had 11 shots on goal with 0 on target.

The match was refereed by Ante Čulina.

💡 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Rijeka will, in all likelihood, be able to create a decent number of chances and shots on target.

At the same time, Gorica will be up against it to score themselves although we do reckon that they could well end up converting at least once as well.

We’re therefore anticipating a decent 3-1 winning margin for Rijeka at the end of the match.

Peter Guest, 16:02 04/05/2025