Rijeka vs Hajduk Split Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Rijeka

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Rijeka, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 3-5 Prva Liga victory over Šibenik.

In that game, Rijeka had 66% possession and 14 shots at goal with 8 on target. For Rijeka, goals were scored by Josip Drmić (12', 69', 72'), Domagoj Pavičić (37') and Anton Krešić (49'). Šibenik had 16 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. Juan Camilo Mesa (27'), Eros Grezda (35') and Karlo Bilić (79') scored for Šibenik.

It has not been often in recent times where Rijeka have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Rijeka have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 9 goals during that time.

Hajduk Split

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Hajduk Split come into this meeting after a 2-1 Prva Liga win with the eclipse of Hrvatski Dragovoljac in their last match.

In that match, Hajduk Split managed 60% possession and 18 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Hajduk Split, goals were scored by Nikola Kalinić (6') and Marko Livaja (87'). Hrvatski Dragovoljac got 9 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Matija Frigan (51') was the scorer for Hrvatski Dragovoljac.

A run of hard-working displays by the Hajduk Split defenders has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 2 from their last 6 clashes in total. Over that same period of time, their own forwards have managed to score 6. We will just have to see if that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Pre-game facts show that Hajduk Split:

• haven't been beaten by Rijeka when having played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• have not been beaten in their last 9 away league matches. What an impressive run of results.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 10/02/2021 tells us that Rijeka have won 2 of them & Hajduk Split 4, with the number of drawn games being 0.

In all, 19 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 of them from Riječki bijeli and 10 for Bili. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The last league clash between the two was Prva Liga match day 25 on 26/02/2022 and the score finished Hajduk Split 1-3 Rijeka.

In that match, Hajduk Split had 55% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The scorer was Marko Livaja (69').

For their opponents, Rijeka had 7 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Josip Drmić (17'), Haris Vučkić (33') and Anton Krešić (86') scored.

The match was refereed by Fran Jović.

📰 Team News: Rijeka

The Rijeka boss Goran Tomić has no fitness concerns at all before this game owing to a fully injury-free group available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Hajduk Split

With a fully healthy group to pick from, the Hajduk Split boss Valdas Dambrauskas has no fitness worries to speak of coming into this clash.

💭 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Rijeka could find themselves up against it to hit the back of the net against this Hajduk Split outfit who we reckon should end up scoring and staying ahead.

Therefore, we predict a hard-fought 0-1 winning score for Hajduk Split at the end of this one.

A close call.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 00:25 04/05/2022