Lokomotiva Zagreb vs Rijeka Live Stream, Predictions

📊 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 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Dinamo Zagreb had 13 shots at 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 match following a 3-0 Prva Liga win to beat Gorica in their previous game.

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

Looking over past results between these clubs stretching back to 16/10/2022 shows that these encounters have ended in disappointment for Lokomotiva Zagreb. They have not managed to get themselves any victories at all while Rijeka have been the better of the two, finishing as winners in 83% of those games played.

A total of 17 goals were scored between them in this period, with 3 of them for Lokosi and 14 netted by Riječki bijeli. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was Prva Liga match day 23 on 17/02/2024 which ended up with the score at Rijeka 4-0 Lokomotiva Zagreb.

On that occasion, Rijeka had 44% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. The scorers were Bruno Bogojević (9', 31'), Veldin Hodža (85') and Alen Grgić (91').

Lokomotiva Zagreb got 6 shots at goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Igor Pajač.

📰 Team News: Lokomotiva Zagreb

The Lokomotiva Zagreb manager Silvijo Čabraja doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this match owing to a completely injury-free group to pick from.

📰 Team News: Rijeka

Owing to a fully injury-free group available to select from, the Rijeka boss Željko Sopić does not have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this match.

💡 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 under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 16:01 24/04/2024