📏 Form Guide

MŠK Žilina

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MŠK Žilina will be hoping to bounce back here following the 0-3 Super Liga losing effort in their last game against Slovan Bratislava.

In that game, MŠK Žilina managed 67% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. Slovan Bratislava had 14 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Tigran Barseghyan (26', 87') and Nino Marcelli (69') scored for Slovan Bratislava.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that MŠK Žilina have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that MŠK Žilina have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 10 goals along the way. Regardless, it remains to be seen if such a trend shall be maintained in this next game or not.

Going into this contest, MŠK Žilina have not lost a league tie with MFK Ružomberok in their previous 4 games.

MFK Ružomberok

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MFK Ružomberok will go into the match after a 2-1 Super Liga win to beat Spartak Trnava in their previous match.

In that match, MFK Ružomberok had 52% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Spartak Trnava had 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Philip Azango (58') scored for Spartak Trnava.

The stats tell the story, and MFK Ružomberok have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 6 goals overall. At the back, MFK Ružomberok have seen their frailties exposed.

Leading up to this clash, MFK Ružomberok:

• have not registered a win against MŠK Žilina in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 6 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

A review of their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 04/05/2022 shows that MŠK Žilina have won 5 of these and MFK Ružomberok 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

A combined total of 17 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 12 of them for Šošoni and 5 netted by Ruža. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The last league encounter between these clubs was Super Liga match day 12 on 28/10/2023 when it finished MFK Ružomberok 0-2 MŠK Žilina.

On that day, MFK Ružomberok had 52% possession and 9 shots on goal with 2 on target.

For their opponents, MŠK Žilina got 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Dávid Ďuriš (54') was the scorer.

📋 Team News: MŠK Žilina

The MŠK Žilina boss Jaroslav Hynek will be thankful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever before this clash with a completely healthy group available for selection.

📋 Team News: MFK Ružomberok

Due to a completely healthy group to choose from, the MFK Ružomberok manager Ondřej Smetana doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that MFK Ružomberok have the capability to break down this MŠK Žilina lineup, although that is unlikely to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We are anticipating both teams to score in a 2-1 win for MŠK Žilina at the end of the 90 minutes. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 15:17 12/04/2024