📏 Form Guide

Železiarne Podbrezová

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Železiarne Podbrezová will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 0-2 Super Liga losing effort in their last game against Spartak Trnava.

In that game, Železiarne Podbrezová managed 63% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For their opponents, Spartak Trnava had 14 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Marek Ujlaky (37') and Samuel Štefánik (59') scored for Spartak Trnava.

It’s been all too rare in recent times where Železiarne Podbrezová haven’t conceded. The reality is that Železiarne Podbrezová have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 games, letting in 14 goals in the process. Such a trend isn’t assured to follow through into this match, however.

Their previous form shows that Železiarne Podbrezová:

• haven't been beaten by MŠK Žilina when playing them at home in the last 3 league matches.
• have not emerged victorious against MŠK Žilina in their last 2 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 3 league games.

MŠK Žilina

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In their last fixture, MŠK Žilina drew 0-0 in the Super Liga match with MFK Ružomberok.

In that match, MŠK Žilina managed 73% possession and 28 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. MFK Ružomberok got 2 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and MŠK Žilina have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 9 goals in total. Defensively, MŠK Žilina have some weaknesses to address.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 19/02/2023 shows us that Železiarne Podbrezová have won 4 of these games and MŠK Žilina 2, with the number of draws being 0.

20 goals were produced between them in these games, with 12 from Železiari and 8 belonging to Šošoni. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.33.

The last league game featuring these clubs was Super Liga match day 1 on 09/03/2024 when it finished MŠK Žilina 3-2 Železiarne Podbrezová.

On that occasion, MŠK Žilina had 44% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 on target.

Železiarne Podbrezová had 13 shots on goal with 4 of them on target.

🗞️ Team News: Železiarne Podbrezová

The Železiarne Podbrezová manager Roman Skuhravy has zero fitness worries to speak of coming into this game owing to a fully healthy squad available to select from.

📰 Team News: MŠK Žilina

With a completely healthy squad ready to go, the MŠK Žilina manager Jaroslav Hynek does not have any fitness worries at all ahead of this match.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two, we feel that MŠK Žilina and Železiarne Podbrezová may well both score at least one goal each although picking a clear a winner isn’t easy.

A close call, and we think a draw is quite likely - as are goals. That’s why our selection here is for a very even match with a score draw at the end of the 90 minutes.

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

Andre Moura, 13:10 20/04/2024