NK Osijek vs Slaven Belupo Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

NK Osijek

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NK Osijek will be wanting a better result here following a 0-2 Conference League Qualifiers defeat in their last game at the hands of Kyzylzhar.

Moussa Koné (71') scored for Kyzylzhar.

It’s been all too rare in recent games where NK Osijek have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, NK Osijek have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 7 goals along the way.

Going into this encounter, NK Osijek have not been beaten in their last 8 home league matches. Visiting teams have certainly not had an easy time of it here.

Slaven Belupo

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Dinamo Zagreb in Prva Liga competition, Slaven Belupo will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Slaven Belupo had 42% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Slaven Belupo was Mario Marina (2'). At the other end, Dinamo Zagreb had 23 shots on goal with 16 on target. Martin Baturina (7'), Mislav Oršić (15'), Josip Drmić (20'), Josip Mišić (74') and Dario Špikić (90') scored for Dinamo Zagreb.

Showing their fondness for high-scoring encounters, goals have been scored 20 times in the previous 6 matches in which Slaven Belupo have taken to the pitch, yielding a mean average of 3.33 goals for each meeting. Opposing teams have got 12 of those goals. Let’s find out if that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

Coming into this contest, Slaven Belupo have not been beaten by NK Osijek when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 02/02/2021 shows us that NK Osijek have won 3 of these games and Slaven Belupo 1, with the number of draws standing at 2.

A total of 13 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 9 from Bijelo-plavi and 4 netted by Farmaceuti. The average goals per game has been 2.17.

The previous league game featuring the two was Prva Liga match day 30 on 10/04/2022 which ended up with the score at Slaven Belupo 0-1 NK Osijek.

In that game, Slaven Belupo had 50% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

NK Osijek got 9 shots on goal with 6 on target. Mijo Caktaš (33') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Igor Pajač.

ℹ️ Team News: NK Osijek

The NK Osijek boss Nenad Bjelica will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game owing to a completely injury-free group available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Slaven Belupo

With a fully healthy squad ready to go, the Slaven Belupo boss Zoran Zekić doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of before this game.

✨ Prediction

It looks to us that NK Osijek will more than likely get the win and a possible clean sheet when they face Slaven Belupo, who could well struggle scoring a goal of their own.

We’re predicting a decent 2-0 winning score for NK Osijek by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

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

Renata Leite, 00:44 27/07/2022