Slaven Belupo vs Šibenik Prediction & Betting Tips

Šibenik journey to Gradski Stadion u Koprivnici on Friday for the Prva Liga showdown with home team Slaven Belupo.

Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Slaven Belupo v Šibenik game - as well as up-to-date odds.

📊 Form Guide

Slaven Belupo DWDDLD

Slaven Belupo head into this match following on from a 2-2 Prva Liga draw versus Hajduk Split.

For Slaven Belupo, the scorers were Ivan Krstanović (38') and Stipe Bačelić-Grgić (71'). Dimitris Diamantakos (51') and Ádám Gyurcsó (65') scored for Hajduk Split.

Over their prior 6 fixtures, Tomislav Stipić's Slaven Belupo have hit the back of the net 7 times resulting in an average number of goals per match of 1.17.

Heading into this fixture, Slaven Belupo are unbeaten in the league by Šibenik in their previous 8 games. A decent run, indeed.

Šibenik DDLLLL 📉

After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Gorica in Prva Liga competition, Šibenik will be aiming to make amends here.

The only player to score from Šibenik was Silvio Anočić (94'). Ognjen Mudrinski (3'), Kristijan Lovrić (65') and Hrvoje Babec (74') scored for Gorica.

The stats don’t lie, and Šibenik have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals overall. At the back, Šibenik certainly have room for improvement. Such a pattern might not be sustained here, however.

Coming into this clash, Šibenik are without an away win for the past 7 league games.

👥 Head to head

A look at their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 15/08/2009 tells us that Slaven Belupo have won 2 of these games & Šibenik 0, with the tally of drawn games standing at 4.

A total of 14 goals were scored between them in these games, with 8 of them for Farmaceuti and 6 coming from Šibenik. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The previous league meeting featuring these clubs was Prva Liga match day 27 on 21/04/2012 which ended up with the score at Šibenik 1-1 Slaven Belupo.

The match was refereed by Bruno Marić.

📋 Team News: Slaven Belupo

Slaven Belupo manager Tomislav Stipić will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game thanks to a fully healthy squad available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: Šibenik

With a completely injury-free squad available for selection, Šibenik manager does not have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this clash.

🔮 Prediction

One thing is for certain, Šibenik will need to be at their best to put one past a Slaven Belupo side who have the capability to do really well if they play to their full potential.

We think that it’s going to be a very comfortable 3-0 winning margin for Slaven Belupo when the full-time whistle blows.

Lucas Pereira, 23:04 06/09/2020