📊 Form Guide

MŠK Žilina

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MŠK Žilina will be looking for an improved result here following a 1-0 Super Liga defeat last time out to Spartak Trnava.

In that game, MŠK Žilina managed 65% possession and 13 shots on goal with 2 on target. For their opponents, Spartak Trnava had 13 shots on goal with 3 on target. Philip Azango (24') scored for Spartak Trnava.

MŠK Žilina have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets of late, although they have also found ways to hit the back of the net themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, MŠK Žilina have been punished defensively in 6 of them in addition to scoring in 5 of those games.

Their prior results show that MŠK Žilina:

• have left without a victory over Slovan Bratislava in their last 3 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 home league matches.

Slovan Bratislava

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Slovan Bratislava go into this clash following on from a 2-1 Super Liga win against Železiarne Podbrezová in their most recent outing.

In that game, Slovan Bratislava had 52% possession and 16 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For Slovan Bratislava, the goals were scored by Dávid Strelec (26') and Nino Marcelli (90'). Železiarne Podbrezová had 15 shots on goal with 4 on target.

The trend of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games featuring Slovan Bratislava has been noticeable of late. Looking at their last 6 games shows that it has occurred 5 times. In those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal total of 4 and Slovan Bratislava have scored 7. Such a trend might not be sustained into this game, of course.

Taking a look at their past results, Slovan Bratislava:

• have not been beaten by MŠK Žilina when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• are undefeated in their last 9 league matches away from home. Impressive, to say the least.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 21/08/2022 shows that MŠK Žilina have won 2 of these & Slovan Bratislava 4, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 22 overall which averages out at 3.67 goals per match.

The last league meeting featuring these clubs was Super Liga match day 19 on 09/02/2024 when it ended MŠK Žilina 0-4 Slovan Bratislava.

On that occasion, MŠK Žilina managed 44% possession and 7 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

Slovan Bratislava had 16 attempts on goal with 12 on target. Tigran Barseghyan (9'), Vladimír Weiss (36'), Jaba Kankava (82') and Gerson Rodrigues (96') scored.

ℹ️ Team News: MŠK Žilina

The MŠK Žilina boss Jaroslav Hynek has a full complement, with no fitness worries to speak of ahead of this game owing to a fully injury-free squad available to select from.

📋 Team News: Slovan Bratislava

In an otherwise available group, there is just a single fitness worry for the Slovan Bratislava gaffer Vladimír Weiss to be concerned about. Richard Krizan (Knee injury) won’t be in action.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that MŠK Žilina will do well to see themselves scoring against this Slovan Bratislava side who we reckon should get the vital goal that wins it.

We’ve gone for a very competitive game with a 0-1 winning score for Slovan Bratislava when all is said and done.

There should be little in it.

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

Lucas Pereira, 15:14 05/04/2024