📊 Form Guide

Rijeka

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Rijeka will play in this fixture after a 0-0 Prva Liga drawn game against Istra 1961.

In that game, Rijeka managed 50% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 1 on target. On the other side, Istra 1961 got 11 shots at goal with 2 on target.

An interesting characteristic of recent Rijeka games is the high number of scores with a nil in them.

From their prior six matches before this one, in as many as 5 of them a wager on both teams scoring would've lost. We will have to see if that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Ahead of this clash, Rijeka are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Gorica

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Gorica head into the encounter after a 2-0 Prva Liga win to beat NK Osijek in their last game.

In that game, Gorica had 40% possession and 5 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Gorica, goals were scored by Bruno Bogojević (5') and Ante Erceg (12'). For their opponents, Osijek had 16 shots at goal with 5 of them on target.

During their 6 previous matches, Mario Carević's Gorica have seen their goal attempts be successful 6 times thus yielding them a goals scored per game average of 1.

Coming into this meeting, Gorica are winless against Rijeka when they have played them away from home in the previous 7 league games. Not good.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 30/11/2024 shows that Rijeka have won 4 of these games and Gorica 1, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

A total of 13 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them for Riječki bijeli and 6 coming from Gorica. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The previous league game featuring the two was Prva Liga match day 27 on 22/03/2026 and the score finished Gorica 4-0 Rijeka.

That time, Gorica managed 43% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The goals were scored by Ante Erceg (12') and Bruno Bogojević (52', 70', 76').

Rijeka got 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

The referee was Duje Strukan.

📰 Team News: Rijeka

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the lone fitness concern for the Rijeka gaffer Víctor Sánchez to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy squad. Téo Barišić (Cruciate ligament tear) will miss out. Dimitri Legbo is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

✨ Prediction

We feel that Gorica will likely be able to find the back of the net against this Rijeka side, but it isn’t expected to be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re predicting a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 victory for Rijeka at the end of the 90 minutes. Let’s just see how this one goes.

Andre Moura, 13:06 23/05/2026