Gorica vs Dinamo Zagreb Prediction: Dinamo is in big problems with injured players

Gorica welcomes Dinamo to its stadium on Saturday from 18:00. Gorica are in an ungrateful situation, at the bottom of the table, and they must look for victories and points regardless of their opponents. This is a match between the leader of the league and the last-placed team, and those matches are often known to be tricky and a turning point in the season for one of the teams. The hosts will try to get at least one point from this duel, but their opponent is the best team in the league.

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Ahead of Gorica is a very difficult finish of the championship because it wants to leave the last place in the ranking, the only one that leads to the second division. Currently, Gorica has eight points less than the penultimate Sibenik. Gorica, the last team in the HNL standings, defeated Slovenian first league team Domzale 3:1 in a friendly match, before the most important part of the season. In the last few matches Gorica did not look bad, but still lost games and vital points in the fight to avoid relegation. The new coach Zeljko Sopic was presented as a savior, but after his team had a series of negative results, he became desperate and it seemed that he even lost the reins. In the last 5 matches Gorica have 2 wins, a draw and 2 defeats. They won in the last 2 matches at home and will try to continue the good form against Dinamo.

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Dinamo will play in Gorica without at least three important players. One is Arijan Ademi, who played his last game in the blue jersey in the previous round against Rijeka, and the other is forward Bruno Petkovic. The striker suffered an injury from which he did not recover during the representative break and because of this, he was not available to Zlatko Dalic in the national team. Cacic was also left without Dina Peric, who was rather bizarrely injured. Enraged by the defeat against Istria in Pula, Peric hit the locker room door with his fist and broke his thumb. He played against Rijeka with the fracture but then had to undergo surgery, which will keep him out of action for at least six weeks. However, Dinamo are secure in 1st position with 9 points more than the 2nd place team Hajduk, so there isn’t too much pressure on them in this match.

Looking at the tradition, it immediately becomes clear that these two teams play hard challenging duels with few or no goals. In the ninth round, Dinamo narrowly won at Gorica in stoppage time. At the same time, last season's match on the Gorica turf was also close and ended with an identical 1:0 victory for the champions. At the opening of the half-season, we saw a tough battle and Gorica managed to win a point as a visitor in Zagreb. With 10 rounds before the end of the season, Dinamo Zagreb has a 9-point lead over Hajduk. It seems that it will be quite enough, but still, the Blues do not intend to stop, especially not against the teams from the bottom of the table. Dinamo had a small result crisis in the rest of the season, and they will show that all that is in the past on Saturday afternoon.