Slaven Belupo vs Dinamo Zagreb Prediction: The hosts are dreaming of miracle

Croatian HNL is interesting, that's for sure. Dinamo is Dinamo, Hajduk is trying to catch up, while the rest of the league is pretty much evened out. No one can say with certainty that they will score points, or that it will be easy against someone. Many clubs can now fight for fourth, even third place. Slaven Belupo haven’t won two games since returning from the winter break in SuperSport HNL. Zoran Zekic's team drew without goals with Istra in the first game of the season, and then in the next game they were defeated 1:0 by Varazdin. Now a new difficult challenge awaits them, the match with Dinamo. This season, Dinamo played twice against 'pharmacists' and won convincingly twice. Away 5-1 and at home 4-1, but even though the result may not seem like it, in most of the match it was not an easy task for the 'blues'.

Unlike the previous tests with the Blues, in which the Pharmaceutics did not fare well, this time the Zagreb team cannot count on important players like Orsic and Misic, and Petkovic is not completely fit either. Could this by any chance make things easier for Slaven Belupo? The hosts are in 6th place, save in the middle of the table with 27 points, 7 wins, 6 draws, and 6 defeats. At home they have score of 3 wins, 3 draws, and 3 defeats. They don’t know for win in the last 5 matches in the league and against Dinamo it’s more likely that their bad streak will continue.

Dinamo are dominating this season in HNL as it was in the previous several seasons. They have 7 points more than the 2nd place team Hajduk and it gives them opportunity to play those kind of matches without much pressure. The quality and confidence of the team aren’t questionable and even though this team have many injured and absent players, Dinamo is clear favorite in this match.

The visitors are favorites in this encounter, the only question is how well the hosts can oppose and fight against the current champions. The winter conditions on the stadium may also be an issue for the teams to perform well, but Dinamo have big domestic and international experience to overcome these kind of issues and to win all 3 points.