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World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone 2022 - Round 7 - Group H

Ta' Qali Stadium - Mdina - Malta

October 08, 2021

Malta

0 - 4

Slovenia

27'

Josip Ilicic (left foot) Assist by Jure Balkovec

49'

Andraz Sporar (right foot) Assist by Sandi Lovric

60'

Josip Ilicic (left foot) Assist by Sandi Lovric

67'

Benjamin Sesko (header) Assist by Sandi Lovric

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27' - Goal Josip Ilicic

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49' - Goal Andraz Sporar

57' - Substitution Shaun Dimechis substituted by Luke Gambin photo Alexander Satariano

57' - Substitution Paul Mbongis substituted by Alexander Satariano57

60' - Goal Josip Ilicic

61' - Substitution Benjamin Verbicis substituted by Domen Crnigoj photo Benjamin Sesko

61' - Substitution Andraz Sporaris substituted by Benjamin Sesko

66' - Yellow card Joseph Mbong66

67' - Goal Benjamin Sesko

68' - Substitution Steve Pisaniis substituted by Tristan Caruana photo Adam Magri Overend

68' - Substitution Joseph Mbongis substituted by Adam Magri Overend68

71' - Substitution Sandi Lovricis substituted by Jon Gorenc Stankovic photo Luka Zahovic

71' - Substitution Josip Ilicicis substituted by Luka Zahovic

80' - Substitution Luke Montebellois substituted by Jurgen Degabriele80

82' - Substitution Jasmin Kurticis substituted by Timi Elsnik

88' - Yellow card Alexander Satariano88

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Malta

0 - 4

Slovenia

Malta Slovenia

Team line-ups

Malta

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

9Montebello80

Luke Montebello

Malta

B.date13/08/1995

Age26 years

H1m89

positionCentre forward

11Paul Mbong57

Paul Mbong

Malta

B.date02/09/2001

Age20 years

positionCentre forward

17Teuma

Teddy Teuma

Malta

B.date30/09/1993

Age28 years

H1m76

positionLeft central midfielder

10Pisani68

Steve Pisani

Malta

B.date07/08/1992

Age29 years

H1m82

positionMidfield

21Dimech57

Shaun Dimech

Malta

B.date08/08/2001

Age20 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

19Attard

Cain Attard

Malta

B.date10/09/1994

Age27 years

H1m77

positionDefender

22Muscat

Zach Muscat

Malta

B.date22/08/1993

Age28 years

H1m84

positionCentral defender

13Pepe

Enrico Pepe

Malta

B.date12/11/1989

Age31 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

2Shaw

Kurt Shaw

Malta

B.date01/04/1999

Age22 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

7J. Mbong6866

Joseph Mbong

Malta

B.date15/07/1997

Age24 years

H1m73

positionRight Winger

1Bonello

Henry Bonello

Malta

B.date13/10/1989

Age31 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Henry Bonello		31	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	D	Enrico Pepe		31	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Zach Muscat		28	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Kurt Shaw		22	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	D	Cain Attard		27	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Steve Pisani	68	29	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Teddy Teuma		28	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Shaun Dimech	57	20	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	D	Joseph Mbong	6866	24	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Luke Montebello	80	26	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Paul Mbong	57	20	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Slovenia

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

9Sporar4961

Andraz Sporar

Slovenia

B.date27/02/1994

Age27 years

H1m86

positionStriker

21Verbic61

Benjamin Verbic

Slovenia

B.date27/11/1993

Age27 years

H1m79

positionLeft Winger

8Lovric71

Sandi Lovric

Slovenia

B.date28/03/1998

Age23 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

7Ilicic276071

Josip Ilicic

Slovenia

B.date29/01/1988

Age33 years

H1m90

positionPlaymaker

14Kurtic82

Jasmin Kurtic

Slovenia

B.date10/01/1989

Age32 years

H1m86

positionDefensive Midfielder

22Cerin

Adam Cerin

Slovenia

B.date16/07/1999

Age22 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

3Balkovec

Jure Balkovec

Slovenia

B.date09/09/1994

Age27 years

H1m85

positionLeft full-back

17Mevlja

Miha Mevlja

Slovenia

B.date12/06/1990

Age31 years

H1m90

positionLeft central defender

6Bijol

Jaka Bijol

Slovenia

B.date05/02/1999

Age22 years

H1m90

positionDefensive Midfielder

18Karnicnik

Zan Karnicnik

Slovenia

B.date18/09/1994

Age27 years

H1m84

positionRight full-back

1Oblak

Jan Oblak

Slovenia

B.date07/01/1993

Age28 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Jan Oblak		28	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	D	Miha Mevlja		31	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Jure Balkovec		27	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	D	Zan Karnicnik		27	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Jasmin Kurtic	82	32	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Sandi Lovric	71	23	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Jaka Bijol		22	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Adam Cerin		22	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Josip Ilicic	276071	33	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Benjamin Verbic	61	27	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Andraz Sporar	4961	27	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Matthew Grech		25
16	G	Jake Galea		25
15	D	Samir Arab		27
4	D	Steve Borg		33
5	D	Karl Micallef		25
3	D	Adam Magri Overend	68	21	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Luke Gambin	57	28	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	M	Tristan Caruana	68	30	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Dunstan Vella		25
8	M	Jake Grech		23
14	F	Alexander Satariano	5788	19	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	F	Jurgen Degabriele	80	24	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
16	G	Igor Vekic		23
12	G	Vid Belec		31
4	D	Miha Blazic		28
5	D	Zan Rogelj		21
20	D	Zan Kolmanic		21
13	M	Domen Crnigoj	61	25	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	M	Timi Elsnik	82	23	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	David Tijanic		24
23	M	Jon Gorenc Stankovic	71	25	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Léo Stulac		27
11	F	Benjamin Sesko	6761	18	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Luka Zahovic	71	25	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Enrico Pepe

Andrei Agius

OUT

Steve Pisani

Jurgen Pisani

OUT

Kurt Shaw

Steve Borg

OUT

Shaun Dimech

Ryan Camenzuli

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Zan Karnicnik

Petar Stojanovic

OUT

Andraz Sporar

Benjamin Sesko

OUT

Benjamin Verbic

Jon Gorenc Stankovic

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Devis Mangia

Success rate in this team:

29 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Mangia vs Slovenia

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on October 08, 2021

Mangia vs Kek

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on October 08, 2021

Manager

Age

Match num

Matjaz Kek

Success rate in this team:

43 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

56 %

Kek vs Malta

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 08, 2021

Kek vs Mangia

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 08, 2021

Referee

Anasthasios Sidiropoulos

0 victory	0 draw	2 losses	Malta2 matches	General total	Slovenia2 matches	2 victories	0 draw	0 loss
0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Malta1 match	Season total	Slovenia1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on October 08, 2021					Latest figure on October 08, 2021

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Key figures

Malta keeps its 7 consecutive matches without a win vs Slovenia running (since 12/02/1994). It's a record streak. The first of history

Malta keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a win vs Slovenia in World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone running (since 11/11/2016). It's a record streak. The first of history

Malta keeps its 5 consecutive losses vs Slovenia running (since 07/09/2002). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 7 key stats

General ranking

	2	Russia	16 pts	7 rd
+1	3	Slovenia	10 pts	7 rd
-1	4	Slovakia	9 pts	7 rd
	5	Malta	4 pts	7 rd
	6	Cyprus	4 pts	7 rd

General ranking

	1	Croatia	16 pts	7 rd
	2	Russia	16 pts	7 rd
+1	3	Slovenia	10 pts	7 rd
-1	4	Slovakia	9 pts	7 rd
	5	Malta	4 pts	7 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VMalta 2-0 Gibraltar07/10/2020

VMalta 3-0 Liechtenstein11/11/2020

VMalta 3-1 Andorra14/11/2020

DMalta 1-1 Faroe Islands17/11/2020

LMalta 1-3 Russia24/03/2021

VMalta 3-0 Cyprus01/09/2021

Overall

LCroatia 3-0 Malta30/03/2021

LMalta 0-3 Northern Ireland30/05/2021

LMalta 1-2 Kosovo04/06/2021

VMalta 3-0 Cyprus01/09/2021

LSlovenia 1-0 Malta04/09/2021

LRussia 2-0 Malta07/09/2021

Current form

Away

VMoldova 0-4 Slovenia14/10/2020

DGreece 0-0 Slovenia18/11/2020

LRussia 2-1 Slovenia27/03/2021

LCyprus 1-0 Slovenia30/03/2021

DNorth Macedonia 1-1 Slovenia01/06/2021

LCroatia 3-0 Slovenia07/09/2021

Overall

LCyprus 1-0 Slovenia30/03/2021

DNorth Macedonia 1-1 Slovenia01/06/2021

VSlovenia 6-0 Gibraltar04/06/2021

DSlovenia 1-1 Slovakia01/09/2021

VSlovenia 1-0 Malta04/09/2021

LCroatia 3-0 Slovenia07/09/2021

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	2
Unbeaten streak	1	0
Winless streak	0	2
Drawless streak	2	6
Scoring streak	8	0
Goalless streak	0	2
Conceding streak	0	2
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	5	1
Drawless streak	1	2
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	4	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

5	General ranking (Competition total)	4
6	General ranking (Home / Away)	5

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

6	Number of games (Competition total)	6
2	Number of games (Home / Away)	3
1	Victories (Competition total)	2
1	Victories (Home / Away)	0
1	Draws (Competition total)	1
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
4	Losses (Competition total)	3
1	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

6	Goals scored (Competition total)	4
4	Goals scored (Home / Away)	1
11	Goals conceded (Competition total)	7
3	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	6
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.67
2	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.33
1.83	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.17
1.5	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2

Betting aid

4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	2
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	2
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
3	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	2
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	2
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	2
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	1
1-3 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-2 (1 times)

Bookings

12	Yellow cards (Competition total)	10
4	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	5
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Cain Attard	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Sandi Lovric
Cain Attard	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Josip Ilicic
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Sandi Lovric
Joseph Mbong	2 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Josip Ilicic
Teddy Teuma	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Miha Zajc
Joseph Mbong	2 goals, 2 assists during the last 6 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	Sandi Lovric

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

0 v

1 d

3 l

1 gf

5 ga

Away

3 matches

0 v

0 d

3 l

0 gf

6 ga

Total

7 matches

0 v

1 d

6 l

1 gf

11 ga

Historical head to head

Home

3 matches

3 v

0 d

0 l

6 gf

0 ga

Away

4 matches

3 v

1 d

0 l

5 gf

1 ga

Total

7 matches

6 v

1 d

0 l

11 gf

1 ga

Largest victory

No success yet

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	September 07, 2002
Away	3 - 1	April 30, 2003

Latest head to head

September 04, 2021 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 2022

Slovenia

1 - 0

Malta

June 10, 2017 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 2018

Slovenia

2 - 0

Malta

November 11, 2016 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 2018

Malta

0 - 1

Slovenia

April 30, 2003 - Eliminatoires Euro 2004

Malta

1 - 3

Slovenia

September 07, 2002 - Eliminatoires Euro 2004

Slovenia

3 - 0

Malta

Best historical scorers against Slovenia

Michael Mifsud

1 goal

2003 - 2003

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/02/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Malta

Ermin Siljak	3 goals	2002 - 2003
Sebastijan Cimirotic	1 goal	2002 - 2002
Zlatko Zahovic	1 goal	2003 - 2003
Benjamin Verbic	1 goal	2016 - 2016
Milivoje Novakovic	1 goal	2017 - 2017
Primoz Gliha	1 goal	1994 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/02/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Slovenia

Michael Mifsud	4 matches	2002 - 2017
Zach Muscat	3 matches	2016 - 2021
David Carabott	3 matches	1996 - 2003
Luke Gambin	3 matches	2016 - 2021
Noel Turner	2 matches	1996 - 2003
Brian Said	2 matches	2002 - 2003

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 12/02/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Malta

Jan Oblak	3 matches	2016 - 2021
Ermin Siljak	3 matches	1996 - 2003
Jasmin Kurtic	3 matches	2016 - 2021
Marko Simeunovic	3 matches	1994 - 2003
Zlatko Zahovic	3 matches	1994 - 2003
Josip Ilicic	2 matches	2016 - 2017