📏 Form Guide

Arda Kardzhali

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Arda Kardzhali will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 2-1 First League defeat last time out to Etar Veliko Tarnovo.

The only name on the scoresheet from Arda Kardzhali was Tonislav Yordanov (75'). Ivan Vasilev (45') and Didis Lutumba-Pitah (93') scored for Etar Veliko Tarnovo.

Arda Kardzhali have been quite ineffective in attack in recent times. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 4 versus opponents during their last six outings. In those meetings, Arda Kardzhali have also seen the tally of goals scored against them total 9.

Pre-game facts show that Arda Kardzhali:

• haven't been defeated by Slavia Sofia when playing them at home in the last 4 league matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.
• are without a home win in the past 5 league games. Things will have to change soon.

Slavia Sofia

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In their previous fixture, Slavia Sofia drew 0-0 in the First League match with Pirin.

The numbers tell their own story, and Slavia Sofia have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals in all. In defence, Slavia Sofia certainly have room for improvement. Nevertheless, time will tell if that trend might continue on in this upcoming game.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes going back to 02/04/2022 tells us that Arda Kardzhali have won 2 of these games and Slavia Sofia 3, with the tally of draws being 1.

9 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 4 of them for The Vallecans and 5 created by The White Avalanche. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.5.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was First League match day 13 on 07/10/2023 when the final score was Slavia Sofia 1-0 Arda Kardzhali.

That day, Slavia Sofia had 50% possession and 4 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Toni Tasev (45').

On the other side, Arda Kardzhali got 3 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Kristiyan Kolev.

🗞️ Team News: Arda Kardzhali

The Arda Kardzhali manager Nikolay Kirov will be grateful not to have any fitness worries to speak of ahead of this game owing to a fully injury-free squad to choose from.

📰 Team News: Slavia Sofia

Slavia Sofia boss Zlatomir Zagorčić has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Toni Tasev (Muscle strain) and Denislav Aleksandrov (unknown injury) will not be playing here.

🔮 Prediction

Our thinking is that Slavia Sofia may not find it easy to see themselves scoring against this Arda Kardzhali team who should do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a 1-0 winning margin for Arda Kardzhali at the end of this game.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

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

Peter Guest, 17:09 06/04/2024