📏 Form Guide

Beroe Stara Zagora

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Beroe Stara Zagora are hoping to win again following the 0-1 First League victory vs CSKA 1948.

The only scorer from Beroe Stara Zagora was Gianni Politino (88').

A common feature of more recent Beroe Stara Zagora games is the number of results with a nil in them.

From their prior sextet of matches before this one, in 5 of them a wager on both teams scoring would have been a loser. We shall soon find out if that trend will end up being sustained here.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Beroe Stara Zagora:

• have not emerged victorious against Botev in their last 5 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Botev

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Previously, Botev drew 0-0 in the First League tie with Cherno More Varna.

Dušan Kerkez's Botev have managed to stick the ball in the net 5 times in the course of their latest six matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during the equivalent period equals 10.

Pre-game facts show that Botev:

• have left without a victory over Beroe Stara Zagora when they have played them away from home in the previous 6 league games. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• haven't been defeated by Beroe Stara Zagora when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 17/09/2021 shows that these encounters have ended in disappointment for Beroe Stara Zagora. They have not been able to come away with any victories at all while Botev have just been too good for them, finishing as winners in 67% of those ties.

16 goals were scored between them in these games, with 5 for Zelenite and 11 coming from The Canaries. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The last league contest between these sides was First League match day 12 on 30/09/2023 when the final score was Botev 4-1 Beroe Stara Zagora.

That day, Botev had 65% possession and 19 attempts on goal with 6 on target. The goalscorers were Antoine Baroan (35', 47', 70') and Ivelin Popov (87').

On the other side, Beroe Stara Zagora had 11 shots on goal with 2 on target. Gianni Politino (85') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Ivelin Zanev.

ℹ️ Team News: Beroe Stara Zagora

The Beroe Stara Zagora boss José Acciari will be happy not to have any fitness worries at all coming into this match owing to a fully healthy squad to choose from.

It seems likely that Zelenite will probably go for a 3-5-2 system for this game and select Arthur, Luciano Squadrone, Franco Mingo, Viktorio Valkov, Damyan Yordanov, Segundo Pachame, Carlos Algarra, Gianni Politino, Jordi Govea, Sebastian Villa and Vinni Triboulet.

📰 Team News: Botev

Botev manager Dušan Kerkez has to choose a team with limited availability. Antoine Conte (Cartilage damage) and Yanis Karabelyov (Broken hand) are not able to play. Bryan Mendoza is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

We believe The Canaries could decide to begin the game with a 4-1-4-1 system, settling for Hidajet Hankic, Nikolay Minkov, Joonas Tamm, Atanas Chernev, K. Balogiannis, Lachezar Baltanov, Emmanuel Umeh, Mohamed Brahimi, Ivelin Popov, Dimitar Papazov and Georgi Nikolov.

⚡ Prediction

Our feeling is that Beroe Stara Zagora will have to play well to hit the back of the net against this Botev team who we think might do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We therefore fancy a very even match with a 0-1 win for Botev at the end of the 90 minutes.

We’ll see what happens.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 13:07 04/04/2024