📏 Form Guide

Botev

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Botev will be hoping to bounce back here following the 4-0 First League loss in their previous game against CSKA Sofia.

Jonathan Lindseth (25'), Fernando Karanga (33', 42') and Matthias Phaëton (65') scored for CSKA Sofia.

Dušan Kerkez's Botev have hit the back of the net 6 times over their prior 6 outings. The comparative number of goals that have been scored against them in those games is 10.

Cherno More Varna

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Cherno More Varna will go into this match following a 2-1 First League win as they beat CSKA 1948 in their most recent outing.

The only name on the scoresheet from Cherno More Varna was Ismail Isa (4', 66'). Radoslav Kirilov (31') was the scorer for CSKA 1948.

In the course of their 6 latest matches, Ilian Iliev's Cherno More Varna have fired home a total of 9 times therefore giving them a goals per game average of 1.5.

Coming into this meeting, Cherno More Varna haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head meetings going back to 02/08/2021 tells us that Botev have won 2 of these & Cherno More Varna 4, with the tally of draws being 0.

An aggregate of 16 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 of them for The Canaries and 10 coming from The Sailors. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The previous league clash between these clubs was First League match day 11 on 26/09/2023 and the score finished Cherno More Varna 1-0 Botev.

The referee was Georgi Ginchev.

📰 Team News: Botev

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Botev manager Dušan Kerkez to contend with thanks to an otherwise robust group. Antoine Conte (Cartilage damage) is sidelined. Bryan Mendoza is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

ℹ️ Team News: Cherno More Varna

Thanks to a largely available squad, there is only the lone fitness problem for the Cherno More Varna manager Ilian Iliev to be concerned with. Breno (Cruciate ligament injury) misses out for this game.

💡 Prediction

We’re thinking that Cherno More Varna could find themselves struggling to register a score against this Botev side who we reckon will be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

That’s why our selection here is for a highly competitive game with a 1-0 victory for Botev when the referee blows for full-time.

A close call.

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Lucas Pereira, 13:05 31/03/2024