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Predictions and Tips
There’s First League - Play Offs action scheduled for Thursday as Botev Vratsa come up against Pirin.
View all of the Botev Vratsa v Pirin predictions, poll and stats below - plus the latest match odds.
📊 Form Guide

Botev Vratsa
WLWWLW
Botev Vratsa are hoping to win again following the 2-1 First League victory vs Slavia Sofia.
For Botev Vratsa, the goals were scored by Brayan Perea (25') and Hamza Ait Allal (80'). Roberto Raychev (44') was the scorer for Slavia Sofia.
It has been seldom in recent times where Botev Vratsa have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Botev Vratsa have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 8 goals along the way. We will see whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.
Pirin
DLLDDL 📉
Since being beaten in their last game against Lokomotiv Sofia in First League competition, Pirin and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.
Valentin Nikolov (82') scored for Lokomotiv Sofia.
It has become apparent that Pirin have suffered from a lack of goals in their past 6 games, contributing the unsatisfactory return of only 3. In those fixtures, Orletata have also seen the overall goal tally of their opponents equal 7.
👥 Head to head
Looking over their past head to head clashes dating back to 02/09/2022 shows us that Botev Vratsa have won 2 of them & Pirin 3, with the tally of draws standing at 1.
A combined sum of 12 goals were scored between them in these games, with 5 of them from Vratsa and 7 being from Orletata. That is an average goals per game value of 2.
The previous league meeting featuring the two was First League match day 1 on 26/04/2024 when it finished Pirin 1-2 Botev Vratsa.
The match was refereed by Ivo Andreev.
📋 Team News: Pirin
Owing to a fully injury-free squad available to select from, the Pirin boss Oleksandr Babych has no fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash.
🧠 Prediction
Botev Vratsa will probably stay in control for long periods of time and should be able to convert a few of the chances that they create.
Conversely, Pirin are also probably going to find it difficult to score but we do think it’s quite likely that they will be managing to get on the scoresheet.
Our selection here is for a controlled 3-1 win for Botev Vratsa at the end of the 90 minutes.
Victor Martins, 15:00 29/05/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

🏟️ Team Focus:
Botev Vratsa
Formed: 1921
Stadium: Stadion Hristo Botev (25,000)
Captain: Daniel Genov
Chairman: Hristo Iliev
Manager: Hristo Yanev
Competitions: First League position 14, First League - Play Offs (Relegation Final)
🔑 Key Man: Brayan Perea
Typically taking up the Striker position, Brayan Perea was born in Cali, Colombia. Having made his senior debut playing for Lazio in the 2013 - 2014 season, the accomplished Forward has contributed 9 league goals in this First League 2024 - 2025 campaign so far coming from a total of 29 appearances.
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36 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 48 | 83 | DDLDD |
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36 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 35 | 72 | DWWDD |
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36 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 59 | DLWDD |
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36 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 58 | DDLDD |
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36 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 30 | 65 | WWWWW |
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36 | 16 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 56 | WLWLL |
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36 | 15 | 6 | 15 | -8 | 51 | LLLWL |
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36 | 14 | 7 | 15 | -2 | 49 | LWLLW |
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37 | 14 | 7 | 16 | -2 | 49 | LDWLL |
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37 | 13 | 8 | 16 | -8 | 47 | WDWWW |
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37 | 12 | 11 | 14 | -2 | 47 | DWLWW |
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37 | 14 | 3 | 20 | -14 | 45 | WLWLW |
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37 | 10 | 8 | 19 | -12 | 38 | WWLWL |
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37 | 10 | 6 | 21 | -31 | 36 | LWWLW |
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37 | 8 | 9 | 20 | -25 | 33 | LLLLL |
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37 | 4 | 9 | 24 | -36 | 21 | DLLWL |
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Etar Veliko Tarnovo |
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Septemvri Sofia |
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Arda Kardzhali |
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CSKA Sofia |
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Krumovgrad |
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Brayan Perea | 9 |
Daniel Genov | 7 |
Martin Smolenski | 3 |
Martin Bachev | 2 |
David Suárez | 2 |
Hugo Komano | 4 |
Ivan Tasev | 4 |
Aymen Souda | 3 |
Boris Tyutyukov | 3 |
Ventsislav Bengyuzov | 2 |
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