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Cherno More Varna arrive at Stadion Hristo Botev on Saturday for the First League tie with hosts Pirin.
Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Pirin v Cherno More Varna game including the latest game odds.
📏 Form Guide
Pirin
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Pirin fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 1-2 First League success over CSKA Sofia.
For Pirin, the scorers were Vitālijs Jagodinskis (14') and Ivan Tasev (79'). Fernando Karanga (26') scored for CSKA Sofia.
It has been a rare occasion in recent times where Pirin haven’t conceded. In fact, Pirin have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 7 goals in the process. That trend might not be sustained into this next game, though.
Heading into this fixture, Pirin have not won against Cherno More Varna in their previous 5 league games.
Cherno More Varna
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Cherno More Varna come into this encounter after a 3-1 First League win versus Levski Sofia in their last game.
For Cherno More Varna, the goals were scored by Ismail Isa (40'), Andreas Calcan (67') and Atanas Iliev (81'). Ricardinho (51') scored for Levski Sofia.
During their six most recent matches, Ilian Iliev's Cherno More Varna have had reason to celebrate scoring a total of 8 times thus giving them the goals scored per game average of 1.33.
Leading up to this clash, Cherno More Varna:
- haven't been beaten by Pirin when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 matches in the league. Away fans have certainly had plenty to cheer about.
- have not won away from home in their last 4 league games.
↔️ Head to head
Checking on past results between these clubs going back to 17/04/2018 shows that these fixtures have been disappointments for Pirin. They have not been able to come away with any wins whatsoever while Cherno More Varna have just been stronger than them, beating them in 67% of those match-ups.
A sum of 13 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 4 from Orletata and 9 netted by The Sailors. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.
The last league fixture featuring these clubs was First League match day 15 on 26/10/2023 when it ended Cherno More Varna 2-1 Pirin.
In that game, Cherno More Varna managed 59% possession and 25 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. The goals were scored by Pablo Álvarez (17') and Daniel Dimov (83').
Pirin got 13 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Hugo Komano (9') scored.
The match was refereed by Petar Kuzev.
🗞️ Team News: Pirin
Ilian Kostov (unknown injury), Aymen Souda (unknown injury) and Andrey Yordanov (Calf injury) won’t be able to feature for Pirin manager Oleksandr Babych.
📋 Team News: Cherno More Varna
Cherno More Varna boss Ilian Iliev has a number of players out of action. Vlatko Drobarov (Broken finger), Breno (Cruciate ligament injury) and Daniel Dimov (Muscle strain) miss out here.
🧠 Prediction
We’re inclined to think that Pirin may well find it hard to breach the defence of this Cherno More Varna team who we think should score at least once to put them ahead.
We’re therefore anticipating a narrow 0-1 winning margin for Cherno More Varna at the conclusion of the game.
Hoping for a good game.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Lucas Pereira, 12:09 20/04/2024
🏟️ Team Focus:
Pirin
Formed: 1922
Stadium: Stadion Hristo Botev (7,500)
Captain: Aleksandar Dyulgerov
Chairman: Petar Zanev
Manager: Oleksandr Babych
Competitions: First League position 13
🔑 Key Man: Hugo Komano
Usually deployed in the Striker position, Hugo Komano was born in France. Having made a first senior appearance for Pirin in the 2023 - 2024 season, the talented Forward has hit 4 league goals in this First League 2023 - 2024 season to date in a total of 26 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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1 |
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29 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 60 | 72 | WWWWW |
2 |
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29 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 61 | WDWLW |
3 |
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29 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 30 | 60 | WWLWL |
4 |
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29 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 54 | WLWWD |
5 |
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29 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 51 | WWLLL |
6 |
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30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 44 | DWDDW |
7 |
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29 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 42 | LDDLW |
8 |
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29 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 41 | LDWDW |
9 |
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29 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 39 | LDLWL |
10 |
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30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | -17 | 33 | LDLWL |
11 |
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29 | 9 | 6 | 14 | -17 | 33 | DWLLD |
12 |
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29 | 8 | 6 | 15 | -9 | 30 | WLLWL |
13 |
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29 | 7 | 8 | 14 | -18 | 29 | DWDLW |
14 |
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29 | 8 | 4 | 17 | -30 | 28 | LLLWL |
15 |
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30 | 6 | 4 | 20 | -31 | 22 | WDDLW |
16 |
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30 | 3 | 5 | 22 | -39 | 14 | LWLDL |
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Etar Veliko Tarnovo |
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Levski Sofia |
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Lokomotiv Sofia |
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Hebar Pazardzhik |
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Goals scored | 0.8 |
Goals conceded | 1.2 |
Time first goal scored | 42 |
Time first goal conceded | 53 |
Yellow cards | 2.8 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 3.6 |
Biggest victory | 2-1 |
Biggest defeat | 2-0 |
Goals scored | 1.3 |
Goals conceded | 1.1 |
Time first goal scored | 47 |
Time first goal conceded | 48 |
Yellow cards | 1.9 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.1 |
Biggest victory | 5-1 |
Biggest defeat | 3-1 |
Hugo Komano | 4 |
Aymen Souda | 3 |
Ivan Tasev | 3 |
Boris Tyutyukov | 3 |
Ventsislav Bengyuzov | 2 |
Atanas Iliev | 12 |
Alex Fernandes | 5 |
Ismail Isa | 5 |
Matheus Machado | 4 |
Vasil Panayotov | 4 |
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