📊 Form Guide

Lokomotiv Plovdiv

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Lokomotiv Plovdiv head into this fixture after a 2-2 First League stalemate vs Beroe Stara Zagora.

For Lokomotiv Plovdiv, the goalscorers were Dimitar Iliev (32') and Angel Lyaskov (50'). Sebastián Villa (16') and Vinni Triboulet (47') scored for Beroe Stara Zagora.

Lokomotiv Plovdiv have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They’ve claimed a sum of 11 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 6. That pattern might not be sustained into this next game, however.

Their previous form shows that Lokomotiv Plovdiv:

• have not been beaten in the league by CSKA 1948 in their previous 2 games.
• are winless against CSKA 1948 in their last 7 league games.

CSKA 1948

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CSKA 1948 go into this game following a 2-1 First League win against Lokomotiv Sofia in their last game.

The only name on the scoresheet from CSKA 1948 was Radoslav Kirilov (29', 53'). Dimitar Mitkov (12') was the scorer for Lokomotiv Sofia.

The strike force from CSKA 1948 have made hard work of scoring goals over their previous six games, contributing the disappointing return of just 3. In those matches, CSKA have also seen the overall goal tally of opposing teams equal 5.

Looking at the pre-match facts, CSKA 1948:

• have not been beaten by Lokomotiv Plovdiv in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league games.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 29/04/2022 shows that Lokomotiv Plovdiv have won 0 of these games & CSKA 1948 3, with the number of drawn results being 3.

A combined total of 10 goals were produced between them in these games, with 3 of them from Smarfovete and 7 being from CSKA. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.67.

The last league contest between these clubs was First League match day 15 on 26/10/2023 and the score finished CSKA 1948 1-1 Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

In that match, CSKA 1948 had 47% possession and 10 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player to score was Georgi Rusev (15').

For their opponents, Lokomotiv Plovdiv had 16 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Giovanny (44') scored.

The match was refereed by Ivajilo Stoyanov.

🗞️ Team News: Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just one fitness concern for the Lokomotiv Plovdiv gaffer Aleksandar Tomash to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust set of players. Yohan Baï (Partial muscle tear) misses out.

ℹ️ Team News: CSKA 1948

Thanks to a fully injury-free squad available to choose from, the CSKA 1948 boss Valentin Iliev has zero fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Lokomotiv Plovdiv will, in all likelihood, see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

At the same time, CSKA 1948 could well struggle finding the net themselves although we do think it’s probable that they will be seeing enough of the ball to score, too.

Therefore, we are anticipating a comfortable 3-1 margin for Lokomotiv Plovdiv by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

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

Lucas Pereira, 12:03 21/04/2024