📏 Form Guide

Lokomotiv Sofia

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Lokomotiv Sofia will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 6-0 First League losing effort in their last game against Ludogorets Razgrad.

Kwadwo Duah (2', 53'), Ivaylo Chochev (38'), Bernard Tekpetey (43'), Rwan Cruz (57') and Aslak Fonn Witry (88') scored for Ludogorets Razgrad.

It has been seldom in recent times where Lokomotiv Sofia haven’t conceded. The facts show that Lokomotiv Sofia have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 12 goals along the way. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this next game, of course.

Looking at their past form shows that Lokomotiv Sofia:

• are winless against CSKA Sofia in their previous 6 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 9 matches in the league. They will be so desperate to end this run.

CSKA Sofia

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CSKA Sofia come into this encounter following on from a 4-0 First League win with the downing of Botev in their previous game.

For CSKA Sofia, the scorers were Jonathan Lindseth (25'), Fernando Karanga (33', 42') and Matthias Phaëton (65').

A series of outstanding showings by the CSKA Sofia defence has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 3 from their previous 6 fixtures combined. During the same time, their own attack force has managed to score 12.

Pre-game facts show that CSKA Sofia:

• are winless against Lokomotiv Sofia when they've played them away from home in the last 6 league matches. Not the best of away records.
• haven't been defeated by Lokomotiv Sofia in away games against them for the last 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 23/05/2015 tells us that Lokomotiv Sofia have won 0 of these & CSKA Sofia 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 4.

A total of 10 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 3 of them for The Railwaymen and 7 belonging to The Army Men. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.67.

The previous league contest featuring these clubs was First League match day 11 on 28/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of CSKA Sofia 2-0 Lokomotiv Sofia.

That time, CSKA Sofia had 62% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Michael Estrada (40', 45').

Lokomotiv Sofia got 6 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Kristiyan Kolev.

ℹ️ Team News: Lokomotiv Sofia

Aleksandar Lyubenov (Broken cheekbone) and Baboucarr Gaye (Knee injury) won’t be available for Lokomotiv Sofia boss Danilo Dončić.

📋 Team News: CSKA Sofia

Owing to a completely injury-free squad to choose from, the CSKA Sofia boss Nestor El Maestro has zero fitness worries to report ahead of this match.

🧠 Prediction

In this game, CSKA Sofia look set to score at least a few goals against Lokomotiv Sofia, who may well struggle to break down their defence.

Things might really get out of hand.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a controlled 0-3 victory with possibly even more for CSKA Sofia at the end of the match.

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

Andre Moura, 16:15 30/03/2024