Botev vs Slavia Sofia Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Botev

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Botev, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-4 First League success versus Lokomotiv Sofia.

For Botev, goals were scored by Umeh Emmanuel (19', 42') and Dylan Mertens (65', 67').

An interesting theme in more recent Botev games is the high number of scores with a nil in them.

From their prior sextet of clashes leading up to this one, in as many as 6 of them a wager on BTTS would have been a losing one.

Slavia Sofia

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Krumovgrad in First League action, Slavia Sofia will be aiming to make amends here.

Serkan Yusein (36') and Patrick Luan (44') scored for Krumovgrad.

The numbers tell their own story, and Slavia Sofia have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 9 goals in total. Defensively, Slavia Sofia have seen their frailties exposed. Despite that, time will tell whether that trend will be replicated in this upcoming game or not.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 30/09/2022 shows that Botev have won 2 of these and Slavia Sofia 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 3.

A sum of 10 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from The Canaries and 4 created by The White Avalanche. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.67.

The last league clash between these sides was First League match day 23 on 02/03/2024 and the score finished Slavia Sofia 2-2 Botev.

In that game, Slavia Sofia had 42% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Their only player to score was Toni Tasev (10', 50').

On the other side, Botev had 12 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Yanis Karabelyov (48') and Georgi Nikolov (87') scored.

The referee was Volen Chinkov.

ℹ️ Team News: Botev

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Botev gaffer Dušan Kerkez to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength squad. Federico Barrios (Adductor injury) is out of contention.

ℹ️ Team News: Slavia Sofia

From a largely full-strength squad, there’s only the one fitness problem for the Slavia Sofia manager Zlatomir Zagorčić to be concerned with. Denislav Aleksandrov (unknown injury) misses out for this game.

✨ Prediction

Our feeling is that Botev have it within them to be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

Conversely, Slavia Sofia could well struggle to get a goal of their own but do we see them converting at least once.

Our tip is for a controlled 3-1 winning score for Botev 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, 21:11 24/04/2024