📏 Form Guide

CSKA Sofia

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CSKA Sofia will be looking for another win after the 0-2 First League triumph vs Levski Sofia.

For CSKA Sofia, the goalscorers were Tobias Heintz (61') and Fernando Karanga (77').

Their most recent results show that there has been much resilience in the CSKA Sofia defence. CSKA Sofia have been miserly, with the total number of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper during their previous six games standing at 3.

Pirin

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Ludogorets Razgrad in First League action, Pirin will be aiming to make amends here.

The only name on the scoresheet from Pirin was Nikolay Bodurov (58' Own goal). Pedro Naressi (74') was the scorer for Ludogorets Razgrad.

In the course of their six most recent matches, Oleksandr Babych's Pirin have found the net a total of 5 times - earning them a goals scored per game average of 0.83.

Their prior results show that Pirin:

• have not been beaten in their last 4 league matches away from home.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on past results between these clubs going back to 11/03/2018 shows that these fixtures have been a source of anguish for Pirin. They have not managed to get themselves any victories at all whereas CSKA Sofia have managed to find a way, winning in 83% of those ties.

A sum of 13 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 for The Army Men and 4 for Orletata. That’s an average goals per game of 2.17.

The previous league contest featuring the two was First League match day 14 on 21/10/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Pirin 1-2 CSKA Sofia.

On that occasion, Pirin managed 44% possession and 7 shots at goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Ivan Tasev (45').

On the other side, CSKA Sofia got 19 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Matthias Phaëton (79') and Jonathan Lindseth (80') scored.

The referee was Dragomir Draganov.

🗞️ Team News: CSKA Sofia

The CSKA Sofia manager Nestor El Maestro will be grateful to have no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game thanks to a fully healthy group ready to go.

🗞️ Team News: Pirin

Pirin boss Oleksandr Babych has to choose a team with limited availability. Andrey Yordanov (Calf injury), Aleksandar Dyulgerov (Broken nose bone), Ilian Kostov (unknown injury) and Aymen Souda (unknown injury) are those who can’t be considered. Hristo Popadiyn will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

🔮 Prediction

It looks to us like Pirin aren’t likely to put even one past this CSKA Sofia lineup who will more than likely dominate completely.

We’re going for a very comprehensive 4-0 belting (at least) for CSKA Sofia when all is said and done.

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

Andre Moura, 17:05 12/04/2024