📏 Form Guide

Slavia Sofia

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Slavia Sofia fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 0-1 First League victory vs Krumovgrad.

The only name on the scoresheet from Slavia Sofia was Ivan Minchev (30').

Zlatomir Zagorčić's Slavia Sofia have hit the target 6 times over their prior 6 outings. The tally of goals that have been scored against them in those same fixtures is 6.

Their previous form shows that Slavia Sofia:

• are unbeaten in the league by Lokomotiv Plovdiv in their previous 2 matches.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league matches.

Lokomotiv Plovdiv

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Since being beaten in their last game against Botev Vratsa in First League action, Lokomotiv Plovdiv will be aiming to make amends here.

The only player to score from Lokomotiv Plovdiv was Efe Ali (9'). Daniel Genov (38', 70') and Martin Smolenski (75') scored for Botev Vratsa.

The stats don’t lie, and Lokomotiv Plovdiv have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals overall. Defensively, Lokomotiv Plovdiv have not been doing too well. That aside, we’ll just have to find out if such a trend might continue on in this upcoming match or not.

Coming into this contest, Lokomotiv Plovdiv have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 17/10/2022 tells us that Slavia Sofia have won 2 of these games and Lokomotiv Plovdiv 3, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

A sum of 14 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 5 for The White Avalanche and 9 coming from Smarfovete. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was First League match day 30 on 19/04/2025 when it finished Lokomotiv Plovdiv 0-1 Slavia Sofia.

The referee was Dragomir Draganov.

📰 Team News: Slavia Sofia

It seems likely that The White Avalanche will possibly employ a 4-1-4-1 system for this game, utilising Ivan Andonov, Artem Varganov, Martin Georgiev, Viktor Genev, Jordan Varela, Emil Martinov, Denislav Aleksandrov, Kristiyan Stoyanov, Chung Nguyen Do, Roberto Raychev and Marko Miletic.

ℹ️ Team News: Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Owing to an otherwise available group of players, there is only the lone fitness problem for the Lokomotiv Plovdiv gaffer Dušan Kosič to contend with. Kristiyan Peshov (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be in action.

We reckon that Smarfovete will likely utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation using Bojan Milosavljevic, Patryk Stepinski, Kaloyan Kostov, Jorge Segura, Angel Lyaskov, Efe Ali, Ivaylo Ivanov, Julien Lamy, Parvizdzhon Umarbaev, Juan Perea and Lovro Bizjak.

💡 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Slavia Sofia will have to play well to get anything against this Lokomotiv Plovdiv team who we think will score & stay on top.

We’re therefore expecting a narrow 0-1 winning margin for Lokomotiv Plovdiv at the conclusion of the game.

Expecting it to be tight.

Lucas Pereira, 17:04 19/05/2025