📏 Form Guide

Lokomotiv Plovdiv

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Lokomotiv Plovdiv will be hoping for a better result following the 2-0 First League defeat last time out to CSKA Sofia.

Ioannis Pittas (56', 64') was the scorer for CSKA Sofia.

Lokomotiv Plovdiv have found it difficult to unlock defences in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 3 versus opponents during their previous six matches. In those games, Lokomotiv Plovdiv have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them come to 6.

Slavia Sofia

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Slavia Sofia head into the match after a 4-2 First League win versus Botev Vratsa in their last fixture.

For Slavia Sofia, the scorers were Ventsislav Kerchev (5'), Vladimir Nikolov (55'), Chung Nguyen Do (61') and Ivan Minchev (72'). Brayan Perea (48') and Siriky Diabaté (59') scored for Botev Vratsa.

Over the course of their previous 6 clashes, Slavia Sofia have helped themselves to a tally of 14 goals. Slavia Sofia have also scored on each one of those occasions. In that time, they’ve had 13 goals go into their own net. That sort of trend won’t necessarily be sustained into this match, however.

Analysis of their past results shows that Slavia Sofia:

• haven't beaten Lokomotiv Plovdiv when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.
• are without an away win for the past 4 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head meetings going back to 05/12/2021 shows us that Lokomotiv Plovdiv have won 3 of these games and Slavia Sofia 1, with the number of drawn games being 2.

A total of 15 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 10 of them from Smarfovete and 5 being from The White Avalanche. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The last league clash featuring the two was First League match day 15 on 09/11/2024 when the final score was Slavia Sofia 2-1 Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

The match was refereed by Martin Velikov.

🗞️ Team News: Lokomotiv Plovdiv

There’s just the lone fitness concern for the Lokomotiv Plovdiv gaffer Dušan Kosič to be concerned about due to a largely intact squad. Kristiyan Peshov (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t play.

🧠 Prediction

In our opinion, Slavia Sofia have the firepower to put one past this Lokomotiv Plovdiv team, although it is unlikely to be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We reckon that it will be both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Lokomotiv Plovdiv at the end of the 90 minutes. It really should be an interesting one.

Renata Leite, 13:02 19/04/2025