Lokomotiv Plovdiv vs Slavia Sofia Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Lokomotiv Plovdiv

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Lokomotiv Plovdiv will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 2-0 First League losing effort in their last game against CSKA Sofia.

Ioannis Pittas (56', 64') scored 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 will go into this clash after a 4-2 First League win vs Botev Vratsa in their last outing.

For Slavia Sofia, the goalscorers 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

An examination of their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 05/12/2021 tells us that Lokomotiv Plovdiv have won 3 of them and Slavia Sofia 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 2.

An aggregate of 15 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 10 for Smarfovete and 5 netted by The White Avalanche. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The previous league fixture between the two was First League match day 15 on 09/11/2024 when it finished Slavia Sofia 2-1 Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

The match was refereed by Martin Velikov.

🗞️ Team News: Lokomotiv Plovdiv

There aren’t many selection issues, with just one fitness concern for the Lokomotiv Plovdiv manager Dušan Kosič to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust group. 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.

💵 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

In terms of the bookies’ odds on the 90 min. result market, backing Lokomotiv Plovdiv is best priced at 2.38, backing the game finishing all-square is 3 and putting your money on victory for Slavia Sofia will get you 3.2. Those are the best bets available right now.

Renata Leite, 10:02 16/04/2025