📏 Form Guide

Slavia Sofia

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Slavia Sofia will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 2-1 First League loss in their previous game against Arda Kardzhali.

The only scorer from Slavia Sofia was Kristiyan Stoyanov (35'). Boris Tyutyukov (9') and Stanislav Ivanov (12') scored for Arda Kardzhali.

It has not been often in recent games that Slavia Sofia have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Slavia Sofia have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 9 goals in the process.

Their previous form shows that Slavia Sofia:

• are winless against Hebar Pazardzhik in their last 2 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 3 matches in the league.

Hebar Pazardzhik

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Hebar Pazardzhik will come into the match after a 3-0 First League win to beat Etar Veliko Tarnovo in their most recent game.

For Hebar Pazardzhik, goals were scored by Mark-Emilio Papazov (17', 78') and Cheikh Diamanka (94').

Lyuboslav Penev's Hebar Pazardzhik have found the back of the net 9 times in the course of their previous six matches. The number of goals that have been scored against them during the equivalent period equals 8.

Ahead of this clash, Hebar Pazardzhik haven’t won away from home in the past 3 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

The last league contest between these sides was First League match day 14 on 22/10/2023 when the final score was Hebar Pazardzhik 1-0 Slavia Sofia.

On that day, Hebar Pazardzhik had 48% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer was Georgi Valchev (98').

On the other side, Slavia Sofia had 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target.

The referee was Stanislav Todorov.

🗞️ Team News: Slavia Sofia

Toni Tasev (Muscle strain) and Denislav Aleksandrov (unknown injury) will not be taking part for Slavia Sofia manager Zlatomir Zagorčić.

It seems likely that The White Avalanche will probably use a 4-1-4-1 system in the match, beginning the first half with Svetoslav Vutsov, Ertan Tombak, Martin Georgiev, Viktor Genev, Ventsislav Kerchev, Emil Martinov, Quentin Seedorf, Chung Nguyen Do, Ivan Minchev, Galin Ivanov and Vladimir Nikolov.

📰 Team News: Hebar Pazardzhik

With a fully healthy group available to choose from, the Hebar Pazardzhik boss Lyuboslav Penev does not have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this game.

It’s our belief that The Gravediggers seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 formation using Petar Debarliev, Martin Mihaylov, Stefan Tsonkov, Lazar Marin, Bojidar Penchev, Georgi Valchev, Johan N'zi, Mark-Emilio Papazov, Angel Bastunov, Nicholas Penev and Cheikh Diamanka.

💡 Prediction

It looks to us that Slavia Sofia will, in all likelihood, see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

At the other end, Hebar Pazardzhik are also probably going to find it difficult to find the back of the net although we do think that they will probably end up converting at least once as well.

We reckon that it will be a 3-1 winning score for Slavia Sofia come full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 14:10 13/04/2024