📊 Form Guide

Slavia Sofia

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Slavia Sofia will be hoping to bounce back here after a 3-2 First League loss in their previous game against Botev Vratsa.

For Slavia Sofia, the scorers were Ventsislav Kerchev (32') and Karl Fabien (52'). Miroslav Marinov (46'), David Suárez (73') and Danylo Kondrakov (80') scored for Botev Vratsa.

It has been a rare occasion in recent times where Slavia Sofia have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Slavia Sofia have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 8 goals in the process.

Leading up to this clash, Slavia Sofia:

• have not emerged victorious against Lokomotiv Plovdiv in their last 5 league matches.
• are undefeated in their last 2 league matches at home.

Lokomotiv Plovdiv

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In their last game, Lokomotiv Plovdiv drew 2-2 in the First League tie with CSKA Sofia.

For Lokomotiv Plovdiv, goals were scored by Dimitar Iliev (15') and Juan Perea (51'). Goduine Koyalipou (34') and Zymer Bytyqi (92') scored for CSKA Sofia.

For 5 of the past 6 games involving Lokomotiv Plovdiv, a notably low volume of goals have been struck between them and opposing teams. The overall average goals scored per game in that period comes to a meagre 1.67, with the number of goals averaged by Smarfovete standing at 0.33. However, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern might be replicated in this next match.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Lokomotiv Plovdiv:

• haven't been beaten by Slavia Sofia when they have played them away from home in the previous 7 league games. An impressive run.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 22/08/2021 tells us that Slavia Sofia have won 1 of these and Lokomotiv Plovdiv 3, with the tally of draws being 2.

An aggregate of 13 goals were scored between them in these games, with 4 of them for The White Avalanche and 9 belonging to Smarfovete. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The last league match between these sides was First League match day 25 on 16/03/2024 when it finished Slavia Sofia 1-2 Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

The match was refereed by Valentin Zhelezov.

📋 Team News: Slavia Sofia

We are thinking that The White Avalanche will possibly kick off with a 4-2-3-1 system for this one, handing starts to Svetoslav Vutsov, Ertan Tombak, Martin Georgiev, Veljko Jelenkovic, Quentin Seedorf, Chung Nguyen Do, Ivan Minchev, Denislav Aleksandrov, Vladimir Nikolov, Karl Fabien and Tsvetelin Chunchukov.

📋 Team News: Lokomotiv Plovdiv

In an otherwise full-strength group of players, there is just the sole fitness problem for the Lokomotiv Plovdiv gaffer Hristo Zlatinski to be concerned about. Petar Andreev (Cruciate ligament tear) misses out for this game.

We believe Smarfovete will likely elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup, settling for Martin Lukov, Oliver Kamdem, Kaloyan Kostov, Jorge Segura, Angel Lyaskov, Efe Ali, Ivaylo Ivanov, Julien Lamy, Dimitar Iliev, Marcilio and Juan Perea.

⚡ Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Lokomotiv Plovdiv will have their work cut out to breach the defence of this Slavia Sofia team who we reckon will be able to grind out a win.

We’re therefore predicting a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 win for Slavia Sofia at the end of the match.

It should be a good one.

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

Peter Guest, 10:11 09/11/2024