Slavia Sofia make the trip to Stadion Lokomotiv on Sunday for the First League meeting with home side Lokomotiv Sofia.
All Lokomotiv Sofia v Slavia Sofia game predictions, stats and user poll are shown below - along with the latest match odds.
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Form Guide
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Lokomotiv Sofia
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Lokomotiv Sofia will be hoping to bounce back here following the 1-0 First League defeat in their last game at the hands of CSKA Sofia.
Olaus Skarsem (26') was the scorer for CSKA Sofia.
In their preceding six fixtures, Anton Velkov's Lokomotiv Sofia have managed to score 9 times resulting in an average number of goals scored per match of 1.5.
Heading into this fixture, Lokomotiv Sofia are winless against Slavia Sofia in their previous 2 league games.
Slavia Sofia
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Since being beaten in their last game against Septemvri Sofia in First League competition, Slavia Sofia will be aiming to make amends here.
For Slavia Sofia, goals were scored by Roberto Raychev (42') and Quentin Seedorf (62' Own goal, 80'). Xandro Schenk (36') and Borislav Rupanov (78') scored for Septemvri Sofia.
Slavia Sofia have attacked well leading up to this encounter, scoring 12 goals in their previous 6 matches. Having said that, Slavia Sofia can also improve defensively after being scored against in 6 of those same clashes. However, weโll just have to find out if the trend shall continue on in this game.
Their previous form shows that Slavia Sofia:
- haven't been beaten by Lokomotiv Sofia in away games against them for the last 2 league games.
- are unbeaten in their previous 4 away league matches.
- havenโt won away from home in the past 3 league matches.
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Head to head
Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 17/03/2023 shows us that Lokomotiv Sofia have won 2 of these games & Slavia Sofia 3, with the tally of draws being 1.
A combined total of 16 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 7 of them from The Railwaymen and 9 created by The White Avalanche. Thatโs an average goals per game of 2.67.
The last league contest featuring the two was First League match day 13 on 24/10/2024 when it ended Slavia Sofia 3-2 Lokomotiv Sofia.
The match was refereed by Vladimir Valkov.
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Team News: Lokomotiv Sofia
Itโs a low absenteeism rate, with just the lone fitness concern for the Lokomotiv Sofia manager Ratko Dostaniฤ to be concerned with from a near full-strength squad. Donaldo Acka (Torn knee ligaments) wonโt play.
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Prediction
We believe that Slavia Sofia and Lokomotiv Sofia may well both score, with little between these two teams.
A close call, and we think a draw is quite likely. Our tip is therefore for a very close game with a 1-1 score draw at the end of this game.
Andre Moura,
22:04 03/04/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
โฝ๏ธ Team Focus:
Lokomotiv Sofia
Formed: 1929
Stadium: Stadion Lokomotiv (22,000)
Captain: Aleksandar Lyubenov
Chairman: Veselin Stoyanov
Manager: Anton Velkov
Competitions: First League position 13
๐ Key Man: Ante Aralica
Usually deployed in the Striker position, Ante Aralica was born in Zagreb, Croatia. Having played his first senior match for Lokomotiva Zagreb in the 2015 - 2016 season, the talented Forward has contributed 11 league goals in the First League 2024 - 2025 campaign to date in a total of 21 appearances.