📊 Form Guide

Pirin

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Pirin enter this match following on from a 0-0 First League stalemate vs Slavia Sofia.

Oleksandr Babych's Pirin have found the net a sum total of 7 times in their last six outings. At the other end, the number of goals that have been scored against them in those fixtures stands at 5.

Going into this contest, Pirin are undefeated in their last 2 home league matches.

Ludogorets Razgrad

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Ludogorets Razgrad will go into this clash following on from a 5-1 First League win with the downing of Levski Sofia in their most recent match.

For Ludogorets Razgrad, goals were scored by Rwan Cruz (3'), Georgi Terziev (47'), Jakub Piotrowski (56'), Kwadwo Duah (63') and Caio Vidal (92'). Marin Petkov (16') was the scorer for Levski Sofia.

The trend of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Ludogorets Razgrad has been noticeable recently. Examining their last 6 games shows that this has happened 5 times. During these clashes, their opponents have managed a goal tally of 2 and Ludogorets Razgrad have scored 14.

Coming into this clash, Ludogorets Razgrad are unbeaten in their last 9 league matches away from home. What an impressive run of results.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 11/12/2017 shows us that Pirin have won 2 of these games & Ludogorets Razgrad 4, with the number of draws being 0.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 23 overall at an average of 3.83 goals per match.

The previous league match featuring the two was First League match day 13 on 08/10/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Ludogorets Razgrad 4-0 Pirin.

On that occasion, Ludogorets Razgrad had 64% possession and 25 attempts on goal with 11 of them on target. The scorers were Spas Delev (6'), Jakub Piotrowski (61'), Rwan Cruz (65') and Caio Vidal (79').

On the other side, Pirin got 4 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Valdimir Valkov.

🗞️ Team News: Pirin

The Pirin manager Oleksandr Babych does not have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this match owing to a fully injury-free squad available for selection.

It seems likely that Orletata look set to use a 4-2-3-1 system, handing starts to Maksym Kovalyov, Asen Donchev, Vitalijs Jagodinskis, Nikolay Bodurov, Georgi Varbanov, Arnaud Luzayadio, Ayoub Abou, Ivan Tasev, Ventsislav Bengyuzov, Danylo Polonskyi and Hugo Komano.

🗞️ Team News: Ludogorets Razgrad

Thanks to a mainly full-strength group, there is just the one fitness issue for the Ludogorets Razgrad boss Georgi Dermendzhiev to be concerned about. Anton Nedyalkov (Herniated disc) won’t be playing here.

There’s a good chance that The Eagles could decide to play in a 4-2-3-1 system, settling for Sergio Padt, Georgi Terziev, Dinis Almeida, Olivier Verdon, Son, Pedrinho, Claude Goncalves, Bernard Tekpetey, Todor Nedelev, Rick and Kwadwo Duah.

💡 Prediction

We believe that Pirin are likely to score a goal against this Ludogorets Razgrad lineup, but one goal probably shouldn’t be enough.

We’ve gone for both teams to score in a 1-2 winning margin for Ludogorets Razgrad when the referee blows the final whistle. There looks to be little in this one.

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

Peter Guest, 17:06 07/04/2024