Slavia Sofia vs Ludogorets Razgrad Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Slavia Sofia

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Slavia Sofia, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-2 First League success over Levski Sofia.

In that match, Slavia Sofia managed 42% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 2 on target. For Slavia Sofia, the goalscorers were Emil Viyachki (77') and Erol Dost (89'). Levski Sofia had 15 shots at goal with 4 on target. Ivelin Popov (20') scored for Levski Sofia.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games where Slavia Sofia have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Slavia Sofia have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 8 goals during that time.

Going into this one, Slavia Sofia have not won against Ludogorets Razgrad in their last 2 matches in the league.

Ludogorets Razgrad

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In their previous fixture, Ludogorets Razgrad drew 1-1 in the First League tie with CSKA 1948.

In that match, Ludogorets Razgrad managed 55% possession and 22 shots on goal with 9 on target. The only player to score for Ludogorets Razgrad was Bernard Tekpetey (76'). At the other end, CSKA 1948 got 9 shots at goal with 4 on target. Radoslav Kirilov (83') scored for CSKA 1948.

The numbers tell their own story, and Ludogorets Razgrad have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 8 goals overall. In defence, Ludogorets Razgrad have been far from perfect. Putting that to one side, we will just have to wait and see if that trend will be replicated here in this game.

Coming into this clash, Ludogorets Razgrad are undefeated in their last 9 league matches away from home. They've been so good on the road.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head clashes going back to 12/07/2020 tells us that Slavia Sofia have won 2 of these games and Ludogorets Razgrad 4, with the tally of drawn matches being 0.

A combined total of 19 goals were produced between them in this period, with 6 of them from The White Avalanche and 13 being from The Eagles. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.

The previous league match between these sides was First League match day 1 on 17/04/2022 which ended up with the score at Ludogorets Razgrad 4-1 Slavia Sofia.

On that day, Ludogorets Razgrad managed 54% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. The goalscorers were Bernard Tekpetey (16', 54') and Matías Tissera (23').

At the other end, Slavia Sofia got 8 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Gjoko Zajkov (14' Own goal) and Jon Bakero (78') scored.

The referee was Valdimir Valkov.

📋 Team News: Slavia Sofia

The Slavia Sofia boss Zlatomir Zagorčić will be grateful to have no fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash owing to a fully healthy squad to choose from. Ertan Tombak cannot play in this game through suspension.

📋 Team News: Ludogorets Razgrad

Due to a fully injury-free squad to pick from, the Ludogorets Razgrad boss Ante Šimundža has zero fitness concerns to report ahead of this clash.

💭 Prediction

In our view, Slavia Sofia must be fancied to put a goal past this Ludogorets Razgrad team, although just one goal might not be enough to give them the result that they want.

We’re going for a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 winning score for Ludogorets Razgrad when the full-time whistle blows. It should be a decent one.

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

Lucas Pereira, 11:15 25/11/2022