National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Slavia Sofia or OFK Pirin that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Slavia Sofia form and stats
Last season, Slavia Sofia's Bulgarian Cup journey ended in the semi-finals against Arda.When playing at home in the Parva Liga, Slavia Sofia have managed 3 wins, 2 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 5 games. The last three games played by Slavia Sofia, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.
Slavia shared the glory with Arda in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Cherno More that finished 1-1.Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Parva Liga game versus Botev Vratsa in only three days. This game is also played here at Stadion Slavija.
The Slavia Sofia fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 7 in 5 matches. Slavia have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
OFK Pirin form and stats
Pirin's mission in Bulgarian Cup last season failed in the 16th finals.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for OFK Pirin so far with only 1 point returning home. The records show 0-1-6 (win-draw-lose). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Pirin have lost on their last two travels.
Two away games in a row for Pirin, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-3 versus Levski Sofia in the Parva Liga.
It was a Parva Liga defeat before that one as the away game against Lokomotiv Plovdiv wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.After this away game Pirin return home for a Parva Liga game against Tsarsko selo. That game is only four sleeps after this.
The attacking power of OFK Pirin when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 7 league matches away. The Pirin manager W. Feeney has some worries about the defense as 14 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings with these sides: Slavia won six, OFK Pirin triumphed in two and we saw two draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with less than 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  S. Yordanov Kostov 5 goals | K. Stanoev 4 goals |  R. Kirilov Kirilov 3 goals |
Slavia Sofia missing players
OFK Pirin missing players
| Slavia Sofia | OFK Pirin | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 10 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 11 | ||
| 36 | 19 | Scored | S | 16 | 44 | ||
| 19 | 10 | Conceded | C | 19 | 37 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 88% | ||
| 32% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 72% | ||
| 16% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 8% | 40% | ||
| 4% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 48% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 24% | ||
| 20% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 20% | ||
| 5.4 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.2 | ||
| 5.6 | 5.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 4.6 | ||
| 2.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 9.8 | 10.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.6 | 8.9 | ||
| 3.8 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.7 | ||
| 38% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 21% | 41% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ludogorets | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 21 | 24 |
| 2 | CSKA Sofia | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 22 |
| 3 | Botev Plovdiv | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 21 |
| 4 | Slavia Sofia | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 20 |
| 5 | Cherno More | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 18 |
| 6 | Beroe | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -1 | 16 |
| 7 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 14 |
| 8 | Levski Sofia | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -3 | 14 |
| 9 | Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 13 | -6 | 13 |
| 10 | Arda | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 11 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | -7 | 11 |
| 12 | Botev Vratsa | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -8 | 11 |
| 13 | Tsarsko selo | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -9 | 9 |
| 14 | OFK Pirin | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 14 | -8 | 8 |