First League preview of Hebar 1918 - CSKA Sofia: Visitors believed to win

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Competition: Bulgaria First League
Competition: Thu 04.May
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Georgi Benkovski (13128 seats)

Hebar 1918 have fought quite a few losing battles for points this season. Will the team get some when CSKA Sofia stop by Stadion Georgi Benkovski?

Insights:
  • Hebar 1918 have the fewest scored goals (17) in First League
  • CSKA Sofia have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in First League

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a First League game only four days ago.

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Hebar 1918 form and stats

With 1 First League win, 3 draws and 10 defeats from their home games, Hebar 1918 are certainly not brimming with confidence. With eight home First League games in a row without a win, the Hebar 1918 fans could feel they are not getting value for their money.

A good away victory last time out for Hebar 1918, who won 4-1 against Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 (placed 9th). A huge relief, as that was the first league win after failing to win six games in a row.

Preceding that match was the home game against Arda that was lost 0-1.

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Hebar 1918 had similar winning odds as today, and found 4 games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 4. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Hebar 1918 lost 2 similar games by at least two goals.

It should be considered that a peek at the 10 most recent league matches shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Hebar are traveling soon after this match as the First League match at Beroe awaits in four days.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Hebar 1918 here at Stadion Georgi Benkovski in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (8 from 14 games). Hebar 1918 have conceded 23 from these games.

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CSKA Sofia form and stats

The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 11 wins, 1 draw and only 2 losses in the First League. CSKA Sofia are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played ten in a row without losing.

Sofia might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Ludogorets proved too strong as CSKA Sofia slumped to a 0-1 defeat in front of their own fans at Stadion Bâlgarska Armija. That loss broke this team's string of league fixtures in a row without losing; 16 games in all!

Prior to that result CSKA Sofia won their away game at OFK Pirin. The scoreline was 1-0.

Few goals the story here? 11 of this club's last 13 league matches have had two or less goals.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Botev Vratsa in just four days.

CSKA Sofia are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 23 times in 14 away games so far. Sofia are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 7 times in 14 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

CSKA Sofia - Hebar 1918 4-0 was the story when these squads last met, some time ago this season. Stats for the previous two meetings involving these two sides are: zero wins for Hebar, zero draws and two wins for CSKA Sofia. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: zero games.

Top Goalscorers

CSKA SofiaD. Nazon
D. Nazon
12 goals
CSKA SofiaM. Garcez
M. Garcez
8 goals
Hebar 1918G. Tartov
G. Tartov
3 goals

Hebar 1918 missing players

CSKA Sofia missing players

Hebar 1918 CSKA Sofia
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
28 14 4 Played P 5 14 28
5 1 0 Won W 5 11 21
5 3 0 Drew D 0 1 4
18 10 4 Lost L 0 2 3
17 8 1 Scored S 11 23 48
47 23 7 Conceded C 1 7 13
89% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
61% 64% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 40% 57% 57%
39% 43% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 29% 36%
25% 21% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 21% 21%
11% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 7% 7%
32% 43% 25% BTTS BTTS 20% 29% 32%
21% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 80% 64% 61%
57% 57% 75% Failed to Score F T 0% 7% 14%
 
2.5 2.1 0.8 Corners for (avg) C F 6.8 4.4 4.4
6.1 6.9 9 Corners against (avg) C A 4.4 3.4 2.8
2.6 2.4 3.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.4 3.9 3.2
3 1 0 Red cards R C 1 3 3
 
5.7 6 4.2 Shots (avg) S ( 12.2 9.1 9.8
2.3 2.2 1.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.4 4.1 4.2
27% 26% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 34% 40% 41%
 
13.9 13 19.5 Shots against (avg) S A 5.2 7.4 5.9
5.4 5 7.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.4 2.6 2.1
Key stats in First League this season:
  • CSKA Sofia have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • CSKA Sofia have scored more than double the goals of Hebar 1918.
  • CSKA Sofia have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in First League
  • CSKA Sofia have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in First League
  • CSKA Sofia haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Hebar 1918 have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Hebar 1918 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Hebar 1918 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hebar 1918 have the fewest points (6) at home in First League
  • Hebar 1918 have the fewest scored goals (17) in First League
  • Hebar 1918 have the fewest scored goals in the first half (7) in First League
  • Hebar 1918 have the most conceded goals (23) at home in First League
  • Hebar 1918 have the the worst goal difference (-15) at home in First League

  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 28 21 5 2 68 20 14 10 3 1 35 9 14 11 2 1 33 11 48 68
2 CSKA Sofia 28 21 4 3 48 13 14 10 3 1 25 6 14 11 1 2 23 7 35 67
3 CSKA 1948 Sofia 28 17 7 4 46 18 14 11 2 1 25 7 14 6 5 3 21 11 28 58
4 Levski Sofia 28 14 9 5 36 13 14 9 3 2 21 4 14 5 6 3 15 9 23 51
5 Cherno More 28 14 7 7 31 23 14 7 4 3 17 12 14 7 3 4 14 11 8 49
6 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 28 13 7 8 31 27 14 9 2 3 21 11 14 4 5 5 10 16 4 46
7 Slavia Sofia 28 14 3 11 29 26 14 8 3 3 17 11 14 6 0 8 12 15 3 45
8 Arda 28 11 7 10 30 29 14 7 3 4 20 15 14 4 4 6 10 14 1 40
9 Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 28 10 7 11 30 35 14 7 3 4 17 19 14 3 4 7 13 16 -5 37
10 Botev Plovdiv 28 8 5 15 34 36 14 6 3 5 21 13 14 2 2 10 13 23 -2 29
11 Beroe 28 7 6 15 25 43 14 5 2 7 15 21 14 2 4 8 10 22 -18 27
12 Botev Vratsa 28 6 7 15 20 49 14 5 4 5 8 15 14 1 3 10 12 34 -29 25
13 Septemvri Sofia 28 5 7 16 25 42 14 2 5 7 10 19 14 3 2 9 15 23 -17 22
14 OFK Pirin 28 4 9 15 18 35 14 3 5 6 12 18 14 1 4 9 6 17 -17 21
15 Hebar 1918 28 5 5 18 17 47 14 1 3 10 8 23 14 4 2 8 9 24 -30 20
16 Spartak Varna 28 3 7 18 22 54 14 3 3 8 13 22 14 0 4 10 9 32 -32 16

Read more about First League

The First Professional Football League, also known as the Parva Liga, is the top level of football in Bulgaria. It has 14 teams playing a regular season of 26 fixtures to set a league table. The top six then enter a championship playoff, the bottom eight a relegation group.