Football betting preview: Arda vs CSKA Sofia

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Competition: Bulgaria Parva Liga
Competition: Thu 16.December
Match begins: 14:30 (UTC)
Venue: Arena Arda (15000 seats)

CSKA Sofia can not count on any gifts from the home team Arda in this Parva Liga fixture. Here's our comprehensive match guide!

Insights:
  • Arda have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • CSKA Sofia have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Parva Liga

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Parva Liga.

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Arda form and stats

Overall Parva Liga results at home this season for Arda are 3-3-1 (wins-draws-losses).

The fans are hoping that Arda will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Parva Liga game against Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 (placed 12th).

Before that, Arda had a home game versus Tsarsko selo which ended with a victory 2-0.

Arda are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 7 games. 7 goals have been conceded.

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CSKA Sofia form and stats

CSKA Sofia's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed CSKA Sofia collect 14 points from their 7 away matches in the Parva Liga. 4 victories and 2 draws have created these points (and only 1 defeat).

Sofia won their last game, 2-0 versus Cherno More played at home.

A loss against Roma was the result prior to that, in a Europa Conference League home game.

After this away game CSKA Sofia return home for a Parva Liga game against Ludogorets. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Sofia are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 12 times in 7 away games so far. As opposed to that, CSKA Sofia have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The fixture history shows this score when the contenders faced each other previously this season; CSKA Sofia - Arda 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Arda zero wins, three draws and CSKA Sofia six victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

CSKA SofiaJ. Caicedo Medina
J. Caicedo Medina
10 goals
ArdaS. Delev
S. Delev
5 goals
ArdaT. Yordanov
T. Yordanov
4 goals

Arda missing players

CSKA Sofia missing players

Arda CSKA Sofia
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 7 1 Played P 1 7 16
5 3 0 Won W 0 4 11
6 3 0 Drew D 1 2 3
6 1 1 Lost L 0 1 2
19 10 0 Scored S 0 12 27
21 7 3 Conceded C 0 8 16
82% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 86% 94%
76% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 71% 75%
41% 43% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 43% 44%
18% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 25%
18% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 29% 19%
47% 43% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 57% 56%
35% 43% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 29% 38%
35% 29% 100% Failed to Score F T 100% 29% 12%
 
5.1 6.3 5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5.3 6.1
4.3 4.9 6 Corners against (avg) C A 2 5.4 4.6
2.5 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.4 2.6
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
9.5 11 8 Shots (avg) S ( 8 12.3 13.2
4 4.7 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 5.3 5.6
28% 30% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 32% 30%
 
9.2 6 10 Shots against (avg) S A 13 8.7 8.5
3.5 2.3 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 3.1 3.6
Key stats in Parva Liga this season:
  • Arda have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Arda have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • CSKA Sofia have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Parva Liga

  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 16 14 0 2 43 12 9 9 0 0 26 2 7 5 0 2 17 10 31 42
2 CSKA Sofia 16 11 3 2 27 16 9 7 1 1 15 8 7 4 2 1 12 8 11 36
3 Cherno More 19 8 8 3 22 13 9 4 4 1 9 4 10 4 4 2 13 9 9 32
4 Botev Plovdiv 19 9 5 5 23 21 10 8 0 2 18 12 9 1 5 3 5 9 2 32
5 Slavia Sofia 19 7 8 4 22 17 9 4 4 1 9 6 10 3 4 3 13 11 5 29
6 Levski Sofia 19 7 5 7 22 22 9 4 2 3 13 10 10 3 3 4 9 12 0 26
7 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 19 6 7 6 22 22 10 3 4 3 13 15 9 3 3 3 9 7 0 25
8 Beroe 19 7 4 8 19 20 10 5 4 1 9 6 9 2 0 7 10 14 -1 25
9 Arda 17 5 6 6 19 21 7 3 3 1 10 7 10 2 3 5 9 14 -2 21
10 CSKA 1948 Sofia 19 5 4 10 24 32 10 5 2 3 18 13 9 0 2 7 6 19 -8 19
11 Botev Vratsa 19 4 7 8 20 28 9 2 6 1 8 7 10 2 1 7 12 21 -8 19
12 Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 18 4 6 8 17 29 9 4 2 3 11 12 9 0 4 5 6 17 -12 18
13 OFK Pirin 18 3 4 11 22 32 9 3 2 4 17 16 9 0 2 7 5 16 -10 13
14 Tsarsko selo 19 2 5 12 11 28 9 2 2 5 7 12 10 0 3 7 4 16 -17 11

Read more about Parva Liga

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.