Parva Liga preview and statistics: Beroe - Botev Plovdiv at Stadion Beroe

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Competition: Bulgaria Parva Liga
Competition: Sat 12.December
Match begins: 10:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Beroe (12000 seats)

With their 7 point advantage in the league table, Beroe fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Botev Plovdiv.

Insights:
  • Beroe have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Botev Plovdiv has the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Parva Liga

There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Parva Liga match only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Levski Sofia, was also a home game here at Stadion Beroe. The away team is better rested.

This pitch has grass, which is not Botev Plovdiv's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Botev Plovdiv have performed like this: Played 38 matches resulting in 9 wins, 9 draws and 20 defeats with the goal stats 37-61 (scored/conceded).

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Beroe form and stats

Beroe have played 6 Parva Liga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).

A nice win for Beroe last time playing, versus Levski Sofia. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with Alioune Fall (2) scoring for the victors. Prior to that, an away loss at CSKA 1948 Sofia.

Beroe are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found three matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won two, drew zero and lost one.

The manager D. Dimitrov will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Tsarsko selo in only four days.

The Beroe manager D. Dimitrov has got the team scoring with 13 from 6 home games in the league. From these home matches, Beroe have conceded only 5 goals.

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Botev Plovdiv form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Botev Plovdiv, who have the most conceded goals (19) away in Parva Liga, so far with only 1 point returning home. The records show 0-1-5 (win-draw-lose).

The attacking players of Plovdiv have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 384 minutes.

Home advantage was not enough for Plovdiv in their previous game, as they lost their Parva Liga-match, hosting CSKA Sofia, 0-3. Before that, Botev Plovdiv travelled to Slavia Sofia and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

You'll want to know how Plovdiv managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found seven similar matches resulting in zero away wins, three draws and four home wins.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Plovdiv as they have only managed to score 4 times from 6 away games in the league. There are big problems for the Plovdiv defense as they have conceded 19 goals in 6 away games.

Head 2 Head

Botev Plovdiv - Beroe 3-3 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Beroe victories, three draws and three Botev Plovdiv wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Botev PlovdivA. Iliev
A. Iliev
8 goals
BeroeA. Fall
A. Fall
7 goals
BeroeG. Makouta
G. Makouta
5 goals

Beroe missing players

Botev Plovdiv missing players

Beroe Botev Plovdiv
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 6 1 Played P 1 6 14
6 3 1 Won W 0 0 3
3 1 0 Drew D 0 1 5
4 2 0 Lost L 1 5 6
24 13 2 Scored S 0 4 14
14 5 1 Conceded C 5 19 27
92% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 79%
77% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 79%
46% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 57%
38% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 67% 36%
23% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 50% 29%
38% 33% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 43%
38% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 36%
31% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 43%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 1.8 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.8 3.3
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 3 3
 
9.8 10.2 5 Shots (avg) S ( 9 7.5 8.6
4.2 4.8 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.2 3.4
44% 45% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 21% 29%
Key stats in Parva Liga this season:
  • Beroe have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Beroe have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Beroe have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Botev Plovdiv have scored away.
  • Botev Plovdiv has the most conceded goals (19) away in Parva Liga
  • Botev Plovdiv has the most dropped points from leading position (10) in Parva Liga
  • Botev Plovdiv has the the worst goal difference (-15) away in Parva Liga
  • Botev Plovdiv have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Botev Plovdiv have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Botev Plovdiv have yet to win a game away.

  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 13 10 2 1 29 10 6 5 1 0 12 3 7 5 1 1 17 7 19 32
2 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 15 9 3 3 28 14 7 4 3 0 15 6 8 5 0 3 13 8 14 30
3 CSKA Sofia 14 7 6 1 23 14 6 4 2 0 9 4 8 3 4 1 14 10 9 27
4 Arda 14 7 6 1 20 11 6 4 2 0 12 5 8 3 4 1 8 6 9 27
5 CSKA 1948 Sofia 15 6 5 4 23 16 8 5 1 2 20 9 7 1 4 2 3 7 7 23
6 Beroe 13 6 3 4 24 14 6 3 1 2 13 5 7 3 2 2 11 9 10 21
7 Cherno More 15 6 3 6 21 20 8 4 1 3 13 11 7 2 2 3 8 9 1 21
8 Tsarsko selo 14 4 4 6 11 14 6 2 2 2 5 5 8 2 2 4 6 9 -3 16
9 Botev Vratsa 14 4 3 7 16 20 7 3 2 2 11 5 7 1 1 5 5 15 -4 15
10 Levski Sofia 14 4 2 8 15 15 8 3 1 4 8 8 6 1 1 4 7 7 0 14
11 Botev Plovdiv 14 3 5 6 14 27 8 3 4 1 10 8 6 0 1 5 4 19 -13 14
12 Montana 14 3 3 8 16 30 8 3 1 4 14 18 6 0 2 4 2 12 -14 12
13 Etar 15 2 4 9 11 31 7 1 2 4 6 14 8 1 2 5 5 17 -20 10
14 Slavia Sofia 14 2 3 9 8 23 8 2 3 3 3 7 6 0 0 6 5 16 -15 9

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.