Soccer betting preview: Botev Plovdiv welcomes Slavia Sofia in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Bulgaria Parva Liga
Competition: Sat 07.August
Match begins: 15:45 (UTC)
Venue: Sporten kompleks Botev 1912 (3500 seats)

Botev Plovdiv battle against Slavia Sofia for glory and sporting success.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

2 - 0 - 2 with 3-3. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Slavia Sofia when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Slavia Sofia play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.

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Botev Plovdiv form and stats

Botev Plovdiv have only played one Parva Liga game here so far, a win. Last season their home statistics were 4 wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats from 13 matches.

The fans are hoping that Plovdiv will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Parva Liga game against Cherno More (placed 4th).

Ahead of that match, Plovdiv won a home game hosting OFK Pirin (2-1).

This is expected to be a close game, with Botev Plovdiv perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Plovdiv as a small favourite), we find six games. Botev Plovdiv has won one of these, drawn two and lost three.

Botev Plovdiv has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

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Slavia Sofia form and stats

A perfect away game record so far for the visitors in the Parva Liga, but they have only played once. Last season their away game stats were 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats from 3 matches.

There were no winners in Slavia Sofia's previous match, a Parva Liga home game that ended 0-0 vs Tsarsko selo (placed 9th).

Preceding that game was the away victory against Levski Sofia with the score of 2-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Slavia in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Slavia Sofia, three draws and zero defeats.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Slavia Sofia has managed 2 goals and let in 1 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Plovdiv victories, two draws and five Slavia Sofia wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Botev PlovdivP. Konate
P. Konate
1 goals
PlovdivJ. Costa Martins
J. Costa Martins
1 goals
Slavia SofiaE. Viyachki
E. Viyachki
1 goals

Botev Plovdiv missing players

Slavia Sofia missing players

Botev Plovdiv Slavia Sofia
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 0 1 2
1 1 0 Won W 0 1 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
2 2 0 Scored S 0 2 2
3 1 0 Conceded C 0 1 1
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 50%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 50%
50% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 50%
50% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 50%
 
4.5 7 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 7 5.5
4 2 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5 8
2 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 5 3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.5 14 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 9 8
3.5 6 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5 3.5
29% 33% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 40% 29%
Botev Plovdiv Last season Slavia Sofia
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
32 16   Played P   16 32
7 5   Won W   4 9
11 6   Drew D   3 7
14 5   Lost L   9 16
34 20   Scored S   16 28
52 18   Conceded C   25 44
84% 88%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 94%
75% 75%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   81% 75%
53% 31%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   44% 31%
31% 19%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   12% 12%
19% 19%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   12% 9%
47% 38%   BTTS BTTS   50% 41%
25% 31%   Clean Sheets C S   19% 25%
44% 44%   Failed to Score F T   31% 41%
 
4.2 4.6   Corners for (avg) C F   5.1 5.5
5 4   Corners against (avg) C A   4.9 4.8
2.7 2.3   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.6 2.4
4 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
9.2 10.8   Shots (avg) S (   7.6 8.5
3.4 3.9   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.7 3
31% 32%   Goal Efficiency G E   37% 29%

  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 2 2 0 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 5 6
2 Beroe 2 2 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 2 6
3 Botev Vratsa 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
4 Cherno More 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 4
5 Slavia Sofia 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 4
6 CSKA Sofia 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3
7 Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3
8 Botev Plovdiv 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 -1 3
9 Tsarsko selo 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
10 Arda 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
11 OFK Pirin 2 0 0 2 3 5 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 -2 0
12 Levski Sofia 2 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 -3 0
13 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 2 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 -3 0
14 CSKA 1948 Sofia 2 0 0 2 2 7 1 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 0 3 -5 0
Last season 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 26 20 4 2 59 18 13 12 1 0 28 4 13 8 3 2 31 14 41 64
2 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 26 15 7 4 41 19 13 8 5 0 25 10 13 7 2 4 16 9 22 52
3 CSKA Sofia 26 14 8 4 39 20 13 9 4 0 21 6 13 5 4 4 18 14 19 50
4 Arda 26 12 9 5 36 29 13 8 4 1 23 14 13 4 5 4 13 15 7 45
5 CSKA 1948 Sofia 26 10 8 8 34 30 13 8 3 2 24 10 13 2 5 6 10 20 4 38
6 Beroe 26 10 7 9 38 28 13 5 3 5 20 13 13 5 4 4 18 15 10 37
7 Cherno More 26 10 7 9 27 25 13 7 3 3 17 12 13 3 4 6 10 13 2 37
8 Tsarsko selo 26 9 7 10 29 27 13 5 5 3 18 13 13 4 2 7 11 14 2 34
9 Levski Sofia 26 7 7 12 25 27 13 5 2 6 13 15 13 2 5 6 12 12 -2 28
10 Botev Plovdiv 26 5 9 12 25 46 13 4 5 4 14 16 13 1 4 8 11 30 -21 24
11 Slavia Sofia 26 6 5 15 19 40 13 4 3 6 9 16 13 2 2 9 10 24 -21 23
12 Botev Vratsa 26 6 4 16 26 39 13 3 2 8 15 18 13 3 2 8 11 21 -13 22
13 Etar 26 4 10 12 20 45 13 2 7 4 10 16 13 2 3 8 10 29 -25 22
14 Montana 26 4 8 14 21 46 13 4 3 6 17 22 13 0 5 8 4 24 -25 20

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.