Levski Sofia fights Arda in Parva Liga battle

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Competition: Bulgaria Parva Liga
Competition: Sat 05.December
Match begins: 14:30 (UTC)
Venue: Vivacom Arena - Georgi Asparuhov (25000 seats)

Levski Sofia will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 10 points behind Arda.

Insights:
  • Levski Sofia has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Parva Liga
  • Arda has the most clean sheets (7) in Parva Liga

The hosts Levski saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Parva Liga. This match was also played here at Vivacom Arena - Georgi Asparuhov. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Arda have had more rest.

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Levski Sofia form and stats

3-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Parva Liga numbers at home for Levski Sofia so far this season.

A nice win for Levski last time playing, versus Lokomotiv Plovdiv. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Nigel Robertha scoring for the victors. A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Ludogorets.

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

Levski Sofia are traveling soon after this match as the Parva Liga match at Beroe awaits in four days.

Levski are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 7 games. Levski have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Arda form and stats

2 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Arda, who have the most clean sheets (7) in Parva Liga, playing as the away team in the Parva Liga this season.

The Arda goalkeeper Ivan Karadzhov is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 366 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Arda go into this game after a win, the home game against Montana that ended 3-0. That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Tsarsko selo.

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

The visitors have scored 6 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's not easy to score on Arda as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Arda - Levski Sofia 1-1. Numbers for the last three meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Levski, one draw and zero wins for Arda. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: one game.

Top Goalscorers

ArdaI. Kokonov
I. Kokonov
6 goals
Levski SofiaB. Tsonev
B. Tsonev
4 goals
ArdaS. Delev
S. Delev
4 goals

Levski Sofia missing players

Arda missing players

Levski Sofia Arda
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
12 7 1 Played P 4 7 13
4 3 1 Won W 2 2 6
2 1 0 Drew D 1 4 6
6 3 0 Lost L 1 1 1
13 7 1 Scored S 3 6 18
11 6 0 Conceded C 2 5 10
92% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 57% 77%
58% 57% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 43% 69%
42% 43% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 14% 31%
8% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 15%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 15%
33% 29% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 14% 38%
33% 43% 100% Clean Sheets C S 75% 71% 54%
42% 43% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 57% 31%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.4 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.1 3
2 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
7.2 7.1 4 Shots (avg) S ( 7.2 6.3 10.7
3.2 3.3 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 2.4 4.2
33% 30% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 35% 33%
Key stats in Parva Liga this season:
  • Arda has the most clean sheets (5) away in Parva Liga
  • Arda has the most clean sheets (7) in Parva Liga
  • Levski Sofia has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Parva Liga
  • Levski Sofia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 12 9 2 1 27 10 6 5 1 0 12 3 6 4 1 1 15 7 17 29
2 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 14 8 3 3 27 14 7 4 3 0 15 6 7 4 0 3 12 8 13 27
3 Arda 13 6 6 1 18 10 6 4 2 0 12 5 7 2 4 1 6 5 8 24
4 CSKA Sofia 13 6 6 1 20 14 6 4 2 0 9 4 7 2 4 1 11 10 6 24
5 Cherno More 14 6 3 5 21 19 7 4 1 2 13 10 7 2 2 3 8 9 2 21
6 CSKA 1948 Sofia 14 5 5 4 22 16 7 4 1 2 19 9 7 1 4 2 3 7 6 20
7 Beroe 11 5 3 3 22 12 5 2 1 2 11 4 6 3 2 1 11 8 10 18
8 Botev Vratsa 13 4 3 6 16 19 6 3 2 1 11 4 7 1 1 5 5 15 -3 15
9 Levski Sofia 12 4 2 6 13 11 7 3 1 3 7 6 5 1 1 3 6 5 2 14
10 Botev Plovdiv 13 3 5 5 14 24 7 3 4 0 10 5 6 0 1 5 4 19 -10 14
11 Tsarsko selo 13 3 4 6 7 11 6 2 2 2 5 5 7 1 2 4 2 6 -4 13
12 Montana 13 3 3 7 13 26 7 3 1 3 11 14 6 0 2 4 2 12 -13 12
13 Slavia Sofia 13 2 3 8 8 21 7 2 3 2 3 5 6 0 0 6 5 16 -13 9
14 Etar 14 1 4 9 10 31 7 1 2 4 6 14 7 0 2 5 4 17 -21 7

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.