With the nervous opening game out of the way it’s time for the second Parva Liga game of the season. Ludogorets look forward to welcoming CSKA 1948 Sofia in front of their home support.
There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Champions League match only three days ago. This match was also played here at Huvepharma Arena. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, CSKA 1948 Sofia have had more rest.
Ludogorets form and stats
Last season, Ludogorets's league statistics were 20 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses, resulting in a 1st position in the Parva Liga. Over these 26 matches they scored 59 goals and conceded 18. Playing at home last season Ludogorets managed 12-1-0 (win-draw-lost) with 28 goals and 4 conceded.
The Ludogorets supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Mura in Champions League and win 3-1.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Lokomotiv Plovdiv and winning 3-1.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Ludogorets home games with this odds we find nine games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in nine wins, zero draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, six matches were won by at least two goals.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Ludogorets as they are travelling to their away game against Olympiakos Piraeus in the Champions League. That match is three days after this one.
CSKA 1948 Sofia form and stats
Let's have a look at how CSKA 1948 Sofia performed last season in the Parva Liga: They landed a 5th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 8 draws and 8 defeats. In total they scored 34 and conceded 30 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 5 and lost 6 with 10/20 goals scored/conceded.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Parva Liga home defeat versus CSKA Sofia with 2-4 on the scoreboard. As you can tell from the result, the match against CSKA Sofia was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against Ludogorets.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Sofia played away with similar odds. This revealed three games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, two were draws and the home team won as expected one time.
Head 2 Head
As for the last three games between these two teams, there's two Ludogorets victories, zero draws and one CSKA 1948 Sofia wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  I. Chochev 2 goals |   E. Manu 1 goals |  K. Despodov 1 goals |
Ludogorets missing players
CSKA 1948 Sofia missing players
| Ludogorets | CSKA 1948 Sofia | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 43% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| Ludogorets | Last season | CSKA 1948 Sofia | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 31 | 16 | Played | P | 16 | 31 | ||
| 22 | 14 | Won | W | 2 | 12 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 8 | 11 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 69 | 36 | Scored | S | 13 | 41 | ||
| 29 | 8 | Conceded | C | 23 | 34 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 69% | 77% | ||
| 84% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 61% | ||
| 65% | 56% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 44% | 45% | ||
| 45% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 19% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 12% | 16% | ||
| 55% | 44% | BTTS | BTTS | 44% | 39% | ||
| 45% | 56% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 42% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 56% | 42% | ||
| 5.6 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 4 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.9 | 5.6 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.7 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 11.7 | 12.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.2 | 8.6 | ||
| 5.3 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 3.4 | ||
| 42% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 39% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | CSKA Sofia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Ludogorets | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Botev Plovdiv | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Slavia Sofia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Beroe | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Arda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Botev Vratsa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Cherno More | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Tsarsko selo | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Levski Sofia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | OFK Pirin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 14 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 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 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -1 | 70 |
| 2 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 61 |
| 3 | CSKA Sofia | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 59 |
| 4 | Arda | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 50 |
| 5 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 47 |
| 6 | Beroe | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 39 |