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 Slavia Sofia in front of their home support.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Ludogorets form and stats
In their previous game, the manager P. Vrba led his Ludogorets to a defeat in the Parva Liga match away at Botev Vratsa. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Ludogorets Arena. Ahead of that match, Ludogorets won a home game hosting Levski Sofia (3-0).
Ludogorets 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 six matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won four, drew two and lost zero.
Last season, Ludogorets's league statistics were 18 wins, 8 draws and 0 losses, resulting in a 1st position in the Parva Liga. Over these 26 matches they scored 46 goals and conceded 12. Playing at home last season Ludogorets managed 10-3-0 (win-draw-lost) with 29 goals and 5 conceded.
Slavia Sofia form and stats
Slavia Sofia delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Cherno More (placed 9th) in their previous match; a Parva Liga game. A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Botev Plovdiv.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Slavia played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected two times.
Let's have a look at how Slavia Sofia performed last season in the Parva Liga: They landed a 5th position in the league table after playing out 13 victories, 6 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 36 and conceded 28 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 8 - drew 3 and lost 2 with 16/7 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
Ludogorets-Slavia Sofia H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Ludogorets five wins, Slavia Sofia one win, four draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  A. Hristov 1 goals |
Ludogorets missing players
Slavia Sofia missing players
| Ludogorets | Slavia Sofia | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 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% |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| Ludogorets | Last season | Slavia Sofia | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 31 | 16 | Played | P | 16 | 32 | ||
| 21 | 13 | Won | W | 10 | 17 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 59 | 40 | Scored | S | 19 | 44 | ||
| 18 | 7 | Conceded | C | 10 | 33 | ||
| 90% | 88% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 81% | 88% | ||
| 74% | 88% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 66% | ||
| 35% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 31% | 47% | ||
| 19% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 12% | 25% | ||
| 13% | 19% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 6% | 12% | ||
| 48% | 44% | BTTS | BTTS | 31% | 53% | ||
| 52% | 56% | Clean Sheets | C S | 56% | 34% | ||
| 10% | 12% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 25% | ||
| 6.9 | 7.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.3 | 3.7 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.9 | 4.9 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.4 | 2.9 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 5 | 7 | ||
| 371 | 221 | Total Shots | T S | 119 | 271 | ||
| 166 | 104 | Shots on Target | S O | 59 | 124 | ||
| 36% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 35% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Tsarsko selo | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Botev Vratsa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Beroe | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Botev Plovdiv | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Arda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Montana | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | CSKA Sofia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Cherno More | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Slavia Sofia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Ludogorets | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Levski Sofia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 13 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 14 | Etar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 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 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 72 |
| 2 | CSKA Sofia | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 59 |
| 3 | Slavia Sofia | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 55 |
| 4 | Levski Sofia | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 53 |
| 5 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | -8 | 53 |
| 6 | Beroe | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 49 |