Open game expected at Tsarsko selo Complex: Tsarsko selo vs Arda preview

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Competition: Bulgaria Parva Liga
Competition: Sun 25.April
Match begins: 16:45 (UTC)
Venue: Tsarsko selo Complex (2000 seats)

Tsarsko selo will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 14 points behind Arda.

Insights:
  • Tsarsko selo have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Arda have the most points from losing position (10) in Parva Liga

The hosts Tsarsko selo saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Parva Liga. That game was an away game at Beroe, so at least Tsarsko are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

For Arda most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

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Tsarsko selo form and stats

Tsarsko selo have collected 17 points from their Parva Liga home games so far after 4-5-3.

It's back home for Tsarsko, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Beroe away with the result 1-0. Anderson Cordeiro Costa found the net in that victory. Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against CSKA Sofia.

Some amazing scenes last match, when Anderson Cordeiro Costa scored the winning goal one minutes into stoppage time.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Tsarsko selo have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found six matches with the results: Won zero, drawn five and lost one.

Tsarsko has scored 14 league goals at home this season, in 12 matches. 13 goals have been conceded.

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Arda form and stats

4 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Arda playing as the away team in the Parva Liga this season.

Impressive finishing from Milen Zhelev, Ivan Tilev and Tonislav Yordanov secured the home win 3-2 against Etar in their previous game. Before that, Arda secured a home win against Beroe with the score 1-0.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Arda playing away and similar expectations, we found seven relevant matches. Results were two Arda wins, five draws and zero defeats.

The visiting Arda have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 12 games. Arda are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 11 times in 12 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Arda - Tsarsko 2-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): Tsarsko three wins, one draw and Arda one victory. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

ArdaI. Kokonov
I. Kokonov
8 goals
ArdaS. Delev
S. Delev
6 goals
TsarskoM. Kavdanski
M. Kavdanski
4 goals

Tsarsko selo missing players

Arda missing players

Tsarsko selo Arda
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
25 12 3 Played P 4 12 25
8 4 1 Won W 3 4 12
7 5 1 Drew D 0 5 9
10 3 1 Lost L 1 3 4
25 14 3 Scored S 5 13 36
27 13 5 Conceded C 3 11 25
88% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 88%
60% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 58% 72%
36% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 25% 36%
12% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 24%
4% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 20%
32% 42% 67% BTTS BTTS 25% 33% 48%
36% 42% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 50% 40%
44% 33% 33% Failed to Score F T 25% 42% 24%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.5 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.8 2.7
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
9 11 6.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.8 7.7 10.6
3.2 3.4 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 3.2 4
31% 34% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 34% 36%
Key stats in Parva Liga this season:
  • Arda have the most points from losing position (10) in Parva Liga
  • Tsarsko selo 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 24 18 4 2 53 18 12 11 1 0 24 4 12 7 3 2 29 14 35 58
2 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 25 15 7 3 41 18 13 8 5 0 25 10 12 7 2 3 16 8 23 52
3 CSKA Sofia 25 13 8 4 37 20 13 9 4 0 21 6 12 4 4 4 16 14 17 47
4 Arda 25 12 9 4 36 25 13 8 4 1 23 14 12 4 5 3 13 11 11 45
5 Beroe 25 10 6 9 37 27 13 5 3 5 20 13 12 5 3 4 17 14 10 36
6 CSKA 1948 Sofia 24 9 8 7 33 26 12 7 3 2 23 10 12 2 5 5 10 16 7 35
7 Cherno More 25 9 7 9 26 25 13 7 3 3 17 12 12 2 4 6 9 13 1 34
8 Tsarsko selo 25 8 7 10 25 27 12 4 5 3 14 13 13 4 2 7 11 14 -2 31
9 Levski Sofia 25 7 7 11 25 25 12 5 2 5 13 13 13 2 5 6 12 12 0 28
10 Botev Plovdiv 25 5 9 11 25 44 12 4 5 3 14 14 13 1 4 8 11 30 -19 24
11 Botev Vratsa 25 6 4 15 26 38 12 3 2 7 15 17 13 3 2 8 11 21 -12 22
12 Slavia Sofia 25 6 4 15 18 39 13 4 3 6 9 16 12 2 1 9 9 23 -21 22
13 Etar 25 4 9 12 19 44 12 2 6 4 9 15 13 2 3 8 10 29 -25 21
14 Montana 25 4 7 14 20 45 12 4 2 6 16 21 13 0 5 8 4 24 -25 19

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.