FK Minyor Pernik vs Maritsa Plovdiv betting preview

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Competition: Bulgaria Second League
Competition: Fri 26.May
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Minyor (8000 seats)

A cursory look at the Second League table indicate an upper hand to Maritsa Plovdiv when they visit FK Minyor Pernik. Nevertheless; let's wait for the game before we hand out the points!

Insights:
  • FK Minyor Pernik have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Maritsa Plovdiv have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

This arena has grass, which is not Maritsa Plovdiv's everyday surface at their own pitch. When appearing on grass Maritsa Plovdiv have performed like this: Played 19 matches producing 2 wins, 5 draws and 12 defeats with the goal numbers 12-32 (scored/conceded).

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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FK Minyor Pernik form and stats

FK Minyor Pernik have collected 24 points from their Second League home games so far after 6-6-3. When FK Minyor Pernik hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Etar, Ludogorets II, Sportist Svoge, CSKA 1948 Sofia II and Levski Krumovgrad), they have won 2 of 5 matches! Two draws in a row at home now for Minyor.

No payout for FK Minyor Pernik in their previous match, an away game at Dunav 2010 that ended in defeat 2-4. A goal frenzy last time out for FK Minyor Pernik, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Dunav 2010. Fun stuff to watch!

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Lovech that ended 1-1.

Minyor 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 6 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 5, drew 1 and lost 0.

Low on goals? Looking at this team's last 18 league games, 14 have seen less than three goals (under 2.5).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for FK Minyor Pernik as they are travelling to their away game against Sozopol in the Second League. That match is four days after this one.

The Minyor fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 22 in 15 matches. FK Minyor Pernik have only conceded 12 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. When FK Minyor Pernik hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Vitosha Bistritsa, Sozopol, Botev Plovdiv II, Dobrudzha 1919 and Strumska slava), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 4 of 5 times.

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Maritsa Plovdiv form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Maritsa Plovdiv so far with only 12 points returning home. The records show 3-3-9 (win-draw-lose).

Maritsa won their last game, 1-0 versus Belasitsa played at home. Apostolov came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Belasitsa last time out, making the manager Dimitrov feel like a tactical genius.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Sportist Svoge wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.

After this away game Maritsa Plovdiv return home for a Second League game against CSKA 1948 Sofia II. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The attacking power of Maritsa Plovdiv when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 15 league matches away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Maritsa have conceded 28 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This isn't the first time these two teams meet this season, as the history books show this recent match: Maritsa Plovdiv - FK Minyor Pernik 1-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Minyor two wins, zero draws and Maritsa Plovdiv one victory. As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Maritsa PlovdivS. Malamov
S. Malamov
7 goals
Maritsa PlovdivV. Domovchiyski
V. Domovchiyski
7 goals
Maritsa PlovdivR. Apostolov
R. Apostolov
6 goals

FK Minyor Pernik missing players

Maritsa Plovdiv missing players

FK Minyor Pernik Maritsa Plovdiv
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
31 15 5 Played P 4 15 31
7 6 2 Won W 1 3 14
11 6 1 Drew D 1 3 5
13 3 2 Lost L 2 9 12
30 22 10 Scored S 4 10 35
34 12 7 Conceded C 6 27 37
84% 80% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 87% 90%
65% 73% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 73% 65%
32% 40% 80% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 60% 55%
10% 13% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 27% 19%
10% 13% 40% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 3%
35% 47% 60% BTTS BTTS 75% 47% 42%
32% 47% 40% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 39%
48% 27% 20% Failed to Score F T 25% 47% 29%
 
4.4 5.2 5 Corners for (avg) C F 5.8 5.2 5
4.2 2.9 4.2 Corners against (avg) C A 4.8 5.1 4.2
3.1 3.3 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 2.2 2.1
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
7.3 9.1 9.8 Shots (avg) S ( 11 10.2 9.9
2.6 3.3 3.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.8 3.7 3.7
36% 44% 60% Goal Efficiency G E 21% 21% 32%
 
8 6.9 8.2 Shots against (avg) S A 9.8 10.5 8.5
3.2 3.3 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 4.9 3.7
Key stats in Second League this season:
  • FK Minyor Pernik have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • FK Minyor Pernik have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Maritsa Plovdiv have scored away.
  • Maritsa Plovdiv have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Maritsa Plovdiv have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  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 1948 Sofia II 31 19 8 4 52 17 15 10 4 1 20 5 16 9 4 3 32 12 35 65
2 Etar 31 16 9 6 40 20 15 10 1 4 23 11 16 6 8 2 17 9 20 57
3 Ludogorets II 31 16 5 10 39 33 16 11 5 0 27 9 15 5 0 10 12 24 6 53
4 Levski Krumovgrad 31 14 9 8 36 30 16 9 5 2 21 12 15 5 4 6 15 18 6 51
5 Sportist Svoge 32 13 9 10 39 39 16 8 4 4 24 18 16 5 5 6 15 21 0 48
6 Maritsa Plovdiv 31 14 5 12 35 38 16 11 2 3 25 10 15 3 3 9 10 28 -3 47
7 Dunav 2010 31 12 10 9 45 35 16 7 5 4 26 16 15 5 5 5 19 19 10 46
8 Montana 31 12 7 12 36 36 15 7 3 5 22 16 16 5 4 7 14 20 0 43
9 Spartak Pleven 31 10 11 10 44 38 16 8 5 3 25 14 15 2 6 7 19 24 6 41
10 Belasitsa 31 12 5 14 30 32 15 8 2 5 19 13 16 4 3 9 11 19 -2 41
11 Yantra 1919 32 10 11 11 27 32 16 6 4 6 16 17 16 4 7 5 11 15 -5 41
12 Lovech 31 9 11 11 28 27 16 6 6 4 18 12 15 3 5 7 10 15 1 38
13 Dobrudzha 1919 31 9 9 13 37 38 16 7 5 4 24 16 15 2 4 9 13 22 -1 36
14 Strumska slava 31 7 12 12 30 41 15 5 3 7 11 17 16 2 9 5 19 24 -11 33
15 FK Minyor Pernik 31 7 11 13 30 34 15 6 6 3 22 12 16 1 5 10 8 22 -4 32
16 Sozopol 31 7 11 13 28 47 16 5 7 4 19 21 15 2 4 9 9 26 -19 32
17 Vitosha Bistritsa 31 7 9 15 31 48 15 5 7 3 19 17 16 2 2 12 12 31 -17 30
18 Botev Plovdiv II 31 7 6 18 23 45 15 5 5 5 17 16 16 2 1 13 6 29 -22 27

Read more about Second League

The Second Professional First League (or Vtora Liga, earlier B Group or B Professional Football Group) is the second-highest level of football in Bulgaria. It has 16 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 30 fixtures to set the final league table.