Second League preview: Can Strumska slava edge out victory against Botev Plovdiv II?

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Competition: Bulgaria Second League
Competition: Fri 17.March
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Gradski stadion (5000 seats)

Both the home- and away side have had a low return so far, but a win in this key fixture would definitely provide a boost. Prepare for Strumska slava - Botev Plovdiv II!

Insights:
  • Strumska slava have the fewest points (12) at home in Second League
  • Botev Plovdiv II have the fewest points (4) away in Second League

Botev Plovdiv II could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Second League game only four sleeps ago.

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Strumska slava form and stats

The story so far in the Second League for Strumska slava, who have the fewest points (12) at home in Second League, at their home stadium (Gradski stadion) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. When Strumska slava hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Vitosha Bistritsa, Lovech, Sozopol, FK Minyor Pernik and Strumska slava), they have won 1 of 2 matches! Strumska slava are slowly digging their own grave here at Gradski stadion with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in eight attempts.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 182 minutes without scoring a league goal. Kirilov was the last player to find the net.

Strumska slava drew their last game, 0-0 away at Levski Krumovgrad (placed 4th).

Preceding that match was a defeat to Dobrudzha 1919 (0-2).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Strumska have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 9 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 2 and lost 2.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Strumska slava here at Gradski stadion in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (6 from 11 games). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Strumska slava's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 14 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Botev Plovdiv II form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Botev Plovdiv II so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-9 (win-draw-lose). With the Plovdiv losing streak of four defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, the home loss versus CSKA 1948 Sofia II with 1-3 on the scoreboard.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against FK Minyor Pernik wasn't a success with a 0-3 loss.

Botev Plovdiv II are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 4 matches.

Look out: 14 of the last 18 league fixtures featuring this team have seen only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in the betting world).

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Botev Plovdiv II's away games in the league this season with only {3 goals} from 11 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Botev Plovdiv II have conceded 20 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these teams meet on the pitch this campaign, as the records show this recent match: Botev Plovdiv II - Strumska 0-3. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's two Strumska slava victories, one draw and zero Botev Plovdiv II wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Strumska slavaB. Nikolov
B. Nikolov
3 goals
Strumska slavaT. Tsanev
T. Tsanev
3 goals

Strumska slava missing players

Botev Plovdiv II missing players

Strumska slava Botev Plovdiv II
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 2 Played P 3 11 22
5 3 1 Won W 0 1 6
10 3 0 Drew D 1 1 3
7 5 1 Lost L 2 9 13
19 6 2 Scored S 1 3 17
28 14 3 Conceded C 5 20 31
82% 82% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
68% 55% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 55% 64%
45% 36% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 36% 32%
18% 9% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 9% 14%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 9%
36% 9% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 18% 27%
36% 45% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 18%
45% 64% 50% Failed to Score F T 67% 82% 55%
 
4.5 6.6 5 Corners for (avg) C F 2 3.3 3.5
4.6 3.4 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.7 6.4
3.1 2.6 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.9 2.2
3 1 1 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
9.1 9.7 10 Shots (avg) S ( 6.7 6.3 8
3.9 3.2 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.4 3.1
23% 17% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 12% 25%
 
9.5 8.6 3.5 Shots against (avg) S A 9.7 12.9 12.5
4.3 4.3 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 6.1 5.5
Key stats in Second League this season:
  • Botev Plovdiv II have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Botev Plovdiv II have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Botev Plovdiv II have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Botev Plovdiv II have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Second League
  • Botev Plovdiv II have the fewest points (4) away in Second League
  • Botev Plovdiv II have the fewest scored goals (3) away in Second League
  • Botev Plovdiv II have the the worst goal difference (-17) away in Second League
  • Botev Plovdiv II haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Strumska slava have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Strumska slava have the fewest points (12) at home in Second League
  • Strumska slava have the fewest scored goals (6) at home in Second League
  • Strumska slava have the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in Second League
  • Strumska slava have won significantly more corners at 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 CSKA 1948 Sofia II 22 14 5 3 41 12 11 8 2 1 18 5 11 6 3 2 23 7 29 47
2 Etar 22 11 7 4 26 12 11 7 1 3 16 7 11 4 6 1 10 5 14 40
3 Sportist Svoge 22 11 6 5 32 27 11 6 2 3 18 15 11 5 4 2 14 12 5 39
4 Levski Krumovgrad 22 11 5 6 26 22 11 6 3 2 14 9 11 5 2 4 12 13 4 38
5 Montana 22 9 6 7 29 24 11 6 2 3 19 12 11 3 4 4 10 12 5 33
6 Ludogorets II 22 10 3 9 21 25 11 8 3 0 15 4 11 2 0 9 6 21 -4 33
7 Belasitsa 22 9 5 8 21 21 11 6 2 3 12 8 11 3 3 5 9 13 0 32
8 Dunav 2010 22 8 7 7 35 28 11 4 5 2 19 11 11 4 2 5 16 17 7 31
9 Spartak Pleven 22 8 6 8 30 27 11 6 3 2 17 11 11 2 3 6 13 16 3 30
10 Maritsa Plovdiv 22 8 5 9 21 26 11 6 2 3 13 7 11 2 3 6 8 19 -5 29
11 Yantra 1919 22 7 7 8 16 21 11 4 3 4 8 11 11 3 4 4 8 10 -5 28
12 Dobrudzha 1919 22 7 6 9 30 29 11 5 3 3 19 13 11 2 3 6 11 16 1 27
13 Strumska slava 22 5 10 7 19 28 11 3 3 5 6 14 11 2 7 2 13 14 -9 25
14 FK Minyor Pernik 22 6 6 10 23 21 11 5 3 3 17 8 11 1 3 7 6 13 2 24
15 Lovech 22 6 6 10 21 22 11 4 4 3 15 10 11 2 2 7 6 12 -1 24
16 Botev Plovdiv II 22 6 3 13 17 31 11 5 2 4 14 11 11 1 1 9 3 20 -14 21
17 Vitosha Bistritsa 22 5 5 12 22 34 11 3 5 3 13 13 11 2 0 9 9 21 -12 20
18 Sozopol 22 4 8 10 19 39 11 3 5 3 11 16 11 1 3 7 8 23 -20 20

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.