Match statistics and preview for Second League: Yantra 1919 - Spartak Pleven at Stadion Hristo Botev

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Competition: Bulgaria Second League
Competition: Fri 24.February
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Hristo Botev (13128 seats)

The guesting Spartak Pleven side should be the strongest party at Yantra 1919, as the visitors own a 7 point edge from their 19 league games this season.

Insights:
  • Yantra 1919 have the fewest scored goals (13) in Second League
  • Spartak Pleven have scored more than double the goals of Yantra 1919.

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.

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Yantra 1919 form and stats

The story so far in the Second League for Yantra 1919 at their home stadium (Stadion Hristo Botev) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

It's back home for Yantra, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Strumska slava away with the result 1-0.

Preceding that match was the home game against CSKA 1948 Sofia II that was lost 1-3.

It should be considered that a glance at the 12 most recent league games reveals that 10 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Yantra 1919 here at Stadion Hristo Botev in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (7 from 9 games). From these home matches, Yantra 1919 have conceded only 8 goals. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. When Yantra hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Vitosha Bistritsa, Sozopol, Botev Plovdiv II, FK Minyor Pernik and Dobrudzha 1919), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

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Spartak Pleven form and stats

There's been little loot from Spartak Pleven's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 9 away games in the Second League. Spartak Pleven only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws. Spartak Pleven seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Spartak have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 228 minutes ago. Antonov was the goal scorer.

Spartak Pleven's last game was the home draw against Sozopol (0-0).

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Maritsa Plovdiv's place.

Spartak have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 9 league away games 11 goals have been scored. 13 goals have been conceded by Spartak Pleven in these games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The newest archived meeting between these teams is the Spartak Pleven - Yantra 1919 2-2 played not long ago this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Yantra zero wins, two draws and Spartak Pleven zero victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Spartak PlevenV. Shopov
V. Shopov
6 goals
Yantra 1919I. Kostadinov Vasilev
I. Kostadinov Vasilev
4 goals
Spartak PlevenI. Varbanov
I. Varbanov
3 goals

Yantra 1919 missing players

Spartak Pleven missing players

Yantra 1919 Spartak Pleven
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 9 3 Played P 2 9 19
5 3 0 Won W 1 2 8
7 3 0 Drew D 1 2 5
7 3 3 Lost L 0 5 6
13 7 2 Scored S 2 11 27
18 8 6 Conceded C 0 13 21
84% 78% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 89% 89%
42% 33% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 68%
21% 33% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 44% 47%
16% 22% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 32%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 11%
32% 33% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 44% 42%
42% 56% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 33% 42%
42% 33% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 26%
 
6.4 5.9 7.7 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 3.4 4.3
4.5 4 6 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.4 5.2
3.2 3.6 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 2.9 2.3
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.4 9.4 10.7 Shots (avg) S ( 4 8.3 9.9
3.4 3.2 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.3 5.1
22% 27% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 28% 29%
 
8.6 8.1 10.3 Shots against (avg) S A 9 9.2 9.6
2.9 2.9 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3.8 3.9
Key stats in Second League this season:
  • Spartak Pleven have scored more than double the goals of Yantra 1919.
  • Spartak Pleven have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Yantra 1919 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Yantra 1919 have the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Second League
  • Yantra 1919 have the fewest scored goals (13) in Second League

  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 19 12 5 2 36 10 10 7 2 1 16 5 9 5 3 1 20 5 26 41
2 Etar 19 9 7 3 22 10 9 6 1 2 13 5 10 3 6 1 9 5 12 34
3 Levski Krumovgrad 19 10 4 5 25 20 9 5 2 2 13 9 10 5 2 3 12 11 5 34
4 Sportist Svoge 19 9 5 5 29 26 10 5 2 3 17 15 9 4 3 2 12 11 3 32
5 Spartak Pleven 19 8 5 6 27 21 10 6 3 1 16 8 9 2 2 5 11 13 6 29
6 Belasitsa 19 8 5 6 19 17 10 6 2 2 11 6 9 2 3 4 8 11 2 29
7 Montana 19 8 4 7 26 22 9 6 0 3 18 11 10 2 4 4 8 11 4 28
8 Maritsa Plovdiv 19 8 4 7 19 22 9 6 2 1 12 4 10 2 2 6 7 18 -3 28
9 Ludogorets II 19 8 2 9 16 23 9 7 2 0 13 3 10 1 0 9 3 20 -7 26
10 Dunav 2010 19 6 6 7 28 25 10 4 4 2 17 9 9 2 2 5 11 16 3 24
11 Lovech 19 6 6 7 21 18 10 4 4 2 15 8 9 2 2 5 6 10 3 24
12 Strumska slava 19 5 8 6 18 25 10 3 3 4 6 12 9 2 5 2 12 13 -7 23
13 Yantra 1919 19 5 7 7 13 18 9 3 3 3 7 8 10 2 4 4 6 10 -5 22
14 Botev Plovdiv II 19 6 3 10 16 24 9 5 2 2 13 7 10 1 1 8 3 17 -8 21
15 FK Minyor Pernik 19 5 5 9 19 19 10 4 3 3 14 8 9 1 2 6 5 11 0 20
16 Dobrudzha 1919 19 5 5 9 25 27 9 4 2 3 16 11 10 1 3 6 9 16 -2 20
17 Vitosha Bistritsa 19 4 5 10 20 31 10 2 5 3 11 13 9 2 0 7 9 18 -11 17
18 Sozopol 19 3 6 10 15 36 9 2 4 3 9 15 10 1 2 7 6 21 -21 15

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.