It's time to decide the outcome of the Champions League Play-offs meeting between Ludogorets and Malmö FF. Get ready for the match with this full betting preview!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Ludogorets and Malmö FF.
It's quite the trip for Malmö FF when visiting Ludogorets as the cities are 2200 kilometers apart.
Ludogorets form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Champions League for Ludogorets, as the manager V. Dambrauskas led his troops to eliminate Mura, Olympiakos Piraeus and Shakhtyor, and reach the Play-offs. Ludogorets participated in Champions League the last season, where they reached the 2nd qualifying round.As mentioned below, Ludogorets are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 Parva Liga games. 3W-3D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for Ludogorets. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for Ludogorets, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.
Ludogorets are confident in defense, having played 203 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
The Ludogorets supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 in Parva Liga and win 5-0. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Ludogorets played a great game against Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Malmö FF (0-2).This is expected to be a close game, with Ludogorets perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Ludogorets as a small favourite), we find four games. Ludogorets has won zero of these, drawn zero and lost four.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Ludogorets at home in the league. 8 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Malmö FF form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Riga, HJK and Rangers in order to reach play-offs of Champions League. Last season their Europa League adventure ended in the play-offs.4 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Malmö FF playing as the away team in the Allsvenskan this season. When we have look at the Champions League statistics, we find 5W-2D-0L. This is both home and away.
The supporters enjoyed Malmö's previous game versus Degerfors, a Allsvenskan 3-0 win played at home. Martin Olsson was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.63. The defender Olsson hit three key passes and won 4 of 7 duels.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Ludogorets in the Champions League.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found one similar match played by Malmö FF in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Malmö FF, one draw and zero defeats.
Malmö has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 15 goals from 8 games. 9 goals have been conceded by Malmö FF in these games.
Head 2 Head
Ludogorets and Malmö FF have duelled already this season: Malmö FF - Ludogorets 2-0.Top Goalscorers
  A. Čolak 8 goals |  V. Birmančević 7 goals |  S. Krukow Rieks 4 goals |
Ludogorets missing players
Malmö FF missing players
| Ludogorets | Malmö FF | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 11 | Won | W | 5 | 16 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | ||
| 48 | 34 | Scored | S | 20 | 51 | ||
| 23 | 10 | Conceded | C | 13 | 27 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 92% | ||
| 60% | 79% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 43% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 20% | ||
| 52% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 73% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 9% | 4% | ||
| 5.5 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 5.5 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.9 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.9 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11.6 | 13.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14 | 15.5 | ||
| 5.2 | 6.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.1 | 5.7 | ||
| 37% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 37% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cherno More | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 2 | Botev Plovdiv | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | Ludogorets | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 |
| 4 | Botev Vratsa | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | Slavia Sofia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | Beroe | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 6 |
| 7 | Tsarsko selo | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 5 |
| 8 | Arda | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -5 | 4 |
| 10 | CSKA Sofia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | OFK Pirin | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Levski Sofia | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 3 |
| 13 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 1 |
| 14 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -9 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Malmö FF | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 36 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 17 | 33 |
| 2 | Djurgården | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 33 |
| 3 | AIK | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 30 |
| 4 | Elfsborg | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 29 |
| 5 | Hammarby | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 23 |
| 6 | Norrköping | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 23 |
| 7 | Kalmar | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | -1 | 21 |
| 8 | Häcken | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 19 |
| 9 | IFK Göteborg | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 19 |
| 10 | Degerfors | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 27 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 19 | -10 | 18 |
| 11 | Halmstad | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 17 |
| 12 | Varberg | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -5 | 17 |
| 13 | Sirius | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 19 | -11 | 16 |
| 14 | Örebro | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 18 | -17 | 12 |
| 15 | Mjallby | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -8 | 11 |
| 16 | Östersunds FK | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 15 | -10 | 9 |
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