Midtjylland have traveled here for an interesting Champions League fight against Ludogorets. Prepare for the match with this cup preview!
Ludogorets have less rest than Midtjylland in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Parva Liga game only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Cherno More.
It's quite the trip for Midtjylland when visiting Ludogorets as the cities are 2400 kilometers apart.
Ludogorets form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Champions League for Ludogorets, as the manager P. Vrba led his troops to eliminate Buducnost, and reach the 2nd Qualifying Round. Ludogorets was eliminated in the 1st qualifying round last season in the Champions League.The story so far in the Parva Liga for Ludogorets at their home stadium (Ludogorets Arena) is 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Ever since the Cherno More game Ludogorets has been unbeatable here at Ludogorets Arena producing seven straight wins.
A strong away win for Ludogorets against Cherno More the last match, as Claudiu Keșerü, Alex Santana, Higinio and Jorginho were on target. In the preceding match a 3-1 victory visiting Buducnost.
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 Ludogorets have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found one match with the results: Won zero, drawn zero and lost one.
The manager P. Vrba will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Etar in only three days.
Ludogorets has scored 3 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Midtjylland form and stats
They also participated in Champions League last season. This ended in the 2nd qualifying round, when Astana drew the shortest straw.Midtjylland's previous game was their home loss versus AaB (1-2). Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus AaB.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found three similar matches played by Midtjylland in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Midtjylland, two draws and one defeat.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  N. de Jesus Gusmão 1 goals |  C. Moți 1 goals |  A. Menezes Santana 1 goals |
Ludogorets missing players
Midtjylland missing players
| Ludogorets | Midtjylland | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 9 | Won | W | 8 | 15 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 52 | 38 | Scored | S | 21 | 52 | ||
| 24 | 9 | Conceded | C | 11 | 27 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 80% | ||
| 56% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 29% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 20% | ||
| 52% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 40% | ||
| 32% | 43% | Clean Sheets | C S | 58% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 16% | ||
| 6.5 | 6.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.8 | 7.2 | ||
| 3.9 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.3 | ||
| 2.2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.7 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 273 | 160 | Total Shots | T S | 161 | 326 | ||
| 114 | 73 | Shots on Target | S O | 50 | 101 | ||
| 40% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 44% | ||
| 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 Sofia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | Ludogorets | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Tsarsko selo | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | Beroe | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Cherno More | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Botev Plovdiv | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Botev Vratsa | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Arda | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Montana | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Levski Sofia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 1 |
| 13 | Slavia Sofia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 1 |
| 14 | Etar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -7 | 0 |