Olympiakos Piraeus host the first leg in this deciding Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round game. Ludogorets will try their very best to bring a solid result back to Ludogorets Arena before the return leg in 9 days.
Ludogorets could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Parva Liga game only three sleeps ago.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Ludogorets, who are travelling more than 1100 kilometers to play this game.
Olympiakos Piraeus form and stats
Olympiakos have not come this way in the Champions League without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Neftçi. Last season, Olympiakos Piraeus's Champions League journey ended in the group stage.The Olympiakos Piraeus fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki and will expect new points from this game. Olympiakos has played 19 games in a row here without a defeat.
It's back home for Olympiakos, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Neftçi away with the result 1-0. Giorgos Masouras found the net in that victory.
Ahead of that match, Olympiakos won a home game hosting Neftçi (1-0).The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Olympiakos's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played five games, won three matches, drawn one and lost one.
Ludogorets form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Mura and Shakhtyor in order to reach 3rd qualifying round of Champions League. They also participated in Champions League last season. This ended in the 2nd qualifying round.The story so far for the visiting team on their Parva Liga travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Champions League stats, they have 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away.
Ludogorets had fun at their own home (Stadio Georgios Karaiskáki) last time out, beating CSKA 1948 Sofia 3-0. Elvis Manu, Dorin Rotariu and Bernard Tekpetey scored.
A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Mura.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Ludogorets playing away, we found one game. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and one home win.
3 goals so far away for Ludogorets, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 1. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  E. Manu 2 goals |  B. Tekpetey 2 goals |  K. Despodov 1 goals |
Olympiakos Piraeus missing players
Ludogorets missing players
| Olympiakos Piraeus | Ludogorets | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 10 | Won | W | 6 | 16 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 39 | 22 | Scored | S | 20 | 48 | ||
| 20 | 9 | Conceded | C | 13 | 24 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 80% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 64% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 44% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 60% | ||
| 44% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 40% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 4% | ||
| 4.2 | 3.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 5.6 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4 | ||
| 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.8 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 5 | ||
| 10.7 | 11.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.3 | 11 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 4.8 | ||
| 34% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 40% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ludogorets | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Botev Vratsa | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Slavia Sofia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | CSKA Sofia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Botev Plovdiv | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Beroe | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Tsarsko selo | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Arda | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Cherno More | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | OFK Pirin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 13 | Levski Sofia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -3 | 0 |
| 14 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 0 |