CSKA Sofia and Basel will play at least 180 minutes of football to decide who advances from this Europa Conference League Play-offs battle. Get ready for the first 90 minutes!
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Basel, who are travelling more than 1700 kilometers to play this game.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
CSKA Sofia form and stats
Sofia have not come this way in the Europa Conference League without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating St Patrick's and Makedonija. CSKA Sofia was eliminated in the group stage last season in the Europa Conference League.When playing at home in the Parva Liga, CSKA Sofia have managed 4 wins, 0 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games. This match is a Europa Conference League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in this competition.
The CSKA Sofia club members enjoyed the previous game, watching their team host Septemvri Sofia and win 1-0. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Ilić when Moreno scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 54th minute.
CSKA Sofia can score goals in their home matches. After 4 league matches they have found the net 10 times. Sofia have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.
Basel form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Brøndby and Crusaders in order to reach play-offs of Europa Conference League. Basel was sent out of Europa Conference League in the 8th finals last season, when Olympique Marseille turned out to be too strong.As the visiting team in Super League matches, Basel have produced an overall stat of 0-1-0 so far. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa Conference League stats, they have 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss both home and away.
Basel have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 225 minutes ago. Ndoye was the goal scorer.
This fixture can not go any worse than the last one, the home loss versus Lugano with 0-2 on the scoreboard. Hitting the posts three times in the Lugano game proved expensive as Basel lost 0-2. Midfield player Ndoye was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.04/10. Ndoye hit four key passes and had 18 successful passes (of 21 total).
The schedule is very tough for Basel now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Swiss Cup game at Allschwil is waiting in only three days.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Basel has managed 1 goal and let in 1 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
CSKA Sofia-Basel H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: CSKA Sofia one win, Basel two wins, zero draws. two of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  M. Garcez 5 goals | I. Turitsov 1 goals | A. Donchev 1 goals |
CSKA Sofia missing players
Basel missing players
| CSKA Sofia | Basel | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 9 | Won | W | 2 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 6 | 11 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 31 | 25 | Scored | S | 11 | 35 | ||
| 25 | 9 | Conceded | C | 9 | 26 | ||
| 80% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 70% | 84% | ||
| 60% | 47% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 80% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 30% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 10% | 8% | ||
| 20% | 20% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | ||
| 52% | 60% | Clean Sheets | C S | 40% | 32% | ||
| 48% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 28% | ||
| 5.5 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 5 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 5.5 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.3 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 10 | 11.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.6 | 12.5 | ||
| 3.3 | 4.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 5.2 | ||
| 32% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 27% | ||
| 7.6 | 6.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 10.8 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.8 | ||
| 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 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 2 | CSKA Sofia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 13 |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
| 4 | Cherno More | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 5 | Ludogorets | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 10 |
| 6 | Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | Slavia Sofia | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | Arda | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -1 | 9 |
| 9 | Botev Vratsa | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 7 |
| 10 | Levski Sofia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 11 | Hebar 1918 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -5 | 6 |
| 12 | Beroe | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -6 | 5 |
| 13 | Septemvri Sofia | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -6 | 4 |
| 14 | OFK Pirin | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -4 | 2 |
| 15 | Botev Plovdiv | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 1 |
| 16 | Spartak Varna | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | -13 | 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 | Young Boys | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 11 |
| 2 | St. Gallen | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 3 | Grasshopper | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | Sion | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 5 | Servette | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 8 |
| 6 | Lugano | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Luzern | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 5 |
| 8 | Basel | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 3 |
| 9 | Winterthur | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -6 | 2 |
| 10 | Zurich | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -9 | 2 |
