Zorya have traveled here for an interesting Europa Conference League fight against CSKA Sofia. Prepare for the match with this cup preview!
The hosts CSKA Sofia saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Parva Liga. This match was also played here at Stadion Slavija. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Zorya have had more rest.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Zorya, who are travelling more than 1400 kilometers to play this game.
CSKA Sofia form and stats
The overall Parva Liga results playing at home this season for CSKA Sofia are 3-1-0 (wins-draws-losses). On the other hand, in the Europa Conference League, CSKA Sofia has performed like this (both home and away): 2 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses. The CSKA Sofia fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Stadion Slavija and will expect new points from this game. Sofia has played 32 games in a row here without a defeat.
CSKA Sofia's previous game was a Parva Liga match also played at home, ending 3-2 versus Botev Plovdiv. The home side are looking to build on that result.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Tsarsko selo and winning 2-1.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Sofia have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found four games) they have won two times, drawn two and lost zero.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Sofia as they are travelling to their away game against Beroe in the Parva Liga. That match is three days after this one.
A decent goal production from Sofia in their home games so far, with 7 goals from 4 league matches. Sofia's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 4 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Zorya form and stats
3-1-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Zorya in their Premier League matches away.
Zorya lost away at Shakhtar Donetsk (1-6) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Shakhtar Donetsk was particularly ugly (1-6). The humiliation is still top of mind.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Desna.Zorya are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, zero draws and zero defeats. From a total of one match.
A quick return to home after this game, as Zorya are hosting Kolos Kovalivka in the Premier League only three days away.
Zorya are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (15 goals from 5 away games). The Zorya manager V. Skripnik has some worries about the defense as 11 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Sofia-Zorya H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: CSKA Sofia zero wins, Zorya one win, one draw. zero of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  J. Caicedo Medina 7 goals |  V. Kochergin 5 goals | G. Yomov 3 goals |
CSKA Sofia missing players
Zorya missing players
| CSKA Sofia | Zorya | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 8 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 34 | 19 | Scored | S | 43 | 61 | ||
| 30 | 7 | Conceded | C | 21 | 34 | ||
| 88% | 82% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 64% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 76% | ||
| 44% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 64% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 20% | ||
| 40% | 36% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 55% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 32% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 16% | ||
| 6 | 7.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.3 | ||
| 5.1 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5 | ||
| 2.3 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.4 | 3.1 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11.5 | 13.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.5 | 12.8 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.7 | ||
| 29% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 33% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Roma | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 6 |
| 2 | Bodø / Glimt | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | CSKA Sofia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 1 |
| 4 | Zorya | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -5 | 0 |
| 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 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 21 | 24 |
| 2 | CSKA Sofia | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 22 |
| 3 | Botev Plovdiv | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 21 |
| 4 | Slavia Sofia | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 19 |
| 5 | Cherno More | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 17 |
| 6 | Beroe | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -1 | 16 |
| 7 | Lokomotiv Sofia 1929 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | -4 | 13 |
| 8 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 11 |
| 9 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -6 | 11 |
| 10 | Levski Sofia | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 11 |
| 11 | Arda | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 12 | Botev Vratsa | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -8 | 10 |
| 13 | OFK Pirin | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -5 | 8 |
| 14 | Tsarsko selo | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -11 | 6 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dynamo Kyiv | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 26 | 29 |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 23 | 26 |
| 3 | Vorskla | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 24 |
| 4 | Dnipro-1 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 22 |
| 5 | Zorya | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 20 |
| 6 | Oleksandria | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 18 |
| 7 | Desna | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 17 |
| 8 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 16 |
| 9 | Veres | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 15 |
| 10 | Rukh Vynnyky | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 11 |
| 11 | Kolos Kovalivka | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -9 | 11 |
| 12 | Inhulets | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -9 | 8 |
| 13 | Minai | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | -6 | 7 |
| 14 | Lviv | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -12 | 6 |
| 15 | Chornomorets | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 15 | -14 | 6 |
| 16 | Mariupol | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -14 | 4 |