Basel and CSKA Sofia get a break from their league challenge to fight for a possible trophy in this Europa League Play-offs fixture.
Basel and CSKA Sofia should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1700 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Basel form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Europa League for Basel, as the manager C. Sforza led his troops to eliminate Anorthosis and Osijek, and reach the Play-offs. Last season, Basel's Europa League journey ended in the 8th finals.0 victories, 1 draw and 0 defeats. That’s what Basel have to build on here at St. Jakob-Park in the Super League. Basel are splitting points both home and away, currently holding an interesting streak of four drawn games in a row. Three draws from their last three home games means a steady supply of points here at St. Jakob-Park, but a victory now would be sweet for Basel.
A nice win for Basel last time playing, versus Anorthosis. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-2 with Samuele Campo and Silvan Widmer scoring for the victors. Before that, Basel drew at home versus Vaduz.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Basel at home in the league. 2 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
CSKA Sofia form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Sirens, B36 and BATE in order to reach Play-offs of Europa League. CSKA Sofia's mission in Europa League last season failed in the 3rd qualifying round.CSKA Sofia are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Parva Liga, having played 3 games and collected 5 points (1 win, 2 draws and 0 losses). The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa League stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses both home and away. In general it has been a productive period now for CSKA Sofia as they haven't lost any of their last 14 games.
CSKA Sofia are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the Europa League against B36. Preceding that match was the 2-2 draw at home vs Ludogorets.
Sofia has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 5 goals from 3 games. Sofia have conceded 4 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last two meetings: two - zero - zero (Basel wins - draws - CSKA Sofia wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  Y. Sankharé 2 goals |  A. Sowe 2 goals |   V. Stocker 1 goals |
Basel missing players
CSKA Sofia missing players
| Basel | CSKA Sofia | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 8 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 3 | 14 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | ||
| 52 | 32 | Scored | S | 9 | 42 | ||
| 35 | 20 | Conceded | C | 7 | 21 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 76% | ||
| 72% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 48% | ||
| 48% | 57% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 12% | 24% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | ||
| 60% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 43% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 44% | ||
| 12% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 12% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 2.2 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 312 | 189 | Total Shots | T S | 110 | 335 | ||
| 122 | 82 | Shots on Target | S O | 45 | 130 | ||
| 43% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 32% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lugano | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Young Boys | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Lausanne Sport | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | St. Gallen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Basel | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Vaduz | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Zurich | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 8 | Sion | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 9 | Luzern | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Servette | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 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 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| 2 | Beroe | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 14 |
| 3 | Arda | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 4 | CSKA Sofia | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 12 |
| 6 | Levski Sofia | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | Botev Vratsa | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -3 | 10 |
| 8 | Tsarsko selo | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 9 | CSKA 1948 Sofia | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 10 | Botev Plovdiv | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -1 | 8 |
| 11 | Montana | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -5 | 8 |
| 12 | Cherno More | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -4 | 5 |
| 13 | Slavia Sofia | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -9 | 1 |
| 14 | Etar | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | -17 | 0 |