📏 Form Guide

Arda Kardzhali

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Arda Kardzhali will be looking for another win after the 1-2 First League success against Botev.

The only scorer from Arda Kardzhali was Cəlal Hüseynov (61', 70'). Meotti (68') scored for Botev.

An interesting feature of more recent Arda Kardzhali games is the number of nil scores.

From their prior sextet of matches before this one, in as many as 5 of them a bet on "Both Teams to Score" would've been a losing one.

Ahead of this meeting, Arda Kardzhali are without a win at home for the past 2 league matches.

Lokomotiv Plovdiv

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Cherno More Varna in First League competition, Lokomotiv Plovdiv and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

A series of effective showings from the Lokomotiv Plovdiv defensive unit has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their past 6 outings in total. Over that same period, their own attack force has managed to score 5. With no two games being the same, we will just have to wait and see whether the trend shall be sustained in this game.

Going into this one, Lokomotiv Plovdiv haven't won against Arda Kardzhali in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 18/02/2024 tells us that Arda Kardzhali have won 2 of these & Lokomotiv Plovdiv 3, with the tally of draws being 1.

A total of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for The Vallecans and 7 being from Smarfovete. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.33.

📰 Team News: Arda Kardzhali

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the sole fitness concern for the Arda Kardzhali manager Aleksandar Tunchev to be concerned about from an otherwise complete set of players. Georgi Nikolov (Cruciate ligament surgery) is out of contention.

🗞️ Team News: Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Lokomotiv Plovdiv manager Dušan Kosič has some current player fitness concerns. Martin Ruskov (Torn ligaments) and Enzo Espinoza (Meniscus tear) are not able to play.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that Lokomotiv Plovdiv will likely create enough chances to break down this Arda Kardzhali outfit, although it probably won’t quite be enough to avoid defeat.

We’re going for a very close game with a 2-1 advantage for Arda Kardzhali when all is said and done. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Victor Martins, 15:16 16/05/2026