Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Arda (2nd, 51 pts) held a 34-point advantage over Etar (6th, 17 pts). On recent form Etar sat only 27th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 6th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Etar 4.4 scored and 13.2 conceded per game, Arda 6.5 and 5.83, with the league averaging 2.23.
Etar's winless run stood at 7.
The match was played at Nikola Shterev-Starika Complex in Plovdiv (capacity 18,700). Half-time and full-time told different stories: Etar led 1-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-1.