About Match
The table gap is wide: 17 points between Ludogorets (2nd, 23 pts) and Lokomotiv Plovdiv (11th, 6 pts). Per game in the league, Lokomotiv Plovdiv score 0.44 and conceding 1.33, Ludogorets 1.78 and 0.78, against a competition average of 1.35 goals per team per game. Lokomotiv Plovdiv would climb to 9 points with a win and up to 9th (other results held equal).
Ludogorets are unbeaten in 10, having scored in 10 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Lokomotiv Plovdiv 3/15, Ludogorets 11/15.
11 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Lokomotiv Plovdiv 2, draws 4, Ludogorets 5, at 2.18 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 64% of the meetings. The recent editions have closed up — 1.2 goals per game over the last five against 2.18 all-time.