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CSKA Sofia (Bul) vs BATE (Blr) Prediction & Betting tips
ZSKA Sofia has already played twice in the semi-finals of the European Cup. The 31-time Bulgarian champion has spared quite a marginal existence in national and international football in the past decade. Finally, the license was withdrawn from the team, which then had to restart in the third division. But now the Reds are back and are eager to qualify for an international competition again.
In the run-up to the game between CSKA Sofia and BATE Borissov, the odds of the bookmakers definitely move towards the Bulgarian representative, as the odds comparison of the betting base shows.
However, in the forecast for CSKA Sofia against BATE Borissov, it must be taken into account that the guests from Belarus have played in the group stage of the Champions League five times in the last twelve years alone and have qualified for the Europa League preliminary round four more times. You shouldn’t copy the yellow-blue ones under any circumstances.
Although the Bulgarian club may have a higher quality squad on paper, we still trust the internationally very experienced Belarusian team to get the ticket for the third qualifying round.
CSKA Sofia:
With 31 national championships and 20 cup wins, CSKA Sofia is still one of the great figureheads of Bulgarian football. The Reds have already made it to the semi-finals of the European Champion Clubs’ Cup twice and have defeated many a European heavyweight in their long and glorious history.
In the recent past, however, it has become quiet about the team, which disappeared into oblivion due to enormous debts, which recently failed twice in a row in the third qualifying round for the Europa League, but can now start a new attempt as the reigning runner-up.
CSKA Sofia benefited from the home advantage in the first qualifying round, but it wobbled a lot against Underdog Sirens FC from Malta. The fourth of the Maltese league missed a penalty and only let the 1-0 lead be taken from the bread in stoppage time of the game.
The Reds got away with a black eye, who scored four out of six possible points at the national level, but most recently on Saturday did not get beyond the 1-1 draw on Saturday despite being outnumbered at underdog Cherno More Varna.
This gives the impression that the team trained by Stamen Belchev is not yet running really smoothly, which is basically understandable. Seven players finally left the club in the summer and have not yet been fully compensated.
BATE Borissov:
In the form in which it still exists today, the BATE Borissov association was only founded in 1996 and is therefore relatively young. However, it only took three years before the yellow-blue team won the Belarusian championship for the first time in their history. To date there have been 15 national championships and four cup wins.
Most recently, the club located at Bjaresina won the national cup with a 1-0 after extra time in May and was able to crown a disappointing pre-season in which Dynamo Brest had to leave the championship first.
The Belarusians benefit from the fact that the game always runs from March to December, which means that the yellow-blue players are currently fully in the rhythm of the game. Perhaps because of this, BATE has not had too much problems so far, qualifying five times for the group stage of the Champions League and four more times at least in the preliminary round of the Europa League.
In the league, because of the slightly worse goal difference, they are only second behind Soligorsk at the moment. If Kirill Alshevskiy’s men continue where they left off, the championship lead could be regained in a timely manner.
After all, the Belarusians won six of the last seven competitive games and scored a total of 24 goals in these seven games. Against this background, at CSKA Sofia against BATE Borissov, a tip on the progression of the yellow-blue definitely makes sense.
Only the big names are missing from the squad. With the 24-year-old Montenegrin Boris Kopitovic, an interesting man from the top Serbian league could be signed in the summer transfer window, but you are looking in vain for an absolute superstar in the ranks of the 15-time national champion.