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Lok. Plovdiv vs Strasbourg Prediction & Betting tips
Why Plovdiv vs. Strasbourg, especially for the German-speaking countries is a highly interesting lot? Very easily. Because here the potential opponent of last year’s semi-finalist Eintracht Frankfurt is looking for the playoffs for the UEFA Europa League.
Assuming, of course, that the Hessians take on the hurdle called FC Vaduz and qualify for this game which will take place against the Bulgarian cup winner Lokomotive Plovdiv or the French League Cup winner Racing Strasbourg. No wonder, then, that not only the SBU but also their fans and sympathizers will look at it at least with one eye on what is happening in the Lokomotiv Stadium in Lauta Park in Bulgaria in this match.
But even so the encounter between Lokomotiv Plovdiv and Strasbourg – according to odds of bookmakers, the French are the clear favorite – a highly exciting affair. Finally, the Bulgarians just celebrated a coup in the second qualifying round when they were able to conquer a well-known opponent with Spartak Trnava from the competition. “Le Racing” should be warned accordingly, but is not too much in the juice. Already the qualifiers against Haifa were very shaky and went just as well for the Alsatians despite a 1: 2 defeat in Israel in the second leg. A result, which at Lokomotive Plovdiv vs.. Strasbourg certainly influenced the forecast. Finally, the Bulgarians have been four league appearances and remained unbeaten in their four home games of the 2019/20 season (three wins, one draw). Because of the very attractive odds is Lokomotiv Plovdiv vs.. Strasbourg the tip on the home win thus almost mandatory.
Locomotive Plovdiv:
A single championship stands for the known as “Plovdiver Juve” team, which plays similar to Juventus in white jerseys with black stripes. However, this already goes back to the 2003/04 season. However, the railroad workers who finished the 2018/19 season on a sobering eighth place in the Bulgarian Parva league are back on top.
This is due to the first Bulgarian cup victory in history, when in the final city rivals Botev Plovdiv were beaten 1-0. This was also the ticket of the “Smurfs” in the qualifying rounds of the Europa League, where the first big coup in the second round was already made. After a strong 2-0 home victory over Spartak Trnava handed a 1-3 defeat in Slovakia due to the away goals control at the end to progress.
The chest is correspondingly wide in the Lokomotiv Plovdiv camp, where owner Hristo Krusharski is already making great calls, but who were covered at the weekend in the Bulgarian Parva Liga. Against Ludogorez Razgrad – in recent years, the big star of the league – the Plovdiver Juve drew 1-1 draw and caused the first point loss of the great favorite in the current season. After the miserable start to the season (1: 3 defeat at Cherno More on July 14, 2019), the railroaders remained so unbeaten in the fifth competitive match in series and may dream of so many great football night. In the event of a renewed advance against Strasbourg Eintracht Frankfurt would again be waiting for a real deathless.
Nevertheless, all players are ready for action and in six highly successful matches played in the 2019/20 season, the reigning Bulgarian cup winner is in good shape. The best conditions, then, to be able to hint at Lokomotive Plovdiv against Strasbourg the tip on the supposed outsider to highly attractive quotes.
Strasbourg:
Really successful was also the season 2018/19 for Racing Strasbourg in the end not. In Ligue 1, a sobering eleventh place in the table was booked. Overall, this was the best performance since the resurgence in 2017 and the best season performance in 14 years, but compared to the season, there was more for “Les Bleues”.
The fact that the club still has the opportunity to participate in the second most important European competition for club teams, or go through the qualifying rounds there, is due to the overall victory in the so-called Coupe de la Ligue, which was already played in March 2019. The League Cup is a competition in France, in which all professional teams send mainly their B-teams, and yet this can lead to the path to Europe. This is the chance that “Le Racing” has used with the final victory over Guingamp on penalties.
At least the first part of the chance, because still the Alsatians before the difficult game in Plovdiv, before then only the participation in the playoffs would be guaranteed. There would be another caliber to be expected with Eintracht Frankfurt. It is therefore difficult to assess to what extent Strasbourg will be willing to invest in these two to four remaining matches in the Europa League. Finally, the national championship is at the top, where “Le Racing” once again wants nothing to do with the relegation battle.
New entrants such as Alexander Djiku and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde could theoretically help the club immediately, but must first be integrated into the team, which is just about match practice. Against Maccabi Haifa, “Les Bleues” did not fare well in the second qualifying round. Although may also be against locomotive Plovdiv Strasbourg, according to odds of bookmakers in the role of favorites. Nevertheless, the match in Bulgaria is, as Captain Stefan Mitrovic rightly emphasizes, a close affair.
In addition, RC Strasbourg has to worry about its successful coach Thierry Laurey. After burning his roof in the night from Monday to Tuesday, the 55-year-old bowed his shoulder during the evacuation of the building. Ironically, in the groundbreaking week in which on Sunday against Metz also the Ligue 1 season 2019/20 for “Le Racing” is opened. Passing important practice sessions to the assistant trainers at this stage of the season is unlikely to have boosted the Alsatian’s chances of an away win in Bulgaria in a troop already in the flow of the game.