First League · Bulgaria · Conference League Play-off Group - 3

CSKA 1948–Slavia Sofia

0–2

HT 0–1

Kick-off: Friday, 10 May 2024 at 13:45
Status: Match Finished
Venue: Stadion Vitosha, Bistrica

Goals and red cards

35'CSKA 1948Rosen Bozhinov · red card
42'Slavia SofiaD. Aleksandrov
65'Slavia SofiaT. Tasev

Match statistics

Match statistics
CSKA 1948		Slavia Sofia
9	Shots	18
3	Shots on target	6
0	Shots inside the box	7
4	Goalkeeper saves	3
5	Corners	3
2	Offsides	1
47%	Possession	53%
361	Passes	406
295	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Expected goals before kick-off: CSKA 1948 1.35 · Slavia Sofia 0.81. On the pitch: 0-2.
Shots CSKA 1948 9 · Slavia Sofia 18; on target 3 and 6.

Referee

G. Ivanov→

3.58

yellows per match

0.17

reds per match

matches of data

12 matches is a small sample — these averages are noisy and should not be read as a tendency.

Model prediction

Why this prediction?

The model puts the most likely outcome at 49.2%: “CSKA 1948 to win”. Second comes “a draw” at 29.7%.
Behind that distribution are the expected goals: 1.35 for CSKA 1948, 0.81 for Slavia Sofia.
The highest double chance value is 78.9% (1X — CSKA 1948 win or draw).
These values were computed from 498 past matches.

This is a prediction, not a guarantee; a probability is not a certainty.

These sentences are built by a fixed template; every number in them comes straight from the model's computation, none invented while the text was written.

CSKA 1948 to win49.2%

Draw29.7%

Slavia Sofia to win21.1%

When the model has said 45–50% in the past, 2,069 of 4,390 predictions were correct (47.1%). Accuracy record →

16	Fouls	20

0	Yellow cards	3

1	Red cards	0

First half

Actual: 0–1

CSKA 1948 lead at half-time40.7%

Level at half-time46.0%

Slavia Sofia lead at half-time13.4%

First-half double chance

1X — CSKA 1948 ahead or level86.6%

12 — not level at half-time54.0%

X2 — level or Slavia Sofia ahead59.3%

These values are not a fraction of the full-match prediction; they come from a separate model trained on the first-half scores of 498 matches. Its edge over the base rate is markedly smaller than the full-match model's — the measured figure is on the accuracy record. Read them more cautiously. First-half goal markets are not published because they failed to beat the base rate.

Expected fouls and corners

Fouls

CSKA 1948: at least 11Actual: 16
Slavia Sofia: at least 13Actual: 20

Corners

CSKA 1948: at least 4Actual: 5
Slavia Sofia: at least 4Actual: 3

These figures are set to hold in at least 60% of matches; in the rest the count comes in below them. No upper bound is stated — we make no "at most" claim. Yellow cards were measured and are not published: there our model did not beat the historical average.

What these probabilities rest on

Expected goals comes out of a team's attack weighed against its opponent's defence. A strong attack is damped when it meets a strong defence — which is why comparing the ratings on their own is misleading.

How many goals CSKA 1948 score1.35

Attack: CSKA 1948 score close to the league average.

Opponent's defence: Slavia Sofia's defence is close to the league average (1.04×), so it doesn't move the expectation much.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.35 goals (including home advantage).

How many goals Slavia Sofia score0.81

Attack: Slavia Sofia score close to the league average.

Opponent's defence: CSKA 1948 concede 23% fewer than the league average, which pulls the expectation down.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 0.81 goals (including the away penalty).

Most likely scorelines

1–015.0%1–114.5%0–011.1%

A single scoreline is always less likely than an outcome: “home win” is the sum of 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 and dozens more. So the most likely single score can be a draw while the most likely outcome is a home win; the two do not contradict each other.

Week 3 of the season. This prediction was computed from previous seasons. Summer transfers, budget changes and squad rebuilds aren't in the ratings yet — the model can only see that a team has been rebuilt once new results come in.

We measured this: the bias is only pronounced in the opening week. In this week the model's overall accuracy does not separate from the rest of the season — that is, we found no measurable flaw. The one tendency across all opening weeks is that home wins are called slightly too often (said 43.0%, got 41.9%; n=583).

This sample is small and not statistically established, which is why we do not correct the model for it. The correction we tried (pulling probabilities toward the league average) didn't win on holdout, so it wasn't added. Read opening-week predictions with a little more caution.