Bulgaria national football team takes on the visitors Sweden national football team at “Nacionalen Stadion Vasil Levski” in the gameweek seven of the Europe’s Qualifiers Group stage for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. The match will be played in Sofia on Thursday, August 31st.
The forthcoming clash is the last chance for Bulgaria to stay in the battle for taking the first two places in the Group A. After six rounds played the Bulgarian side settles on the fourth position in the Group standings with nine points taken and 9-12 goal difference. All these points were earned by Bulgaria at its own turf after 4:3 triumph over Luxembourg, 1:0 victory over Belarus and 2:0 win over the Netherlands. At the same time, showing strong football in face of its supporters the team demonstrates awful results on the road and the away matches of 2017 are a good evidence of it: having defeated the Netherlands at its own ground, Petar Hubchev’s side was broken 1:2 by Belarus at away field.
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Sweden comes up to the clash with five-game unbeaten run, having earned four victories and a single draw during that series. The Scandinavian team is the leader of the Group A with 13 points gained and 12-4 goal difference and is leaving the French behind due to their head-to-heads thanks to the summer triumph after Ola Toivonen punishing the French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris for a mistake with an astonishing goal from the field centre. The Swedish side has conducted only two encounters on the road in this qualifying campaign, having got 1:2 defeat to France and 1:0 victory over Luxembourg.
Sweden has not been beaten by Bulgaria since 1967 across 10 consecutive head-to-heads, having won last seven games including the one in the first lap at its own turf with 3:0 scoreline. The upcoming clash promises to be tough as the hosting team cannot afford itself to lose the fight by no means while the visitors must take some points as well. I believe that the teams will not play defensive football and at least a couple of goals will be scored.
Prediction for the match: Over 2.0 scored goals.
