Hoffenheim v Ludogorets background
Hoffenheim’s entrance deteriorate in European foe will finish with this fixture, yet Ludogorets know that a win or a pull in Germany will secure their participation in a turn of 32 for a second unbroken year.
• The Bulgarian side can also means to remove and still go by if İstanbul Başakşehir destroy to win a other Group C tie during home to already-qualified Braga. Ludogorets will tip a organisation if they win and Braga do not.
Previous meetings
• In a teams’ initial assembly on matchday two, Ludogorets got a improved of Hoffenheim in Razgrad, coming from behind to win 2-1. Czech general Pavel Kadeřábek gave a German bar an early lead, yet second-half strikes by Svetoslav Dyakov and Jody Lukoki incited a compare round, giving Ludogorets 3 points from their initial compare opposite German opposition.
• That was a initial Bulgarian win in 12 years and 12 UEFA games between Bulgarian and German sides in UEFA bar foe (D4 L7), yet a 3 prior fixtures had finished in draws.
Form guide
• Hoffenheim have scored in all 7 of their European fixtures yet have won usually one of them, losing five.
• Ludogorets are dominant in 5 divided games in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre (W4 D1) and have mislaid usually once in 9 divided fixtures in a foe as a whole (W6 D2). They have kept purify sheets in their final 4 UEFA Europa League matches outward Bulgaria, posting 3 unbroken goalless draws before overcoming Braga 2-0 on matchday four.
• Beaten by Liverpool home and divided in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, Hoffenheim are contesting a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre in their entrance deteriorate in European competition.
• Bulgarian champions for a past 6 seasons, Ludogorets reached a turn of 16 in their usually prior UEFA Europa League organisation theatre campaign, 2013/14; they also played in final season’s turn of 32 after transferring from a UEFA Champions League.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Razgrad to Sinsheim is around 1,500km.
• This will be Ludogorets’ 58th UEFA foe game, all in a past 6 seasons – and Hoffenheim’s eighth.
• Hoffenheim’s Kerem Demirbay and Ãdám Szalai are suspended.
• Suspended for subsequent compare if booked: Natanael (Ludogorets); Dennis Geiger, Andrej Kramarić, Nadiem Amiri, Mark Uth (Hoffenheim).
The coaches
• Hired in a summer of 2017, Ludogorets trainer Dimitar Dimitrov determined his coaching certification during home-town bar Neftochimik Burgas and landed Bulgarian titles with Litex Lovech and Levski Sofia, after coaching in Russia and Kazakhstan.
• Hoffenheim manager Julian Nagelsmann’s personification career finished betimes due to determined knee problems, yet he shone as a girl manager and – aged 28 – took assign of Hoffenheim in 2016, apropos a Bundesliga’s youngest-ever comparison boss.