CSKA Sofia II moved further clear of the relegation battle with a 3-1 victory away to Dobrudzha in the Second League's Regular Season - 10. The match took place on 21 September 2026, and the visitors' performance suggested they were always likely to take something from Plovdiv. By then, the gap between second and seventeenth in the table had become rather wider.
The opening goal came at the half-hour mark, and though the scorer remains unnamed in the data, the timing told its own story. Dobrudzha had dominated possession with 55 per cent and recorded 130 attacks compared to 109, but possession alone does not win matches. And here's the thing — they were creating without converting.
Just before the break, at 45+1, CSKA Sofia II struck again to take a two-goal lead into the interval. The hosts had seven shots on target but could only find the net once, while the visitors matched them with seven of their own and scored three. To be fair, the efficiency differential was stark.
The third goal arrived in the sixtieth minute, and Dobrudzha's hopes began to fade. They picked up a yellow card in the sixty-second minute, then lost their composure further with another booking at sixty-eight, the same minute CSKA Sofia II added a fourth goal to what was already a comfortable cushion. The line had barely moved for the visitors despite the hosts' territorial advantage.
Two more yellow cards followed in the final twenty minutes — seventy-first and eighty-second — while CSKA Sofia II completed their yellow card tally with a booking at sixty-eight. The statistics showed a match where shots were evenly matched, but the result told a different tale entirely.
Dobrudzha sit seventeenth with six points from ten games, one win, three draws and six losses. CSKA Sofia II sit second with twenty points, six wins, two draws and two losses. The visitors have extended their unbeaten run beyond what the recent results suggested, though they had drawn with Ludogorets II and lost to Etar in their previous outings.
Our prediction had backed a home victory with 78 per cent confidence, but the match went another way. What broke the forecast was the visitors' clinical edge — seven shots on target, three goals, and the discipline to see out the game despite the pressure of playing away. The table goes out of the window in these games, but Dobrudzha needed more than possession to bridge the gap.
