Rakow Czestochowa — Arda Kardzhali : Match Preview and Prediction for August 21,2025

Raków’s Past Season Performance

Raków looked simply fantastic last season. Surprisingly, the team narrowly missed out on becoming the national champion, with the final gap to Lech being just one point. Moreover, the team’s squad is quite impressive this current season as well.

Current Season Challenges for Raków

Raków has already created a multitude of problems for themselves at the start of this season. While the team confidently progressed past Žilina in the first qualification round, they struggled in the national championship, losing two league matches. The start of their confrontation against Maccabi was also disastrous; they lost the home match without managing to score. Only in recent games has some stability begun to emerge, following their comeback in matches against the Israeli team. In home fixtures, we haven’t seen the most confident Raków.

Arda’s Unexpected Qualification

Arda surprisingly qualified for the Conference League from Bulgaria. This is because the team did not even qualify through the champions’ path. In the decisive match, they managed to narrowly defeat CSKA, who were clear favorites in that encounter.

Arda’s Impressive Start to the Season

Representatives of Kardzhali, meanwhile, have started the current season brilliantly. Their progression past HJK was solely due to their moral and willpower. In the national championship, the team had a quite decent start, losing only their first match against CSKA, and then consistently accumulating points. Crucially, few expected to see them advance past Kauno so easily. Arda did not concede a single goal in those matches, even though the Lithuanians had seemingly assembled a ‘dream team’. Currently, the team boasts a streak of four consecutive matches without conceding any goals at all.