Serie A high flyers Inter Milan travel to Bulgaria for Thursday's Europa Leaugue round of 32 match. The hosts made it to the knock out round after emerging the second best team in Group H. The team won twice and drew twice in their group campaigns, while scoring ten and conceding ten goals.
Inter Milan, on their part, entered this round of the competition after dropping from the Champions League, where they were third in a group that had Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund progressing to the next round.
The Bulgarians are presently placed at the top of their domestic league and travel after a 6-0 win over Botev Vrasta, a game that had braces by Mercilinho and Swierczok and single goals by Abel and Kaseru.
Visitors Inter Milan will be hoping for a better run in Europe's second competition after dropping from the Champions League. Coach Antonio Conte will, however, have to seal the gaps in his backline, which greatly contributed to their departure from the Champions League.
Inter travel for the match after falling 2-1 at Lazio in the twenty fourth round of the Serie A, after which they dropped to third in the league standings. In the match, Ashley Young had set the Nerazzuri on the path to victory with a first half strike but defensive lapses allowed the hosts to score twice in the second half for the victory.
Ludogorets may have been lucky to rise past the group games but this is as far as they will come in the contest. It will be hard for them to overcome attacks by the wounded Inter Milan, who would like to shake off their Champions League disappointment with a triumph in the Europa League. We see Inter Milan winning this match, possibly by an unassailable scoreline ahead of the second leg.