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The agony of the Bulgarian soccer team continues. The Lions racked up a third loss in a week, losing 1-0 at home to Wales tonight. The match was held in front of exactly 478 spectators, which is obviously the most serious certificate for the performance of the “tricolor”. 0 is the number of accurate shots in the direction of the “dragon” gate.
Coach Georgi Dermendzhiev had opted for a conservative strategy, which aimed to secure at least the point for us. However, his plans were thwarted by Johnny Williams, who arrived on time five minutes before the end. Before that, the Island’s guests missed out on several good positions through Rabbi Matondo.
Thus, the “tricolor” are in the last place of the group, having only one point. Against Ireland and Finland will be our last matches of this race in November.
The “Vasil Levski” match started very calmly. Unlike the Hungarian house, the Lions were extremely cautious and did not risk offensive action from the start.
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The first test for the insecure Bulgarian defense was a fact in the sixth minute, when two consecutive corners seriously worried the defense against Niki Mihailov. In the static positions indicated, the ball kept reaching Joe Rodin, who kept sending the ball over the top post.
Captain Nikolai Mihailov had to intervene more seriously a little later, when active Neco Williams crossed for Taylor Roberts. The Leeds striker pointed his head to the upper right corner, but our goalkeeper intervened appropriately.
Georgi Yomov received applause from the crowd after passing the ball between the legs of an opponent in the middle of the first half. But then the ball was taken away, creating a quick counterattack for Wales. It ended with a shot from Dan James, which had neither force nor precision.
At the end of this part, Kiril Despodov dumped the ball into the penalty area when he crossed a foul. His high pass missed none of our center-backs Georgi Terziev and Christian Dimitrov.
The second half did not start with optimism for our team, after it turned out that Kristian Malinov suffered an ankle injury and had to be replaced. Thus, in his place appeared the player from Beroe – Alexander Tsvetkov.
It was hot in the national stadium in the 50th minute, when our camp was just asked for a severe punishment for Daniel James. The Welshman entered Cicinho’s legs ugly, but only received a yellow card. This was not enough for our Brazilian defender, who sought self-defense, but Kiril Despodov quickly reassured him.
Harry Wilson shot very hard from a direct free kick in the 53rd minute, but the lack of a lot of work tonight wasn’t a problem for Mihailov, who boxed well and received praise from the stands. It can no longer be precisely understood if they were rather ironic.
Little by little, the “lions” began to look more and more boldly at the gate of Wales. Yomov and Despodov’s advances increased, as in the 54th minute Ludogorets’s new player advanced and made a cross for Kraev. Unfortunately our striker got under the ball and missed the goal kick.
The Bulgarian defense felt it would be angry with Rabbi Matondo, who joined after the break. The Schalke 04 star tied three of our defenders, but fortunately didn’t hit the far corner of Niki Mihailov.
The 478 Bulgarian fans witnessed a scandal between Kiril Despodov and Bozhidar Kraev, after the former decided to play individually and was shot. The player who declared himself leader of our team with №10 did not like that.
Wales blew the clearest scoring position of the match with the start of the 74th minute. Taylor Roberts provided a perfect cross for the young talent, who from a few yards, to our delight, sent the leather ball over the top beam.
The seemingly uneventful match, which would not have been undeserved if it ended in a draw, turned around after an attack in the 85th minute. Liverpool’s young defender – Neko Williams again had one-way traffic on the Bulgarian flank. His breakthrough ended with a perfect cross for Williams’ backup. Charalton’s player edged past Georgi Terziev and with a solid shot left Nikolay Mihailov no chance.
The collected goal threw our players into chess, who failed to create even a goal situation until the end, which is why at least we are angry that we missed the draw …
On November 15th our team will host for the last time in this edition of the tournament, when we host Finland in Sofia.
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