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Bulgarian champion Ludogorets will play Belgian Antwerp in the first match of this year’s phase of the Europa League. The group J match starts at 22:00 Bulgarian time and you can follow it live on Gong.bg.
Due to the composition of the “eagles” it is impressive that the Bulgarian champion comes out with five Bulgarians among the starters. These are Plamen Iliev, Georgi Terziev, Anton Nedyalkov, Dominik Yankov, and Kiril Despodov.
Las Águilas managed to qualify for the group stage of the second European club tournament for the fifth time in their history, after doing so in the 2013/2014, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 seasons. Ludogorets’ greatest success in the Europa League is undoubtedly the ranking of the round of 16 of the tournament in 2013/2014, when the team did not lose a single stage of the group stage and eliminated the great Italian Lazio before being eliminated from Spanish Valencia.
Naturally, the goal of Pavel Varba’s boys will be to leave the group and participate in the 1/16 finals, but the team will first have to deal not only with Antwerp, but also with the Swiss LASK Linz, as well as the great Tottenham. English, who keeps company with “eagles”.
Ludogorets – Antwerp 0: 0
Here are the lineups for both teams:
Ludogorets: Iliev, Cicinho, Verdon, Terziev, Nedyalkov, Badji, Santana, Yankov, Cowley Oliveira, Marin, Despodov;
Antwerp: Butes, Batubinsika, Gelin, De Laet, Yuclerod, Hogla, Harun, Gerkens, Mioshi, Rafaelov, Benavente
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