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The main time of the match ended in a draw 2: 2 (0: 1), the result did not change during extra time, and the hosts triumphed 4: 1 when hitting from the 11m mark.
The team led by Valdas Dambrauskas entered the last fourth qualifying stage of the Champions League, but although they stumbled there, they have already secured a place in the second stage of the European League in terms of capacity.
Thus, the strategist of the 44-year-old Bulgarian champion from Pakruojis will one way or another become the first Lithuanian coach this year, leading his team to one of the UEFA tournaments.
Valdas Dambrauskas (left, Photo: ludogorets.com)
While Tuesday’s match started with more success with regulars from the Champions League and a couple of favorites from Greece.
31 min A spectacular volley by Yioras M’Vila was about to become a goal, but a good save by the goalkeeper kept him out and Giorgo Masouro could only finish off the loose ball.
After the missed goal, V. Dambrauskas’s students became more active and threatened Olympiacos goals several times, reaching their goal just after the start of the second half.
Ruben Semedo, who often takes advantage of his speed, had a bad day due to the muddy pitch.
57 min Ludogorec was led by Pieros Sotiriou, an attacker from Cyprus who had taken the 11-meter penalty.
However, the 68 min. Similarly, the relationship was again leveled by Moroccan guest Youssef El-Arabi.
Towards the end of the second half, the Piraeus team was rescued once by goalkeeper Kostas Tzolakis, and in the 86th minute. Olympiacos defender Ousseynou Ba saw the second yellow card in front of him and had to leave the field.
As the goal from away goals in UEFA competitions no longer applies this season, the teams had to play more, but the Bulgarians were unable to take advantage of the quantitative advantage gained in the extra half hour.
However, success did not result in the penalty shoot-out: all Ludogorec’s attempts were accurate, at that time the former French team defender Mathieu Valbuena fired the ball into the Olympiacos top flight, while Ahmed Hassan’s shot was blocked by goalkeeper Kristian Kahlina.
The first match between the teams a week ago in Greece ended in a 1: 1 draw.
In next week’s Champions League final qualifying round, Ludogorec will play Malmo (Sweden), who beat Glasgow Rangers (Scotland) 2: 1 for the second time with the same result.
For their part, Olympiakos are entering the decisive stage of the second qualifying round of the European League, where they will face Slovan of Bratislava (Slovakia).
Ludogorec has played twice in the Champions League group stage so far (in the 2014-2015 and 2016-17 seasons).
On five more occasions, including last season, the Bulgarians competed in the main tournament of the European League.
At that time the trip of the Cluj CFR club represented by Giedrius Arlauskis in the Champions League was ending in Switzerland. The Romanian champions lost 1: 3 (1: 3) to the Young Boys of Bern.
Although Billel Omrani was the first among the guests, the Swiss responded with two goals from Jordan Siebatcheu and a goal from Nicolas Ngamaleu.
The first match ended 1: 1.
In both the first game and the second leg, G. Arlauskis defended the CFR goal in every game.
Now the 33-year-old Lithuanian club is entering the decisive stage of the European League team, where it will compete with Belgrade’s Crvena Zvezda.
The Serbian champions were unexpectedly eliminated by team Tiraspol Sheriff (Moldova) from the Champions League team with a total score of 2: 1.
The Ferencvaros Club of Budapest, which sent Vilnius Žalgiris to the European League qualification in the previous stage, moved closer to the Champions League. Although the Hungarians lost 0: 1 to Slavia (Czech Republic) in Prague on Tuesday, they won 2: 0.
Šachtar from Donetsk (Ukraine), Monaco (France), PSV from Eindhoven (Netherlands), Benfica from Lisbon (Portugal) and Dinamo from Zagreb (Croatia) also entered the fourth round of the prestigious tournament.
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