Bulgaria drew 0-0 with Luxembourg in a Nations League match. The match was played in front of full stands at the Hristo Botev Stadium. After the result the Lions continue without a loss under the leadership of Ilian Iliev. Our team already has five points in its asset.
About 20 minutes before the players took the field at the "College" stadium of Botev (Plovdiv) the song "Oath" was played in memory of the music legend Kiril Marichkov, who died yesterday in an accident.
The glorious mentor of Lokomotiv (Plovdiv) and Botev (Plovdiv) Atanas Dramov also left this world. The full stands at the Hristo Botev stadium honoured the rock luminary and famous coach with a special light show during the cult song from the movie "Yesterday". The first scoring opportunity was in front of Filip Krustev. In the 15th minute, Luxembourg goalkeeper Anthony Maurice took a strong touch on the ball, which allowed the midfielder to control it. A shot followed, but the defenders in dark blue managed to clear. Minutes followed without any serious scoring chances, until the 37th minute when Aleksandar Kolev missed a scoring opportunity.
In the 70th minute the captain Kiril Despodov shot from a foul. The winger headed the ball towards the bottom left corner of the goal, but Anthony Morris pounced and cleared it with one hand. Six minutes later Georgi Minchev replaced the much-thrown Aleksandar Kolev. In added time Zdravko Dimitrov could have found the far corner, but the visitors' keeper was concentrated and managed to punch away a corner.
Bulgaria: Dimitar Mitov, Viktor Popov, Zhivko Atanasov, Alex Petkov, Fabian Nürnberger, Georgi Kostadinov, Valentin Antov, Filip Krastev, Kiril Despodov, Alexander Kolev, Radoslav Kirilov. Luxembourg: 1. Anthony Morris, 18. Lauren Jans, 14. Seid Korach, 13. Dirk Karlsson, 17. Mika Pinto, 8. Christopher Martins, 9. Danelle Sinani, 19. Matthias Olesen, 16. Leandro Bareiro, 4. Florian Bohnert, 5. Alessio Curci.
