For many years now, watching our national football team is a kind of masochism. The hope that this feeling would disappear had appeared for a few matches and under the only coach for the moment, Iliyan Iliev.
However, on Tuesday evening in Belfast, the so-called our national team returned the nightmares with full steam and disgusted even their coach with their game.
He is certainly to blame too. But this is a fragment. From the hopeless picture called the national football team of Bulgaria. The reasons have long been known. But to look so pitiful against one of the weakest national teams on the Island and against a below average team in general?
This is a living insult to the great game, which in our country is obviously mutating into a completely different sport. And even in a dummy tournament like the League of Nations, heavily criticized by players in Europe because of the crazy calendar.
Another embarrassing night
Against the background of the ambitions to win the groups and the fact that we defeated Northern Ireland a month ago in Plovdiv, hardly anyone suspected that this evening Bulgaria would record one of its most embarrassing matches in history.
In recent years, the matches defined as “embarrassing” are not one and two, and this one definitely falls among them, because five unanswered goals in our goal strung Northern Ireland.
Terrible in Belfast was not only the result, but also the game. In almost every attack, it seemed that the green Irish teams had dressed the biggest stars in football. The hosts easily and at times humiliatingly overcame our defense, and the resulting 5:0 was completely logical.
Can we be last in the group again
After Northern Ireland humiliated us in football – 5:0 in the middle of Belfast, which largely called into question our advertised goal of winning this group. As ridiculous as it sounds to talk about winning a group after such a result, Bulgaria still has its chances.
While the home players scored goal after goal in Belfast, Belarus and Luxembourg drew 1-1, which was an excellent result from our point of view.
At the moment, the situation is as follows: Northern Ireland has 7 points, Belarus has 6, Bulgaria has 5 and Luxembourg 2.
If Bulgaria wants to win its group, it must win its next two games – away to Luxembourg on November 15 and hosting Belarus three days later.
This will give the home side a total of 11 points, but to be first with such an asset, Northern Ireland must lose at least one of their remaining two games. They are home to Belarus and away to Luxembourg.
This is the only scenario where we win the group – two of our wins and a maximum of three points for Northern Ireland from the last two games.
Of course, we must be aware that there is also the opposite, totally shameful option, namely that Bulgaria falls into Group “D” among the weakest on the continent.
Here are the remaining matches in this group:
November 15:
Luxembourg – BULGARIA
Northern Ireland – Belarus
November 18:
BULGARIA – Belarus
Luxembourg – Northern Ireland
Ranking: Northern Ireland 7t. Belarus 6t. Bulgaria 5t. Luxembourg 2t.
Coach: Disgusting! It’s all my fault
National coach Ilian Iliev took full responsibility for the embarrassing result in Belfast. The home team fell 0:5 to Northern Ireland in the League of Nations tournament, and this was Iliev’s first defeat at the head of the team.
However, he himself admitted that such a defeat washes away all the positive impressions that the team had made so far.
Ilian Iliev took full responsibility for what happened and stated that he failed to get his players to respond to the aggression of their opponents.
“What I talked about yesterday came true. I said that if we don’t respond to the aggression of the hosts, what will happen will happen.
It is entirely my fault that I did not convince the footballers of what awaits us. The first two goals were a real gift, we conceded easy goals, and the hosts mentally freed themselves and it happened what happened. It’s my fault. I failed to prepare the team to meet the aggression of Northern Ireland.
Whatever we are talking about right now is empty talk. We played a horrible game. In the previous games we defended well, but today we let the ball go to their forwards very easily.
We suffered a heavy loss for which I will take responsibility. This loss erases everything positive we have done so far,” he said.
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