2024-04-14 04:24:07
After the good news about the global financial stabilization of the “Levski” football club, which fell into a deep hole of this nature, the sports stagnation of the “blues” continued.
In Varna, they also fell from the last member of the top 3 in the championship in consecutive matches.
“Black Sea”, which is the only one without a loss at home in the championship this season, beat “Levski” 3:1.
After 1:5 from the champion “Ludogorets” and 0:2 in the eternal derby against CSKA, the team from “Gerena” formed in the 3 consecutive losses in question a goal difference of 2:10.
“Levski” started with a redesigned defense due to the many staffing problems. Joaquin Fernandez, who partnered with Christian Dimitrov, made his debut as a starter. However, in the 1st minute, the home team got into a clear position.
Patrik-Gabriel Galchev misplaced a pass in the middle and made a counterattack for “Black Sea”, which Ilian Iliev Jr. finished with a shot, but over the post.
In the 40th minute, “Black Sea” took the lead in the result. “Sailors” made an attack that started from Kalkan, he passed to Ilian Iliev – Junior. The ball was passed to Vasil Panayotov, and he passed a shot to Ismail Isa. The attacker wedged himself between the central defenders and deflected the ball unsalvageably for Ivan Andonov – 1:0.
In stoppage time of the first half, the Blues tried a good attack, with the ball reaching El Jemili on the left flank. He tried a shot on the diagonal, but too weak to reach the goal.
The second half began with pressure for “Levski”. In the 51st minute, the “blues” equalized. Galchev started an attack with a nice pass to Marin Petkov, who brought Ricardinho into the penalty area and the Brazilian equalized with a nice shot in the near corner – 1:1.
After the goal, the “blues” continued to be the more active team and to attack. This is contrary to the previous matches, in which the team had much weaker second halves against “Slavia”, “Ludogorets”, and against CSKA.
However, in the 67th minute, “Cherno More” took the lead again. Ismail Isa was taken behind the back of the defense, shot, but Ivan Andonov managed it. The ball hit the foot of Kalkan, who was left uncovered and converted for 2:1.
In the 81st minute, “Black Sea” decided the match. Joaquin Fernandez made a unique mistake and gave the ball to Weslen Junior. He passed to Atanas Iliev in a corridor and the striker easily scored for 3:1.
Thus, Nikolay Kostov’s leftists deepened the crisis with a third loss in a row, and the only positive thing is that they cannot fall out of the top 6, because there is 1 round left until the end of the regular season.
The Blues are 5th with 51 points. “Black Sea” came second with 10 more, ahead of CSKA, which has 60. The leader with 69 and a game less is the champion “Ludogorets”.
