The captain of the national football team Kiril Despodov and the goalkeeper of our representative team Dimitar Mitov received the lowest marks after the 0:5 pogrom in Belfast from Northern Ireland.
The PAOK winger gets 5.5 out of 10. Only our goalkeeper Mitov has a lower rating, who has 4.5.
According to the media on the Island, Despodov did not live up to expectations at all before the meeting. And he has been a pale shadow compared to his previous matches for the national team. Mitov’s assessment cannot help but be low, after he scored as many as 5 goals in Belfast, and in the previous 3 matches of the League of Nations, he had not let in a single goal.
“The Bulgarians were beaten in every single paragraph in the match that shot us to the top of the group. Martin O’Neill’s players did not leave any chance to Ilian Iliev’s selection. And for most of the match, they looked miserable”, writes the “Belfast News” in its analysis of the match.
Filip Krastev and Zhivko Atanasov received the highest marks from us. The midfielder has 6.7 and according to the media in Northern Ireland was the only one to play at the level. With 6.5 is the defender Zhivko Atanasov.
The highest score for the meeting logically goes to Isaac Price, who scored a hat trick. The player of “Standart” (Liège) played the match of his career against ours. With his goals against Bulgaria, he became the youngest player ever to score three goals in one game for Northern Ireland.
“After the game I let the players have a good party because the match against Bulgaria could be our last in Belfast in the Nations League,” said Northern Ireland coach Martin O’Neill. The team’s next home game, which is due to be against Belarus, may be outside the Island because their opponent is likely to be denied visas. And that is why UEFA is considering moving the match.