2024-05-11 22:26:15
“Ludogorets” won its 13th consecutive title in Bulgarian football, beating CSKA 3:1.
90 seconds into the game, Bernard Tekpetei raced past Bradley de Neuer and passed to Kwadwo Dua, who teed up Brian Cordoba to open.
Everything for CSKA should have ended in the 32nd minute when Volen Chinkov was the only one to see Cordoba’s shot against Rick Jonathan. However, Georgi Kabakov and Martin Margaritov, who were VAR, called him to correct his mistake.
Seconds later, Amos Juga brought Fernando Karanga alone on the wing. Sergio Pat went to cross him and was elegantly transferred by the striker at 1:1.
CSKA also collapsed at the beginning of the second half, when Anton Nedyalkov scored. In the 56th minute, Volen Chinkov didn’t see Karanga’s handball at a corner and had to be called again by Kabakov to give a penalty. Before the performance, Gustavo Busato tried to influence Dua, but was pushed off by two Ludogorets players under the benevolent gaze of the referee.
Dua scored for 3:1 and went to taunt Busato and there was a solid melee on the field. Chinkov decided that the provocateur had acted within the rules and sent off Bernard Tekpetei and Fernando Karanga and picked up a yellow card for Amos Juga, despite quite the fighting scenes on the pitch.
