Bulgaria - Belarus
Bulgaria - BelarusBulgaria hosts Belarus in World Cup qualifier of the fourth round of group "A". The match is Sunday, November 13, at 19:00 at the stadium "Vasil Levski".
After the first three rounds of the Bulgarian national team has only three points won against underdog in the group Lyuksembrg, and is located on the fourth position. Belarus does have a point less and is in fifth place. Leaders of the group are France and Sweden with seven points, while the Netherlands has four third place.
Bulgaria was very close to failure at the start of qualifying, but pulled victory with 4: 3 against Luxembourg. He expected much easier success of the "tricolor" of Vasil Levski, but the reality is that we are not far above the level of Luxembourg.
In the next two matches Bulgaria failed to oppose France and Sweden lost both their away matches respectively with 1: 0 and 4: 3. In the World Cup qualifiers Bulgaria played very well at home. In the previous qualifying round in 2012 they made draws with Italy and Denmark at home, beat Armenia and Malta as retreated only to the Czech Republic. The defeat of the Czechs was first Bulgarian team in 11 consecutive World Cup qualifiers unbeaten at home. To maintain illusory chance to qualify ahead, led by Peter Hubchev team must beat Belarus tonight.
Guests from Belarus defeated Greece 1: 0 in a friendly match, which gained confidence before the visit in Sofia. In the last round of qualifications they made 1: 1 at home against Luxembourg. It was the second consecutive draw for the home team, having previously not given by France and the match ended 0: 0. In his only visit to Belarus currently slid 1: 4 of the Netherlands.
The team of Belarus is composed mainly of players of BATE Borisov, but also impresses the presence of players from Krasnodar and Astana and Dynamo Kiev and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Surely this will be a difficult match for Bulgaria and looking pretty close match, which is unlikely to fall more than two goals.