The Bulgarian national football team left in good spirits for Belfast on a charter flight from Plovdiv Airport, BTA reported. The selector Ilian Iliev did not speak to the media in advance, and there is one new person in the team – Angel Lyaskov.
The Lokomotiv Plovdiv left-back was called up urgently yesterday after it appeared that three were out due to suspensions due to accumulated yellow cards. The game with Luxembourg on Saturday, which ended 0-0, saw Alexander Kolev from the attack of the team, as well as defenders Alex Petkov and Fabian Nürnberger, receive their second sanction in four games so far. Iliev also had an invitation for Christian Dimitrov in his plans, but Levski's central defender is injured after the control of the "blues". against Heber on Friday at "Gerena", won 4:0.
Thus, Iliev will have to find replacements for the suspended among the remaining 23 players from the group. The good news for him is that there are no injuries, and even those traumatized from the meeting with Luxembourg are fully recovered.
The BFS group is traditionally led by the president Georgi Ivanov, and together with him are the vice president Atanas Furnadzhiev and the directors Kiril Kotev and Dobrin Gyonov.
The press conference of the Bulgarian coach is tonight at 21:00 Bulgarian time, and immediately after is the official training session at "Windsdor Park".
Before the fourth round in group C/3 of the League of Nations tournament, Belarus and Bulgaria have 5 points each, followed by Northern Ireland with 4 and Luxembourg with 1. The match Northern Ireland - Bulgaria is tomorrow, Tuesday, at 21:45 Bulgarian time time. With the same starting time, Belarus and Luxembourg are playing in the Hungarian city of Zalaegerszeg.