Tonight at 9:45 PM Bulgarian time, Ireland will host Bulgaria in a return match from the Nations League, after the first match in Plodvid a few days ago ended with a score of 1:2.
The clash at the “Aviva” stadium in Dublin will decide whether our national football team will advance to the higher league in the tournament. The stadium is expected to have 40,000 spectators, bTV reported.
The Bulgarian team comes out with optimism before the match - despite its modest capabilities and the mediocre game it is showing. One of the leaders of the Bulgarian national football team, Iliya Gruev, agreed with the opinion of the coach Ilian Iliev that more aggression and more won duels can bring victory.
“There are always expectations for us, I want us to improve our game and I hope we play well. There is a real chance to win and eliminate them. As a football player, this is my goal“, said the football player.
The coach of the Bulgarian national team, Ilian Iliev, wants his players to be aggressive and show a much better face than in the match in Plovdiv, BTA reported.
The Icelandic coach of the Republic of Ireland, Heimir Hallgrimsson, however, does not believe that the Bulgarians have a particularly dangerous team. "When I watched the match (in Plovdiv) on TV, even though we gave them a little more possession, there was never any danger of them creating anything scary for our goal," he said before the match.
So far, our representative team has visited Dublin seven times and has not recorded a single success - four draws and three losses. Interestingly, in these seven matches we have scored only two goals. They were scored by Valeri Bozhinov (1:1 in 2004) and Ivelin Popov (1:3 in 2019). There is also one more goal in our favor, but in the 1:1 draw on March 28, 2009. Kevin Kilbane scores an own goal, BLITZ recalls.
Today, the national team must certainly score in Eire's goal and not concede a goal to have a chance for a historic first victory in Dublin and qualification for League “B“ of the Nations League.