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UEFA U-21 Championship Qualifying 2023 - Round 5 - Group 5

Slaviya - Sofia - Bulgaria

September 07, 2021

Bulgaria U-21

Bulgaria

0 - 4

Wales U-21

Wales

27'

Jack Vale

42'

Billy Sass-DaviesAssist by Rhys Hughes

50'

Jack ValeAssist by Joe Adams

73'

Jack ValeAssist by Sam Pearson

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27' - Goal Jack Vale

42' - Goal Billy Sass-Davies

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46' - Substitution Martin Minchevis substituted by Mitko Mitkov46

50' - Goal Jack Vale

54' - Yellow card Edward Jones

58' - Substitution Vladimir Nikolovis substituted by Dimitar Tonev58

59' - Substitution Viktor Popovis substituted by Asen Donchev59

64' - Yellow card Joe Adams

73' - Goal Jack Vale

76' - Substitution Ilia Gruevis substituted by Dimo Krastev photo Stanislav Shopov

76' - Substitution Filip Krastevis substituted by Stanislav Shopov76

79' - Substitution Joe Adamsis substituted by Owen Beck photo Niall Huggins

79' - Substitution Sam Pearsonis substituted by Niall Huggins

81' - Yellow card Sam Bowen

83' - Substitution Jack Valeis substituted by Isaak Davies

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Bulgaria U-21

0 - 4

Wales U-21

Bulgaria U-21 Wales U-21

Team line-ups

Bulgaria U-21

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10V. Nikolov58

Vladimir Nikolov

Bulgaria

B.date07/02/2001

Age20 years

positionStriker

17Minchev46

Martin Minchev

Bulgaria

B.date22/04/2001

Age20 years

H1m84

positionRight Winger

9M. Petkov

Martin Petkov

Bulgaria

B.date15/01/2001

Age20 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

8Gruev76

Ilia Gruev

Bulgaria

B.date06/05/2000

Age21 years

H1m85

positionDefensive Midfielder

14F. Krastev76

Filip Krastev

Bulgaria

B.date15/10/2001

Age19 years

H1m78

positionBox-to-box midfielder

5Baurenski

Yoan Baurenski

Bulgaria

B.date25/10/2001

Age19 years

positionCentre Midfield

16Dichev

Martin Dichev

Bulgaria

B.date22/08/2000

Age21 years

positionLeft full-back

4Petrov

Hristiyan Ivaylov Petrov

Bulgaria

B.date24/06/2002

Age19 years

positionCentral defender

20S. Petrov

Simeon Petrov

Bulgaria

B.date12/01/2000

Age21 years

H1m95

positionCentral defender

6Popov59

Viktor Popov

Bulgaria

B.date05/03/2000

Age21 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

12Vutsov

Svetoslav Velislavov Vutsov

Bulgaria

B.date09/07/2002

Age19 years

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	S. V. Vutsov		19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	D	Simeon Petrov		21	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Hristiyan Ivaylov Petrov		19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Viktor Popov	59	21	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	D	Martin Dichev		21	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Ilia Gruev	76	21	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Filip Krastev	76	19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Yoan Baurenski		19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Martin Petkov		20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Vladimir Nikolov	58	20	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Martin Minchev	46	20	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

20 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Wales U-21

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10Hughes

Rhys Hughes

Wales

B.date21/09/2001

Age19 years

positionOffensive Midfielder

9Vale50732783

Jack Vale

Wales

B.date03/03/2001

Age20 years

H1m85

positionRight Winger

11Adams7964

Joe Adams

Wales

B.date13/02/2001

Age20 years

H1m76

positionMidfield

6Williams

Daniel Patrick Williams

Wales

B.date19/04/2001

Age20 years

H1m72

positionMidfield

8Bowen81

Sam Bowen

Wales

B.date14/01/2001

Age20 years

positionMidfield

14Pearson79

Sam Pearson

Wales

B.date26/10/2001

Age19 years

H1m70

positionRight Winger

3Jones54

Edward Jones

Wales

B.date25/10/2001

Age19 years

H1m83

positionLeft full-back

4Sass-Davies42

Billy Sass-Davies

Wales

B.date17/02/2000

Age21 years

H1m95

positionCentral defender

5Boyes

Morgan Boyes

Wales

B.date22/04/2001

Age20 years

H1m89

positionLeft full-back

2Stevens

Fin Stevens

Wales

B.date10/04/2003

Age18 years

positionRight full-back

1Barden

Daniel Barden

Wales

B.date02/01/2001

Age20 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Daniel Barden		20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Billy Sass-Davies	42	21	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Morgan Boyes		20	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Fin Stevens		18	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Edward Jones	54	19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Joe Adams	7964	20	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Sam Bowen	81	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Daniel Patrick Williams		20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Rhys Hughes		19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Sam Pearson	79	19	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Jack Vale	50732783	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

19.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Viktor Nikolov		20
13	D	Dimo Krastev	76	18	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Asen Donchev	59	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Patrick-Gabriel Galchev		20
11	M	Dimitar Tonev	58	19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Stanislav Shopov	76	19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Mitko Mitkov	46	21	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	F	Martin Sorakov		17
21	F	Marin Plamenov Petkov		17

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Nathan Shepperd		20
7	D	Niall Huggins	79	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	D	Ben Margetson		21
16	D	Ryan Astley		19
13	D	Owen Beck	79	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Elliot Thorpe		20
19	M	Keenan Patten		20
18	M	Kieron Evans		19
20	F	Isaak Davies	83	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Filip Krastev

Stanislav Shopov

OUT

Martin Petkov

Dimitar Tonev

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Rhys Hughes

Luke Jephcott

OUT

Daniel Patrick Williams

Ryan Stirk

OUT

Jack Vale

Niall Huggins

OUT

Sam Pearson

Sion Spence

OUT

Sam Bowen

Terry Taylor

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Aleksandar Dimitrov

Success rate in this team:

50 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

36 %

Dimitrov vs Wales U-21

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 07, 2021

Dimitrov vs Bodin

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 07, 2021

Manager

Age

Match num

Paul Bodin

Success rate in this team:

40 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

33 %

Bodin vs Bulgaria U-21

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 07, 2021

Bodin vs Dimitrov

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 07, 2021

Referee

Visar Kastrati

0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Bulgaria U-211 match	General total	Wales U-211 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Bulgaria U-211 match	Season total	Wales U-211 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on September 07, 2021					Latest figure on September 07, 2021

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Key figures

It's the first time in his career that Jack Vale scores at least 3 goals during the same game in his professional career with

It's the first time Billy Sass-Davies scores 1 goal vs in his professional career

It's the first time since the 15/11/2020 (Jack Vale1 with vs ) that a player (Jack Vale) scores at least 3 goals during the same UEFA U-21 Championship Qualifying game

Read the next 2 key stats

General ranking

+1	2	Wales U-21	4 pts	2 rd
	3	Netherlands U-21	3 pts	1 rd
-2	4	Bulgaria U-21	3 pts	2 rd
-1	5	Moldova U-21	1 pt	3 rd
-1	6	Gibraltar U-21	0 pt	2 rd

General ranking

	1	Switzerland U-21	6 pts	2 rd
+1	2	Wales U-21	4 pts	2 rd
	3	Netherlands U-21	3 pts	1 rd
-2	4	Bulgaria U-21	3 pts	2 rd
-1	5	Moldova U-21	1 pt	3 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LBulgaria 0-1 France U-2107/09/2018

DBulgaria 0-0 Russia U-2110/09/2019

LBulgaria 0-1 Serbia U-2111/10/2019

VBulgaria 3-0 Poland U-2115/11/2019

VBulgaria 1-0 Latvia U-2109/10/2020

VBulgaria 3-0 Estonia U-2117/11/2020

Overall

LRussia U-21 2-0 Bulgaria04/09/2020

VSerbia U-21 1-2 Bulgaria08/09/2020

VBulgaria 1-0 Latvia U-2109/10/2020

DPoland U-21 1-1 Bulgaria13/10/2020

VBulgaria 3-0 Estonia U-2117/11/2020

VMoldova U-21 0-2 Bulgaria03/09/2021

Current form

Away

LRomania U-21 2-0 Wales12/10/2018

LAlbania U-21 3-1 Wales11/06/2019

LMoldova U-21 2-1 Wales11/10/2019

LBosnia and Herzegovina U-21 1-0 Wales04/09/2020

LBelgium U-21 5-0 Wales09/10/2020

LGermany U-21 2-1 Wales17/11/2020

Overall

VWales 1-0 Bosnia and Herzegovina U-2119/11/2019

LBosnia and Herzegovina U-21 1-0 Wales04/09/2020

LBelgium U-21 5-0 Wales09/10/2020

VWales 3-0 Moldova U-2113/11/2020

LGermany U-21 2-1 Wales17/11/2020

DWales 0-0 Moldova U-2104/06/2021

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	2
Unbeaten streak	3	5
Drawless streak	4	2
Scoring streak	3	5
Invincibility streak	3	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	6	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	9	2
Drawless streak	6	0
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	11	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

General ranking (Competition total)

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

1	Number of games (Competition total)	1
0	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
1	Victories (Competition total)	0
0	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	1
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

2	Goals scored (Competition total)	0
0	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
2	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0
0	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	0
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
0	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

2	Yellow cards (Competition total)	2
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	1
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

	Martin Minchev	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)		-
	Martin Minchev	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player		-

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Away

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

3 ga

Total

2 matches

0 v

1 d

1 l

1 gf

3 ga

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

1 ga

Away

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Total

2 matches

1 v

1 d

0 l

3 gf

1 ga

Largest victory

No success yet

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 1	March 31, 2015
Away	No success yet

Latest head to head

March 25, 2016 - Eliminatoires Euro Espoirs 2017

Bulgaria U-21

0 - 0

Wales U-21 logo Wales

March 31, 2015 - Eliminatoires Euro Espoirs 2017

Wales U-21

3 - 1

Bulgaria U-21 logo Bulgaria

Best historical scorers against Wales U-21

Nikola Kolev

1 goal

2015 - 2015

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/03/2015. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Bulgaria U-21

	Tommy O'Sullivan	2 goals	2015 - 2015
	Joshua Yorwerth	1 goal	2015 - 2015

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/03/2015. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Wales U-21

Georg Iliev	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Radoslav Terziev	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Antonio Vutov	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Tsvetelin Chunchukov	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Aleksandar Vasilev	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Plamen Galabov	2 matches	2015 - 2016

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 31/03/2015. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Bulgaria U-21

Declan John	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Wes Burns	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Joshua Sheehan	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Lee Evans	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Tommy O'Sullivan	2 matches	2015 - 2016
Gethin Jones	2 matches	2015 - 2016