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Bulgaria 1-0 Northern Ireland - September 08, 2024 / Nations League C 2024

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Nations League C 2024 - Round 2 - Group 3

Hristo Botev - Plovdiv - Bulgaria

September 08, 2024 - 18:00

1 - 0

Northern Ireland

Assist by Aleksandar KolevKiril Despodov

40'

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27' - Yellow card Shea Charles

29' - Yellow card Paddy McNair

40' - Goal Kiril Despodov40

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59' - Substitution Dion Charlesis substituted by Shayne Lavery photo Conor Bradley

59' - Yellow card Conor Bradley

62' - Substitution Aleksandar Kolevis substituted by Ahmed Ahmedov62

72' - Substitution Martin Minchevis substituted by Vasil Panayotov photo Zdravko Dimitrov

72' - Substitution Radoslav Kirilovis substituted by Zdravko Dimitrov72

73' - Substitution Paddy McNairis substituted by Callum Marshall photo Paul Smyth

73' - Substitution George Savilleis substituted by Paul Smyth

78' - Substitution Georgi Kostadinovis substituted by Simeon Petrov photo Stanislav Ivanov

78' - Substitution Kiril Despodovis substituted by Stanislav Ivanov photo Ahmed Ahmedov

78' - Yellow card Ahmed Ahmedov78

81' - Yellow card Trai Hume

82' - Substitution Isaac Priceis substituted by Alistair McCann

83' - Substitution Trai Humeis substituted by Ross McCausland

91' - Yellow card Fabian Nürnberger91

93' - Yellow card Aleksandar Kolev93

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Bulgaria

1 - 0

Northern Ireland

Bulgaria Northern Ireland

Team line-ups

Bulgaria

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

9Kolev6293

Aleksandar Kolev

Bulgaria

B.date08/12/1992

Age31 years

H1m91

positionCentre forward

8Kirilov72

Radoslav Kirilov

Bulgaria

B.date29/06/1992

Age32 years

H1m70

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

17M. Minchev72

Martin Minchev

Bulgaria

B.date22/04/2001

Age23 years

H1m84

positionRight Winger

11Despodov4078

Kiril Despodov

Bulgaria

B.date11/11/1996

Age27 years

H1m79

positionRight Winger

4Gruev

Ilia Gruev

Bulgaria

B.date06/05/2000

Age24 years

H1m85

positionDefensive Midfielder

7Kostadinov78

Georgi Kostadinov

Bulgaria

B.date07/09/1990

Age34 years

H1m84

positionMidfield

13Nürnberger91

Fabian Nürnberger

Bulgaria

B.date28/07/1999

Age25 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

5Petkov

Aleks Petkov

Bulgaria

B.date25/07/1999

Age25 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

3Atanasov

Zhivko Atanasov

Bulgaria

B.date03/02/1991

Age33 years

positionCentral defender

16Popov

Viktor Popov

Bulgaria

B.date05/03/2000

Age24 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

1Mitov

Dimitar Mitov

Bulgaria

B.date22/01/1997

Age27 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Dimitar Mitov		27	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Zhivko Atanasov		33	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Aleks Petkov		25	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	D	Fabian Nürnberger	91	25	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	D	Viktor Popov		24	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Ilia Gruev		24	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Georgi Kostadinov	78	34	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Radoslav Kirilov	72	32	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Aleksandar Kolev	6293	31	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Martin Minchev	72	23	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Kiril Despodov	4078	27	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Northern Ireland

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10D. Charles59

Dion Charles

Northern Ireland

B.date07/10/1995

Age28 years

H1m78

positionForward

14Price82

Isaac Price

Northern Ireland

B.date26/09/2003

Age20 years

positionCentre Midfield

2Bradley59

Conor Bradley

Northern Ireland

B.date09/07/2003

Age21 years

H1m81

positionRight full-back

6Saville73

George Saville

Northern Ireland

B.date01/06/1993

Age31 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

19S. Charles27

Shea Charles

Northern Ireland

B.date05/11/2003

Age20 years

positionCentral defender

3Lewis

Jamal Lewis

Northern Ireland

B.date25/01/1998

Age26 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Defender

5Hume8381

Trai Hume

Northern Ireland

B.date18/03/2002

Age22 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

22Brown

Ciaron Brown

Northern Ireland

B.date14/01/1998

Age26 years

H1m85

positionLeft full-back

17McNair7329

Paddy McNair

Northern Ireland

B.date27/04/1995

Age29 years

H1m84

positionRight full-back

4Ballard

Daniel Ballard

Northern Ireland

B.date22/09/1999

Age24 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

1Peacock-Farrell

Bailey Peacock-Farrell

Northern Ireland

B.date29/10/1996

Age27 years

H1m92

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Bailey Peacock-Farrell		27	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Shea Charles	27	20	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Jamal Lewis		26	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Daniel Ballard		24	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Trai Hume	8381	22	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	D	Paddy McNair	7329	29	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Ciaron Brown		26	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	M	Conor Bradley	59	21	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Isaac Price	82	20	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	George Saville	73	31	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Dion Charles	59	28	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
23	G	Ivan Dyulgerov		25
21	G	S. V. Vutsov		22
15	D	Simeon Petrov	78	24	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Valentin Antov		23
2	D	Ertan Tombak		25
18	M	Vasil Panayotov	72	33	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	M	Ivan Minchev		33
14	M	Georgi Rusev		26
19	F	Ahmed Ahmedov	6278	29	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	F	Zdravko Dimitrov	72	26	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	F	Stanislav Ivanov	78	25	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Georgi Minchev		29

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Luke Southwood		26
23	G	Joshua Clarke		20
18	D	Eoin Toal		25
16	M	Alistair McCann	82	24	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	M	Corry Evans		34
20	M	Ethan Galbraith		23
8	F	Callum Marshall	73	19	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Shayne Lavery	59	25	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Ross McCausland	83	21	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Paul Smyth	73	26	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	F	Josh Magennis		34
15	F	Brad Lyons		27

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Georgi Kostadinov

Filip Krastev

OUT

Martin Minchev

Valentin Antov

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Jamal Lewis

Callum Marshall

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ilian Iliev

Success rate in this team:

25 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Iliev vs Northern Ireland

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 08, 2024

Iliev vs O'Neill

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 08, 2024

Manager

Age

Match num

Michael O'Neill

Success rate in this team:

36 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

44 %

O'Neill vs Bulgaria

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 08, 2024

O'Neill vs Iliev

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 08, 2024

Referee

Anasthasios Sidiropoulos

1 victory	0 draw	2 losses	Bulgaria3 matches	General total	Northern Ireland2 matches	0 victory	1 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	Season total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
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Assistant Referee

Polychronis Kostaras

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	General total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	Season total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
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Assistant Referee

Lazaros Dimitriadis

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	General total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	Season total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
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4th official

Vasilios Fotias

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	General total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	Season total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 08, 2024					Latest figure on September 08, 2024

Assistant Referee VAR

Angelos Evangelou

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	General total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	Season total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 08, 2024					Latest figure on September 08, 2024

Assistant VAR Referee

Ioannis Papadopoulos

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	General total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	Season total	Northern Ireland1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 08, 2024					Latest figure on September 08, 2024

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Key figures

Northern Ireland keeps its 7 matches with at least one goal scored running (since 20/11/2023). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 04/09/2015-27/05/2016 time period (8 matches).

End of streak for Bulgaria after 5 consecutive matches without a win at home (since 24/03/2023). It was the best streak for the club since 07/09/2010-11/10/2011 (6 matches).

Northern Ireland keeps its 3 matches with at least one goal scored away from home in Nations League C running (since 09/06/2022). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 19 key stats

General ranking

+2	1	Belarus	4 pts	2 rd
	2	Bulgaria	4 pts	2 rd
-2	3	Northern Ireland	3 pts	2 rd
	4	Luxembourg	0 pt	2 rd

General ranking

+2	1	Belarus	4 pts	2 rd
	2	Bulgaria	4 pts	2 rd
-2	3	Northern Ireland	3 pts	2 rd
	4	Luxembourg	0 pt	2 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VBulgaria 5-1 Gibraltar23/09/2022

LBulgaria 0-1 Montenegro24/03/2023

DBulgaria 1-1 Serbia20/06/2023

LBulgaria 0-1 Iran07/09/2023

LBulgaria 0-2 Lithuania14/10/2023

DBulgaria 2-2 Hungary16/11/2023

Overall

DSerbia 2-2 Bulgaria19/11/2023

VTanzania 0-1 Bulgaria22/03/2024

DAzerbaijan 1-1 Bulgaria25/03/2024

DRomania 0-0 Bulgaria04/06/2024

DSlovenia 1-1 Bulgaria08/06/2024

DBelarus 0-0 Bulgaria05/09/2024

Current form

Away

LSlovenia 4-2 Northern Ireland07/09/2023

LKazakhstan 1-0 Northern Ireland10/09/2023

LFinland 4-0 Northern Ireland17/11/2023

DRomania 1-1 Northern Ireland22/03/2024

VScotland 0-1 Northern Ireland26/03/2024

LSpain 5-1 Northern Ireland08/06/2024

Overall

VNorthern Ireland 2-0 Denmark20/11/2023

DRomania 1-1 Northern Ireland22/03/2024

VScotland 0-1 Northern Ireland26/03/2024

LSpain 5-1 Northern Ireland08/06/2024

VNorthern Ireland 2-0 Andorra11/06/2024

VNorthern Ireland 2-0 Luxembourg05/09/2024

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	4
Unbeaten streak	1	7
Winless streak	5	4
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	10	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	2
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	2
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	2	4
Scoring streak	3	6
Conceding streak	1	0
Invincibility streak	0	2

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

Goals

0	Goals scored (Competition total)	2
0	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
0	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2
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
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
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

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

Key players

-	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Paddy McNair
-	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	George Saville
-	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Paddy McNair

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

3 v

0 d

1 l

9 gf

6 ga

Away

4 matches

2 v

1 d

1 l

2 gf

2 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Total

9 matches

5 v

2 d

2 l

11 gf

8 ga

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

1 v

1 d

2 l

2 gf

2 ga

Away

4 matches

1 v

0 d

3 l

6 gf

9 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Total

9 matches

2 v

2 d

5 l

8 gf

11 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	October 18, 1972
Home	3 - 0	October 18, 1972

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	May 02, 1979
Away	2 - 0	November 29, 1978

Latest head to head

October 12, 2021 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 2022

Bulgaria

2 - 1

Northern Ireland logo Northern Ireland

March 31, 2021 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 2022

Northern Ireland

0 - 0

Bulgaria

February 06, 2008 - Rencontres amicales 2008

Northern Ireland

0 - 1

Bulgaria

June 02, 2001 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 2002

Northern Ireland

0 - 1

Bulgaria

March 28, 2001 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 2002

Bulgaria

4 - 3

Northern Ireland logo Northern Ireland

Best historical scorers against Northern Ireland

Martin Petrov	2 goals	2001 - 2001
Todor Nedelev	2 goals	2021 - 2021
Krasimir Balakov	1 goal	2001 - 2001
Krassimir Chomakov	1 goal	2001 - 2001
Georgi Ivanov	1 goal	2001 - 2001

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/11/1978. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Bulgaria

Gerry Armstrong	2 goals	1978 - 1979
Mark Williams	1 goal	2001 - 2001
Stuart Elliott	1 goal	2001 - 2001
Chris Nicholl	1 goal	1979 - 1979
Conor Washington	1 goal	2021 - 2021
David Healy	1 goal	2001 - 2001

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/11/1978. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Northern Ireland

Martin Petrov	3 matches	2001 - 2008
Marian Hristov	2 matches	2001 - 2001
Milen Petkov	2 matches	2001 - 2001
Krasimir Balakov	2 matches	2001 - 2001
Andrea Hristov	2 matches	2021 - 2021
Georgi Ivanov	2 matches	2001 - 2001

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 18/10/1972. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Bulgaria

Bryan Hamilton	4 matches	1972 - 1979
Sammy Nelson	3 matches	1972 - 1979
Damien Johnson	3 matches	2001 - 2008
Keith Gillespie	3 matches	2001 - 2008
Martin O'Neill	3 matches	1973 - 1979
David Healy	3 matches	2001 - 2008