VILNIUS. Lithuania conquers Bulgaria 3-1.
D. Iliev missed a decisive penalty (14′). That would have allowed Bulgaria to draw the match.
D. Iliev missed 1 penalty (14′) for Bulgaria.
The match was played at the Vilniaus LFF stadionas stadium in Vilnius on Saturday and it started at 1:00 pm local time. The referee was Evgen Aranovskiy with the assistance of Volodymyr Volodin and Oleksandr Zhukov. The 4th official was Sergiy Boyko. The weather was clear. The temperature was cold at 13.5 degrees Celsius or 56.28 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 44%.
Match Statistics
Bulgaria was in firm control of the ball 55% while Lithuania was struggling with a 45% ball possession.
Lithuania was more aggressive with 49 dangerous attacks and 16 shots of which 5 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Lithuania won the match.
Lithuania shot 16 times, 5 on target, 11 off target. On the other side, Bulgaria shot 14 times, 4 on target, 10 off target.
Cards
Lithuania received 4 yellow cards (J. Lasickas, E. Vaitkunas, A. Novikovas and K. Laukzemis). On the other side, Bulgaria received 3 yellow cards (G. Yomov, P. Vitanov and V. Antov).
Match Timeline
Standings
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Group I
Group J
After this encounter, Lithuania will have 3 points to stay in the 5th place. On the other side, Bulgaria will stay with 5 points like Northern Ireland to stay in the 4th place.
Next matches
In the next match in the WC Qualification Europe, Lithuania will host Switzerland on the 12th of October with a 3-0 head to head record in favor of Switzerland (0 draws).
Bulgaria will host Northern Ireland on the 12th of October with a 1-0 head to head in favor of Bulgaria (1 draw).
Lithuania – Formation
Lithuania
13'
67'
18'
Lithuania adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).
The manager Valdas Ivanauskas decided to play with the following team: Ernestas Šetkus , Egidijus Vaitkūnas , Benas Šatkus , Linas Klimavičius , Rolandas Baravykas , Linas Megelaitis , Vykintas Slivka , Justas Lasickas , Fedor Černych , Arvydas Novikovas and Karolis Laukžemis .
The home team had on the bench: Edvinas Girdvainis, Ovidijus Verbickas , Ernestas Veliulis, Titas Krapikas, Vilius Armanavičius, Edvinas Gertmonas, Vytas Gaspuitis, Dominykas Barauskas, Edgaras Dubickas, Domantas Šimkus, Donatas Kazlauskas and Martynas Dapkus.
Substitutions
Lithuania made 3 changes: L. Megelaitis for O. Verbickas (67′), K. Laukzemis for D. Kazlauskas (74′) and F. Cernych for M. Dapkus (90′).
Best player: Justas Lasickas
The player that probably impressed the most for Lithuania was Justas Lasickas.
His rating is with 1 goal, 38 passes (71% accurate) and 4 key passes. He was won 5 duels out of 15. He performed 3 crosses.
Bulgaria – Formation
Bulgaria
Also Bulgaria adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).
On the other side, Yasen Petrov played with: Martin Lukov , Andrea Hristov , Petko Hristov , Valentin Antov , Vasil Bozhikov , Petar Vitanov , Kristiyan Malinov , Kiril Despodov , Todor Nedelev , Georgi Yomov and Dimitar Iliev .
They had on the bench: Ivan Turitsov, Spas Delev , Ivan Karadzhov, Kaloyan Krastev , Ivajlo Chochev , Ilian Iliev , Radoslav Kirilov, Svetoslav Vutsov, Borislav Tsonev, Dominik Yankov , Birsent Karagaren and Dimitar Velkovski.
Substitutions
Bulgaria made 5 changes: K. Malinov for I. Iliev (60′), P. Vitanov for I. Chochev (61′), D. Iliev for K. Krastev (72′), G. Yomov for S. Delev (72′) and T. Nedelev for D. Yankov (87′).
Best player: Petko Hristov
The player that probably impressed the most for Bulgaria was Petko Hristov.
His rating is with 62 passes (79% accurate) and 2 key passes. He was won 9 duels out of 13.
Results of the day
These are the results of the day in the WC Qualification Europe.
- Poland – San Marino – 5-0
- Hungary – Albania – 0-1
- Andorra – England – 0-5
- Moldova – Denmark – 0-4
- Faroe Islands – Austria – 0-2
- Scotland – Israel – 3-2
- Sweden – Kosovo – 3-0
- Georgia – Greece – 0-2
- Finland – Ukraine – 1-2
- Kazakhstan – Bosnia and Herzegovina – 0-2
- Switzerland – Northern Ireland – 2-0
- Lithuania – Bulgaria – 3-1
- Luxembourg – Serbia – 0-1
- Azerbaijan – Republic of Ireland – 0-3
