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Bulgaria 2-2 France - October 09, 1976 / World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone 1978

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World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone 1978 - Round 1 - Group 5

Vasil Levski National Stadium - Sofia - Bulgaria

October 09, 1976

45 000

Bulgaria

2 - 2

France

(free kick) Hristo Bonev

45'

(left foot) Pavel Panov

68'

37'

Michel Platini (free kick)

40'

Bernard Lacombe (left foot)

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37' - Goal Michel Platini

40' - Goal Bernard Lacombe

45' - Goal Hristo Bonev45

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46' - Substitution Georgi Denevis substituted by Chavdar Tsvetkov46

51' - Substitution Borislav Dimitrovis substituted by Atanas Aleksandrov51

61' - Substitution Didier Sixis substituted by Olivier Rouyer

68' - Goal Pavel Panov68

87' - Missed penalty Hristo Bonev87

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Bulgaria

2 - 2

France

Bulgaria France

Team line-ups

Bulgaria

Krastev

Toshko Krastev

Bulgaria

B.date01/06/1945

Age31 years

positionGoalkeeper

Dimitrov51

Borislav Dimitrov

Bulgaria

B.date11/11/1951

Age24 years

H1m78

positionDefender

Grancharov

Nikolai Grancharov

Bulgaria

B.date20/04/1953

Age23 years

positionDefender

Vassilev

Conjo Vassilev

Bulgaria

B.date07/01/1952

Age24 years

positionLeft full-back

Tishanski

Ivan Tishanski

Bulgaria

B.date03/03/1952

Age24 years

positionMidfield

Stankov

Kiril Stankov

Bulgaria

B.date20/05/1949

Age27 years

positionMidfield

Denev46

Georgi Denev

Bulgaria

B.date18/04/1950

Age26 years

H1m76

positionOffensive Midfielder

Bonev45

Hristo Bonev

Bulgaria

B.date03/02/1947

Age29 years

H1m79

positionOffensive Midfielder

Voinov

Voin Voinov

Bulgaria

B.date07/09/1952

Age24 years

positionForward

Milanov

Kiril Milanov

Bulgaria

B.date17/09/1948

Age28 years

positionForward

Panov68

Pavel Panov

Bulgaria

B.date14/09/1950

Age26 years

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Toshko Krastev		31	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Borislav Dimitrov	51	24	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nikolai Grancharov		23	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Conjo Vassilev		24	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ivan Tishanski		24	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kiril Stankov		27	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Georgi Denev	46	26	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Hristo Bonev	45	29	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Voin Voinov		24	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kiril Milanov		28	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Pavel Panov	68	26	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26 years

Average number of matches played for the team

France

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Six61

Didier Six

France

B.date21/08/1954

Age22 years

H1m78

positionForward

Lacombe40

Bernard Lacombe

France

B.date15/08/1952

Age24 years

H1m71

positionStriker

Gallice

Jean Gallice

France

B.date13/06/1949

Age27 years

H1m72

positionForward

Platini37

Michel Platini

France

B.date21/06/1955

Age21 years

H1m78

positionPlaymaker

Synaeghel

Christian Synaeghel

France

B.date28/01/1951

Age25 years

H1m74

positionLeft Midfielder

Bathenay

Dominique Bathenay

France

B.date13/02/1954

Age22 years

H1m81

positionCentral defender

Bossis

Maxime Bossis

France

B.date26/06/1955

Age21 years

H1m86

positionVersatile Defender

Lopez

Christian Lopez

France

B.date15/03/1953

Age23 years

H1m77

positionSweeper

Janvion

Gérard Janvion

France

B.date21/08/1953

Age23 years

H1m74

positionCentral defender

Trésor

Marius Trésor

France

B.date15/01/1950

Age26 years

H1m80

positionSweeper

Baratelli

Dominique Baratelli

France

B.date26/10/1947

Age28 years

H1m77

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Dominique Baratelli		28	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Marius Trésor		26	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Christian Lopez		23	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Dominique Bathenay		22	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Maxime Bossis		21	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gérard Janvion		23	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Christian Synaeghel		25	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michel Platini	37	21	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Didier Six	61	22	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bernard Lacombe	40	24	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jean Gallice		27	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Atanas Aleksandrov	51	24	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Chavdar Tsvetkov	46	23	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	F		Olivier Rouyer	61	20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Jean Gallice

Dominique Rocheteau

OUT

Christian Synaeghel

Jean-Michel Larqué

OUT

Christian Lopez

Jean-Pierre Adams

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Hristo Mladenov

Success rate in this team:

47 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

36 %

Mladenov vs France

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 09, 1976

Mladenov vs Hidalgo

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 09, 1976

Manager

Age

Match num

Michel Hidalgo

Success rate in this team:

20 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

29 %

Hidalgo vs Bulgaria

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 09, 1976

Hidalgo vs Mladenov

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 09, 1976

Referee

Ian Foote

0 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	General total	France1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
0 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Bulgaria1 match	Season total	France1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on October 09, 1976					Latest figure on October 09, 1976

Videos

March 31, 2012

Comments

Key figures

France keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a win away from home in World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone running (since 11/12/1949). It's a record streak. The first of history

Bulgaria keeps its 3 2-2 running (since 17/08/1976). It's a record streak. The first of history

It's the first time Bernard Lacombe scores 1 goal in World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone

Read the next 17 key stats

General ranking

	1	France	1 pt	1 rd
	2	Bulgaria	1 pt	1 rd

General ranking

	1	France	1 pt	1 rd
	2	Bulgaria	1 pt	1 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DBulgaria 1-1 Germany27/04/1975

VBulgaria 5-0 Malta11/06/1975

LBulgaria 0-3 Soviet Union24/03/1976

VBulgaria 3-0 North Korea05/05/1976

VBulgaria 1-0 Romania12/05/1976

DBulgaria 2-2 Turkey22/09/1976

Overall

VJapan 0-3 Bulgaria01/02/1976

LBulgaria 0-3 Soviet Union24/03/1976

VBulgaria 3-0 North Korea05/05/1976

VBulgaria 1-0 Romania12/05/1976

DSwitzerland 2-2 Bulgaria17/08/1976

DBulgaria 2-2 Turkey22/09/1976

Current form

Away

LGermany 2-1 France13/10/1973

VPoland 0-2 France07/09/1974

LBelgium 2-1 France12/10/1974

DIceland 0-0 France25/05/1975

LHungary 1-0 France22/05/1976

DDenmark 1-1 France01/09/1976

Overall

LEast Germany 2-1 France12/10/1975

DFrance 0-0 Belgium15/11/1975

DFrance 2-2 Czechoslovakia27/03/1976

VFrance 2-0 Poland24/04/1976

LHungary 1-0 France22/05/1976

DDenmark 1-1 France01/09/1976

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	3	4
Winless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	3	4
Conceding streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	1
Winless streak	4	2
Scoring streak	1	1
Conceding streak	2	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

0	Number of games (Competition total)	0
0	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
0	Victories (Competition total)	0
0	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	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)	0
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)	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
0	Clean sheets (Competition total)	0
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	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

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

Key players

No statistics here yet

Historical head to head

Home

5 matches

4 v

0 d

1 l

8 gf

6 ga

Away

6 matches

0 v

2 d

4 l

6 gf

17 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

1 gf

0 ga

Total

12 matches

5 v

2 d

5 l

15 gf

23 ga

Historical head to head

Home

6 matches

4 v

2 d

0 l

17 gf

6 ga

Away

5 matches

1 v

0 d

4 l

6 gf

8 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

1 ga

Total

12 matches

5 v

2 d

5 l

23 gf

15 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 1	December 04, 1971
Home	2 - 1	December 04, 1971

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	March 24, 1938
Away	5 - 3	June 09, 1932

Latest head to head

December 04, 1971 - Eliminatoires Euro 1972

Bulgaria

2 - 1

France

November 10, 1971 - Eliminatoires Euro 1972

France

2 - 1

Bulgaria

April 08, 1970 - Rencontres amicales 1970

France

1 - 1

Bulgaria

October 26, 1963 - Eliminatoires Euro 1964

France

3 - 1

Bulgaria

September 29, 1963 - Eliminatoires Euro 1964

Bulgaria

1 - 0

France

Best historical scorers against France

Hristo Iliev	1 goal	1961 - 1961
Todor Diev	1 goal	1957 - 1957
Ivan Kolev	1 goal	1959 - 1959
Metody Nestorov	1 goal	1957 - 1957

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/06/1932. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Bulgaria

Jean Sécember	4 goals	1932 - 1932
Yvon Goujon	2 goals	1963 - 1963
Maryan Wisniewski	2 goals	1957 - 1960
Jean Nicolas	2 goals	1938 - 1938
Alfred Aston	2 goals	1938 - 1938
Henri Michel	1 goal	1970 - 1970

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/06/1932. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs France

Nikola Kovachev	5 matches	1957 - 1961
Ivan Kolev	5 matches	1957 - 1961
Todor Diev	4 matches	1957 - 1961
Kiril Rakarov	4 matches	1957 - 1961
Georgi Naydenov	4 matches	1959 - 1961
Ivan Dimitrov	4 matches	1959 - 1961

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/06/1932. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Bulgaria

Pierre Bernard	5 matches	1960 - 1963
Yvon Douis	4 matches	1957 - 1963
André Lerond	4 matches	1957 - 1961
Bruno Rodzik	4 matches	1960 - 1963
Jean Djorkaeff	3 matches	1970 - 1971
Roger Piantoni	3 matches	1957 - 1960