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Northern Ireland 0-1 Bulgaria - February 06, 2008 / Friendlies 2008

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Friendlies 2008 - Europe

Windsor Park - Belfast - Northern Ireland

February 06, 2008

11 000

0 - 1

Bulgaria

38'

Jonny Evans (o.g)

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38' - Own goal Jonny Evans

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46' - Substitution Jonny Evansis substituted by Chris Baird photo Stephen Craigan

46' - Substitution George McCartneyis substituted by Stephen Craigan photo Steven Davis

46' - Substitution Damien Johnsonis substituted by Steven Davis46

46' - Substitution Georgi Petkovis substituted by Dimitar Ivankov photo Nikolay Dimitrov

46' - Substitution Todor Yanchevis substituted by Nikolay Dimitrov

60' - Substitution Kyle Laffertyis substituted by Martin Paterson60

66' - Substitution Aleksander Tunchevis substituted by Assen Karaslavov photo Ivelin Popov

66' - Substitution Zdravko Lazarovis substituted by Ivelin Popov

73' - Substitution Mihail Venkovis substituted by Petar Zanev

78' - Substitution Keith Gillespieis substituted by Peter Thompson78

82' - Substitution Dimitar Berbatovis substituted by Valeri Domovchiyski

83' - Substitution Maik Tayloris substituted by Alan Mannus83

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Northern Ireland

0 - 1

Bulgaria

Northern Ireland Bulgaria

Team line-ups

Northern Ireland

Taylor83

Maik Taylor

Northern Ireland

B.date04/09/1971

Age36 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Evans3846

Jonny Evans

Northern Ireland

B.date03/01/1988

Age20 years

H1m87

positionLeft central defender

Hughes

Aaron Hughes

Northern Ireland

B.date08/11/1979

Age28 years

H1m83

positionRight central defender

McAuley

Gareth McAuley

Northern Ireland

B.date05/12/1979

Age28 years

H1m91

positionRight central defender

McCartney46

George McCartney

Northern Ireland

B.date29/04/1981

Age26 years

H1m83

positionLeft full-back

Johnson46

Damien Johnson

Northern Ireland

B.date18/11/1978

Age29 years

H1m76

positionRight central midfielder

Clingan

Sammy Clingan

Northern Ireland

B.date13/01/1984

Age24 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

Gillespie78

Keith Gillespie

Northern Ireland

B.date18/02/1975

Age32 years

H1m77

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Brunt

Chris Brunt

Northern Ireland

B.date14/12/1984

Age23 years

H1m87

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Lafferty60

Kyle Lafferty

Northern Ireland

B.date16/09/1987

Age20 years

H1m93

positionStriker

Healy

David Healy

Northern Ireland

B.date05/08/1979

Age28 years

H1m73

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Maik Taylor	83	36	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jonny Evans	3846	20	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Aaron Hughes		28	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gareth McAuley		28	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	George McCartney	46	26	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Damien Johnson	46	29	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sammy Clingan		24	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Keith Gillespie	78	32	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Chris Brunt		23	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Kyle Lafferty	60	20	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	David Healy		28	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Bulgaria

Petkov46

Georgi Petkov

Bulgaria

B.date14/03/1976

Age31 years

H1m87

positionGoalkeeper

Tunchev66

Aleksander Tunchev

Bulgaria

B.date10/07/1981

Age26 years

H1m88

positionLeft central defender

Tomasic

Igor Tomasic

Bulgaria

B.date14/12/1976

Age31 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Venkov73

Mihail Venkov

Bulgaria

B.date28/07/1983

Age24 years

H1m81

positionLeft full-back

Milanov

Zhivko Milanov

Bulgaria

B.date15/07/1984

Age23 years

H1m74

positionRight full-back

Angelov

Stanislav Angelov

Bulgaria

B.date12/04/1978

Age29 years

H1m79

positionDefensive Midfielder

Yanchev46

Todor Yanchev

Bulgaria

B.date19/05/1976

Age31 years

H1m80

positionMidfield

Georgiev

Blagoy Georgiev

Bulgaria

B.date21/12/1981

Age26 years

H1m85

positionCentre Midfield

Petrov

Martin Petrov

Bulgaria

B.date15/01/1979

Age29 years

H1m80

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Lazarov66

Zdravko Lazarov

Bulgaria

B.date20/02/1976

Age31 years

H1m78

positionStriker

Berbatov82

Dimitar Berbatov

Bulgaria

B.date30/01/1981

Age27 years

H1m88

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Georgi Petkov	46	31	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Aleksander Tunchev	66	26	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Igor Tomasic		31	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mihail Venkov	73	24	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Zhivko Milanov		23	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Stanislav Angelov		29	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Todor Yanchev	46	31	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Blagoy Georgiev		26	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Martin Petrov		29	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Zdravko Lazarov	66	31	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dimitar Berbatov	82	27	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Alan Mannus	83	25	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stephen Craigan	46	31	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Chris Baird	46	25	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steven Davis	46	23	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Peter Thompson	78	23	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Martin Paterson	60	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Dimitar Ivankov	46	32	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Assen Karaslavov	66	27	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Petar Zanev	73	22	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nikolay Dimitrov	46	20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ivelin Popov	66	20	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Valeri Domovchiyski	82	21	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

George McCartney

Chris Baird

OUT

Jonny Evans

Stephen Craigan

OUT

Keith Gillespie

Steven Davis

OUT

Kyle Lafferty

Warren Feeney

OUT

Damien Johnson

Ivan Sproule

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Todor Yanchev

Stilian Petrov

OUT

Georgi Petkov

Dimitar Ivankov

OUT

Zdravko Lazarov

Hristo Yovov

OUT

Mihail Venkov

Velizar Dimitrov

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Nigel Worthington

Success rate in this team:

29 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Worthington vs Bulgaria

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on February 06, 2008

Worthington vs Markov

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on February 06, 2008

Manager

Age

Match num

Plamen Markov

Success rate in this team:

50 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Markov vs Northern Ireland

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on February 06, 2008

Markov vs Worthington

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on February 06, 2008

Referee

Douglas McDonald

0 victory	0 draw	2 losses	Northern Ireland2 matches	General total	Bulgaria1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Northern Ireland1 match	Season total	Bulgaria1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on February 06, 2008					Latest figure on February 06, 2008

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Key figures

The last time Bulgaria has ended with the score 1-0 in Friendlies, It was on the 01/03/2006 (vs )

It's the first time in his career that Jonny Evans scores an own goal %comp with Northern Ireland

Bulgaria keeps its 5 consecutive matches without a draw in Friendlies running (since 15/11/2006). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 20/11/2002-18/02/2004 time period (6 matches).

Read the next 10 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VNorthern Ireland 3-2 Spain06/09/2006

VNorthern Ireland 1-0 Latvia11/10/2006

DNorthern Ireland 0-0 Wales06/02/2007

VNorthern Ireland 2-1 Sweden28/03/2007

VNorthern Ireland 3-1 Liechtenstein22/08/2007

VNorthern Ireland 2-1 Denmark17/11/2007

Overall

VNorthern Ireland 3-1 Liechtenstein22/08/2007

LLatvia 1-0 Northern Ireland08/09/2007

LIceland 2-1 Northern Ireland12/09/2007

DSweden 1-1 Northern Ireland17/10/2007

VNorthern Ireland 2-1 Denmark17/11/2007

LSpain 1-0 Northern Ireland21/11/2007

Current form

Away

LSlovakia 3-1 Bulgaria15/11/2006

VCyprus 0-3 Bulgaria07/02/2007

VBelarus 0-2 Bulgaria02/06/2007

LNetherlands 2-0 Bulgaria08/09/2007

DAlbania 1-1 Bulgaria17/10/2007

VSlovenia 0-2 Bulgaria21/11/2007

Overall

LBulgaria 0-1 Wales22/08/2007

LNetherlands 2-0 Bulgaria08/09/2007

VBulgaria 3-0 Luxembourg12/09/2007

DAlbania 1-1 Bulgaria17/10/2007

VBulgaria 1-0 Romania17/11/2007

VSlovenia 0-2 Bulgaria21/11/2007

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	6	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	3	2
Scoring streak	3	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	3	8

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	2	4
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	2	4
Invincibility streak	1	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

2 matches

1 v

0 d

1 l

2 gf

1 ga

Away

3 matches

1 v

0 d

2 l

5 gf

7 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Total

6 matches

2 v

1 d

3 l

7 gf

8 ga

Historical head to head

Home

3 matches

2 v

0 d

1 l

7 gf

5 ga

Away

2 matches

1 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

2 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Total

6 matches

3 v

1 d

2 l

8 gf

7 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	May 02, 1979
Home	2 - 0	May 02, 1979

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	October 18, 1972
Away	1 - 0	June 02, 2001

Latest head to head

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

May 02, 1979 - Eliminatoires Euro 1980

Northern Ireland

2 - 0

Bulgaria

November 29, 1978 - Eliminatoires Euro 1980

Bulgaria

0 - 2

Northern Ireland logo Northern Ireland

September 26, 1973 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 1974

Northern Ireland

0 - 0

Bulgaria

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
David Healy	1 goal	2001 - 2001
William Caskey	1 goal	1978 - 1978

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 Northern Ireland

Martin Petrov	2 goals	2001 - 2001
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.

Players with most games played vs Bulgaria

Bryan Hamilton	4 matches	1972 - 1979
Pat Jennings	3 matches	1972 - 1979
Sammy Nelson	3 matches	1972 - 1979
Martin O'Neill	3 matches	1973 - 1979
Damien Johnson	2 matches	2001 - 2001
David McCreery	2 matches	1978 - 1979

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 Northern Ireland

Radostin Kishishev	2 matches	2001 - 2001
Krassimir Chomakov	2 matches	2001 - 2001
Marian Hristov	2 matches	2001 - 2001
Milen Petkov	2 matches	2001 - 2001
Krasimir Balakov	2 matches	2001 - 2001
Martin Petrov	2 matches	2001 - 2001