League Play-Off

Peturch Stadion
Spectators: 37 (Terracing: 29, Seating: 8, VIP seats: 0) FC TROYAN's Matey Ilev started the match with a crisp pass. The crowd had been anticipating this game for weeks and the excitement in the stadium was easily visible. Simeon Voynov's late challenge caught a FC TROYAN's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Simeon Voynov helped the player get up and apologised. Simeon Voynov kicked well hit freekick during the 3rd minute of the match. Mladen Balevski scored 0-1 in the 4th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Slavyan Gorolov, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Slavyan Gorolov took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Matey Ilev, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Mladen Balevski in the 10th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Slavyan Gorolov saved FC Peturch from getting behind. Slavyan Gorolov came out of the goal in the 11th minute to try and stop a shot by FC TROYAN's Emil Manovski. But to his dismay, Emil Manovski quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 0-2. With a couple of smart ball manuevers Matey Ilev in the 16th managed to get into a good position. With a left leg Slavyan Gorolov saved FC Peturch from getting behind. FC Peturch's Slavyan Gorolov played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Niki Zhdrakov in the 17th minute of play. In the 24thth minute of the game Mladen Balevski who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but FC Peturch's Slavyan Gorolov was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. The referee blew the whistle for a penalty in the 26th minute of the game. One of FC Peturch:s players had nearly got his shirt torn off by an opponent while getting free in front of FC TROYAN:s goal. Slavyan Gorolov went to the wrong direction when Dimcho Kerelezov was taking care of the penalty kick which however missed the goal. Tzvetan Pirinchev showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Subin Bilyarski in the 29th minute of the match. Peycho Topchev lost his temper 29 minutes into the game and shoved another player to the ground. He was immediately shown a red card. The referee blew the whistle for a penalty in the 29th minute of the game. One of FC TROYAN:s players had nearly got his shirt torn off by an opponent while getting free in front of FC Peturch:s goal. The goalkeeper, Tzvetan Pirinchev, was totally fooled by FC Peturch's Yani Radichkov, who 31 minutes into the game made a penalty shot that went in on the goalkeeper's left side. 38 minutes into the match, Matey Ilev had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Slavyan Gorolov. FC Peturch's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Matey Ilev was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 1-4. When FC TROYAN's Matey Ilev in the 44th minute got a chance for a shot 44th didn't hesitate and placed the ball to the right of the goalie. A beautiful save bye FC Peturch's goalie prevented a goal. When the match had gone on for 46 minutes, Mladen Balevski put it in 1-5 from a short distance just to the right of Slavyan Gorolov.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Naycho Ferdov made a kick off. 58 minutes into the game, FC TROYAN's Mladen Balevski nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Slavyan Gorolov made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 1-8. Matey Ilev blasted a shot towards the goal in the 66th minute, but the shot hit the top of the crossbar and went out without Slavyan Gorolov having to make a save. In the 68th minute, Matey Ilev got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. The audience was convinced that Mladen Balevski's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Slavyan Gorolov was relentless in the 69th minute of the game. 71 minutes into the game, Mladen Balevski lined in a short shot 1-10 behind a frustrated Slavyan Gorolov. Matey Ilev succeeded in the game's 75th minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 1-11. In the 79th minute Matey Ilev clashed with another player. He fell to the ground and was in great pain. It was obvious that he couldn't finish the game. Spiro Parashkevov's late challenge caught a FC TROYAN's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Spiro Parashkevov helped the player get up and apologised. FC TROYAN's Trayan Bozhov was substituted for Matey Ilev. In the 81st match minute, FC Peturch was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Spiro Parashkevov to maneuver through the defense. In the 83rdth minute of the game Trayan Bozhov who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but FC Peturch's Slavyan Gorolov was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Mladen Balevski succeeded in the game's 87th minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 1-12. Mladen Balevski received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Slavyan Gorolov came out and tried to block the shot, but Mladen Balevski slotted it home off the left post making it 1-13 in the 91st minute. Mladen Balevski did some fancy footwork in front of goal and succeeded to deceive the defenders so he could slam the ball in 1-14 to the left of a surprised Slavyan Gorolov 95 minutes into the match. FC TROYAN's players went to the stands to thank the travelling support. The fan's backing had helped spurr the team on to a fine performance that won them the match.