Ludogorets with a classic against Hebar

Ludogorets recorded another win in the championship of the efbet League and moved 9 points ahead of Botev and Levski. With the success, the champions equaled Loko (Sf)'s record of 11 consecutive clean sheets since 1978. The Eagles thus had a good rehearsal ahead of next Thursday's Europa League main stage clash with Athletic Bilbao.

The match at Huvepharma Arena started with a dangerous situation for the visitors from Pazardzhik. After an attack on the left flank, the ball was centered in the penalty area, where the hosts' defense "forgot" about Nabil McNee. Hebar's goalscorer shot unprepared but missed the target behind Sergio Padt. The hosts responded almost instantly with a very good position for Deroy Duarte. After a mistake by Oleksiy Zbun, the ball fell to Duarte, who shot from the penalty area, but missed. Just a minute later, however, Duarte avenged his miss by opening the scoring in Razgrad. Rick Jhonathan received on the left flank, processed the ball and crossed in front of the visitors' goal. A Hebar defender failed to clear well and sent the leather ball into the path of Duarte. The 25-year-old shot without preparation and sent the ball past the post for 1:0. Hebar tried to respond with two good chances to Nikolay Nikolaev and McNee, but both shots were saved by Sergio Padt.

In the 34th minute, the score became 2:0 in favor of the hosts. After a short play from a corner kick, Aslack von Witry received in the penalty area and back-heeled to the free Erick Marcus on the edge of the penalty area. The striker tried a pass on the ground, but the ball ricocheted off the leg of Milen Gamakov and fooled the visitors' guard, who failed to react before the leather ball flew into the net. In the end, the goal was scored as an own goal by the Pazardzhik defender. At the end of the first half, Ludogorets scored a third goal, with which he finally killed the intrigue at Huvepharma Arena. Pedro Naressi tries a nice diagonal shot from the right that Marcio Rossa makes difficult. The goalkeeper made a clearance, then tried to catch the ball on a second attempt. However, he clashed with his teammate Milen Gamakov, and Ivaylo Chochev took advantage of the misunderstanding between the two, who headed the ball into the empty goal.

The first good opportunity to score after the break opened up for the home team. Rick Jhonathan received from the left and crossed very well to Erick Marcus. The striker shoots without delay from the edge of the penalty area, but sends the ball over the goal. The other two clean sheets for the Eagles in the second half were created by substitute Rwan Cruz, who, however, shot wide of the goal on the first occasion, and on his second opportunity the striker was wavered by the visitors' goalkeeper, who showed class, saving with one hand.