The national futsal team suffered its fifth defeat in a match from Group 10 of the European Championship qualifiers. The national team lost to France 0:8, BTA reports. Even before the break, the French, who are fourth in the world, were leading 4:0, and in the second half they scored four more goals.
Mamadou Kone and Inza Kone scored two goals each for the winners, while Mamadou Kone (b.r. - another football player with the same name), captain Suhruddin Muehail, Steve Bendale and Michael De Sa Andrade scored the remaining goals.
The French remain at the top of the standings with 5 wins from five matches. First place and direct qualification will be decided in their last match as guests of Georgia, which has four wins and one defeat. Bulgaria remains at the bottom of the standings with no points and a goal difference of 4:36. In the first match in Samokov, France defeated the Bulgarian formation with a heavy 11:0.
The Bulgarian coach Dilyan Koychev made a lot of changes, leaving only six players from the team that played the previous matches. Two of the planned starters, Vladimir Bakharov and Tsvetelin Anzhelov, did not travel to Lyon and Saint-Etienne due to injuries.
The total superiority of the home team is also proven by the statistics, as a total of 76 shots were taken at the Bulgarian goalkeepers Milen Kirov and Hristo Pavlov. The French also took 19 corner kicks, against only two from the Bulgarian team.
By the 15th minute, the score had swelled to 3:0, and at the end of the first half, Mamadou Toure scored his second goal. The hosts scored the fifth goal early in the second half, but the last three goals came in the final three and a half minutes.
Bulgaria now has its last group match against Kosovo on Tuesday in Plovdiv, where our team will try to earn its first points. The Kosovars lost 1:3 to Georgia as hosts and have only three points from their home win over Bulgaria in December.