00:00Their goalkeeper, Jose Luis Chilevert, a character who takes the penalties and the free kicks
00:05and was 20-1 to score the first goal in today's game.
00:09Bulgaria's Christo Stoichkov was the joint top scorer at the last World Cup with six goals
00:13and other familiar names from the side which reached the semi-finals four years ago
00:17are midfielder Balakov and the captain Ivanov.
00:20Well, this is what happened earlier in Montpellier.
00:22David Pleat and Tony Gubber were there.
00:25This is Nenkov.
00:32A little header by Stoichkov.
00:35They've just got Tenev in the middle.
00:37Stoichkov arrives to claim possession and was he blocked?
00:40Penalty, is it?
00:41No.
00:43The referee from Kazakhstan has waved Stoichkov back onto his feet.
00:49It was a solid challenge from Sarabia.
01:06Here's Elieff, number 11.
01:08Stoichkov's in the middle.
01:14Header out was by Kamara.
01:16Stoichkov!
01:16Oh, he's in the post!
01:24Well, a clearing header by Kamara.
01:27Hit his own player and fell really invitingly for Stoichkov.
01:31Well, I don't think he really got hold of it as well as he would have liked.
01:34There was a two-bounce before it hit the post.
01:38Schellevert certainly was nowhere near it, never moved his feet at all.
01:43Well, five minutes to go to half-time of what's been, in truth, a fairly lacklustre match between Paraguay and
01:50Bulgaria.
01:50But maybe something spectacular here from number three, Ivanov.
01:54Oh, well taken and a good save, but it's not cleared yet.
02:01Well, they've had five free kicks to practice, Bulgaria.
02:04That's the furthest from goal, and that's the best that they've produced.
02:08And maybe six inches or a foot further away from Schellevert, and that would have been the opening goal.
02:13Oh, this is Petkoff.
02:21Surrendering possession to Hakuna, and maybe Paraguay could be dangerous on the break.
02:26Oh, there's a chance here for Cardoza, number nine.
02:32It's the best chance of the half.
02:36And Cardoza, who plays his football with Toluca in Mexico, has only scored one international goal in the last two
02:43years, and that was from a penalty.
02:45But his form for his club has kept him in the international side, and he's squandered Paraguay's best chance.
02:53Is this Kitschev?
02:56Aimed at Stoichkov.
02:58Oh, he's taken that nicely on his chest.
03:00Is this the magic that we've waited for?
03:02Peneff puts it over the bar.
03:05But in that one little moment, all the qualities of Stoichkov were on show, took it magnificently on his chest.
03:13Ten out of ten there, great diagonal ball, and the real calm of a great player.
03:24Here's Benitez, popular figure.
03:28Well, that's going to be a free kick for the foul by Ivanov on Campos.
03:34And it's a yellow card.
03:37And here we've got some excitement.
03:40Have we got the goalkeeper coming up for a free kick?
03:45Well, the crowd in Montpellier are buzzing at the realisation that Paraguay's goalkeeper, Chiliver, has indeed come out of his
03:54goal to take this free kick for Paraguay.
03:58A real eccentric character.
04:01He's got a blistering shot on him, and that was going to the top corner.
04:07Well saved by Dravko, but what a superbly struck free kick.
04:11Well, Tony, it was worth coming.
04:20Just cost a Dino.
04:28Here's Nankov.
04:31Stoichkov.
04:32Oh, and he's there.
04:33Well, the keeper came.
04:35The defender was there.
04:39Stoichkov on the volley into what would have been an empty net.
04:44Chiliver a long way off his line.
04:48Headed up by Kostadinov.
04:51Back by Hakuna to his goalkeeper.
04:55And Chiliver once more venturing out of his penalty area.
05:00Oh, here's Benitez.
05:02It wouldn't drop for him.
05:09Yegros just on as a substitute.
05:16Tremendous kick from Chiliver.
05:18The substitute flicking it on.
05:21And there's our little man, the little lively campaigner in this second half.
05:25Almost scoring a goal.
05:28Volimirov.
05:37That's a free kick.
05:40That's a yellow card.
05:44Yankov, it's his second yellow card.
05:47It's the first red card.
05:50The referee from Saudi Arabia,
05:53Abdul Rahman Al-Zid,
05:56flourishes a second yellow.
06:07Dropped.
06:11Well, there was no foul.
06:14It was taken quickly.
06:19By Canizia.
06:21That would have been an injury time goal.
06:23U-N-T, O-N-T, U-N-T.
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