00:08Icon replacing Gaspar Cerdin,
00:11Ronaldo out front has five goals in the ten games he's played for the club
00:14already this season, Zinni scored the equaliser against Crete in that Super
00:21Cup game, late on to take it two penalties which ultimately Ike lost.
00:30Just an enormous amount at stake and there are some players like Luka Jovic
00:37who've experienced all this before and there are some, Stuart Robson, who won't
00:41have done. Absolutely, Jovic an experienced player, good goal scorer, he'll be the
00:47danger man for Ike. He's up against two very good centre-halves, Dimitrov,
00:54Seraphimov, a good understanding those two centre-backs.
01:00Well, Thomas Strakosha hugely experienced.
01:10It is, as the old cliche goes, a bit of a cauldron. And it is the side from Athens, Ike
01:19who get us
01:19underway kicking from left to right in the first half in their yellow and black striped jerseys
01:25against Levski. Been too pleased about Olympiakos doing that in their ground. Lofa Maia with the forward
01:33ball and it's hooked and it's clipped the bar Jovic. Well, that's what he's about. Dimitrov should have got a
01:44little bit tighter.
01:46He hit it all nice and early. Kolki was well beaten. Best chance of the game so far.
01:53Yeah, just smudging the top of that Levski crossbar. Mubarak here. Serginho back to Mubarak.
02:04First time it's Serginho that goes in between the two centre-backs to try and get on the ball.
02:13And here's the chance for Okaflex. Referee took a look at that challenge. Mubarak's shot is smothered by Strakosha.
02:22Serginho went in between the two centre-halves to get on the ball and make things happen. He certainly did
02:25that.
02:26What a good ball it is to the right-back making his forward run. A couple of good challenges.
02:33Not quite enough on it from Mubarak, but that's better. When they've looked dangerous is when
02:38they've got the ball forward that little bit quicker. Those big diagonals out to the right-hand side.
02:45Yeah, we've seen one here from Serafinov and then that one from Serginho.
02:50Dimitrov has been a little bit more conservative, as Stuart has said in the first half so far, but
02:59it's been a really enjoyable game this actually. Mubarak. Okaflex has just taken the four-back in.
03:06Now Okaflex has gone to the centre-forward position, which is leaving space for Aldair to
03:10break forward down that right-hand side when they hit the big diagonal.
03:14And we're in the last minute of it, at least the last minute of regulation time.
03:22Svetoslav Vutsov with the long ball downfield towards Okaflex, beaten in the air by Relvas.
03:29Felipe Relvas to Strakosha.
03:43Just had to hurry or at least be sure-footed.
03:48Ball did just bobble in front of him.
03:51It did a little bit.
03:56He's been a good goalkeeper for many years now.
04:00More than 200 games for Lazio.
04:07And there is no added time at the end of the first half at all.
04:12It's been a really competitive, very even first 45 minutes that between Levski-Sofia and Ike-Athens.
04:26Well, the decibel levels haven't dropped one iota.
04:31As Levski try and build the first attack of the second half.
04:39He is Aldair Dimitrov.
04:51A ball around the corner from Maicon.
05:03He's been a threat in the first half, Aldair here, down his right-hand side.
05:07Once again, he's found a bit of space.
05:09A couple of great deft touches, actually.
05:13Serginho, skipping away from one challenge, driving the cross straight into Pilo, however.
05:23I can't be surprised if we see Varga on the pitch fairly soon for, like, painting too much of Zinni
05:29as a sender forward.
05:30Yeah.
05:34Pilo.
05:36Pilo's crossed not bad, actually.
05:38Came off the wrong bit of the head of Serafinov.
05:43Pilo.
05:47Pilo.
05:48Nakudi.
05:51Kairanen.
06:00Koita.
06:04The bobbler always heading wide, in all honesty, from Raz van Marijn, and I think that he's untroubled.
06:10Seraf's touch is excellent here, because he's put under a bit of pressure by Koita, but he just gets his
06:14touch in between the two defenders.
06:16It's been the case on several occasions now, the shooting from distance hasn't been good for either team.
06:21Good block back by the midfielder.
06:26Game is stretching a little bit. Maicon with a really great run here. Maicon goes on and on and draws
06:33the save from a stretching.
06:37Good pace, good angle, stays on his feet after that challenge.
06:42It was quite dynamic, wasn't it, from the midfield player Maicon?
06:46Yeah.
06:48A left back, really, by Trey.
06:51Aldair here.
06:54Ocoflex.
06:55And Serginho drove it, Rinaldo tried to redirect it.
07:01Just feel that Levski are pushing now.
07:13Oh, Mubarak didn't get a shout, and Zinni took it away from him.
07:18That's well won back. Dimitrov is going to have a go here, it's not bad.
07:23Well held, Strakosha.
07:26Dimitrov just wanted a bit more energy and a bit more pace in the team.
07:33Very good technically, but not a great athlete.
07:37And Zinni with the shooting chance.
07:40Use the overlapping run.
07:42Here's his pace to get away from the first challenge.
07:46Left-foot shot.
07:47The play was good.
07:49Good pace.
07:50Drive it into the space, then didn't get his shot away with any sort of conviction.
07:55Rinaldo fairly dispossessed by the outstretched left boot of Kahn Kairinen.
08:03Signed in the summer transfer window, the Finnish international from Sparta, Prague.
08:13Zinni forward.
08:15Comes back to Zinni off the defender's toe.
08:19And he goes for the near post.
08:21It took a deflection on its way.
08:22Since the change, he's come to life.
08:24It's not a particularly good effort.
08:27Lazarus Rotter with this throw-in for Eich.
08:32The little flick on and the foul would not have been given, I think.
08:38Petros Mantelos, had he controlled that and turned Manik on a shot away.
08:41Forward from Felipe Relvas.
08:44Would have been offside.
08:45And the whistle has gone, I think, for the end of this first lead.
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