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Soccer: Ghazaryan and Pizzelli See Red as Armenia Falls to Defeat in Sofia
Armenia suffered a 1:0 defeat at the hands of Bulgaria at the Vassil Levski Stadium in Sofia on Tues., Sept. 11. A solitary strike on the stroke of half time from Stanislav Manolev was enough to secure the victory for Bulgaria, which completed its pair of home fixtures with four points following an opening day draw versus Italy.
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It was evident that Bulgairs game plan (if you even want to call it that) was to foul Henrik, Movsisyan, and Araz the entire game. Any chance they got to hit one of our players they took. With that in mind, I still fell like we had the chance to win or at least tie. On the ball and as a team we were better. it is just that they were way to physical. We need to match other teams physicality without getting red cards. I think it is a little bit ironic that we had more bookings that the Bulgarian side. But hey thats soccer. We have to play so weel that we can win even if the ref is trying to deicide the game. Other that that, I do feel like me need more size. We dont have anyone who can score off a header becuase we are too short. And non of our defenders can properly deend a corner becuase they are all mostly shorter than international attackers.
I hope we pick it up for the next game. Maybe we can bring in Antonio Joaquin Boghossian. He would make us very dangerous!
We also need to replace Sargis Hovsepyan. He needs to realize that he is almost 40! Not only is he hindering the team, he is hindering the develpoment of another young defender. I mean tht goal by bulgaria was partly his fault. How can you let someone make a cross with the outside of their right leg? I understand that he is the captain, but he already had the most caps ever. But he needs to be a sub that is there to offer a vererans presense to these young guns!
Sargis Hovsepyan needs to retire Armenia has so many better younger defender including the Brazilian Alex. They played ugly and deserved to loose but the ref let this game get out of control so he is partly to blame but the Armenians should have done better and are a better team than Bulgaria. Joaquin bogosyan needs to be on this team! He is 6 5 and would be a great weapon on set pieces.