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Florin Orban, 20.07.2017, 12:48
Romanian striker Claudiu Keşeru was the hero of the match his team, Ludogoreţ Razgrad, played in the Champions League preliminaries, more precisely in the second leg of round 2. Bulgaria’s champions defeated, on home ground, 4-1, in a return match, the Lithuanian team Zalgiris. In the first match, the Lithuanians had defeated the Bulgarian team 2-1. Keşeru scored twice in the 56 and 74 minutes, his second goal being decisive for his team’s qualification. On 75 minutes the Romanian striker received a yellow card and was replaced on 88 minutes. The other Romanian playing for Ludogoreţ Razgrad, fullback Cosmin Moţi, played for the whole match, although he also received a yellow card on minutes 45.
In the 3rd round of the Champions League’s preliminaries, Ludogoreţ Razgrad will take on the Israeli team Hapoel Beer-Sheva, which defeated, in the second round, Hungary’s champions, Honved Budapest. The Bulgarian team runs as favorite. If they fail to advance to the Champions League’s groups, Ludogoreţ Razgrad might dismiss coach Gheorghi Dermengiev. In this case, Romanian Mircea Lucescu is the favorite coach to take over the Razgrad club.
The ProSport sports paper quotes the web page topsport.bg as saying that the Bulgarian team’s officials placed Mircea Lucescu first in the top of possible replacements for Dermengiev. After leaving Zenit Sankt Petersburg, Lucescu is now free of any commitment. The Turkish club Galatasaray is also interested in Mircea Lucescu, with whom they won the 2000 Europe’s Supercup, when the Turkish team defeated Real Madrid.
