Akademija Pandev take on the visitors Lechia Gdanskin the second leg of round of 16 in UEFA Conference League qualification. First leg result: 1-4. The match will be played on Thursday, July 14th at Trening Centar Petar Miloševski (Skopje).
Pandev Academy last season showed the best result so far. "Pupils" is a young project. It began as with exactly the football academy, in 2010. But already in 2014, a full-fledged team appeared, which showed up for official tournaments. And after 3 years they rose to the top division of North Macedonia. Already behind 2 cup finals, of which the first, in 2019, ended in victory. Finally, in the last draw, the club was able to become the vice-champion of the country (however, Shkupi scored as much as 12 more). The Macedonians already have the European Cup experience. However, it is extremely negative. In 2019, Zrinjski defeated them in both meetings, and with the same score 0-3. About the same thing happened in Gdansk: 1-4 in favor of the opponent.
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Lechia is a strong team, but there are no particular achievements. The "White-Greens" have never risen above 3rd place in the Ekstraklasa. But this maximum result was repeated relatively recently, in 2019. And then the representative of Gdansk also won the cup, and a year later they again reached the final of this draw. In principle, in this context, last season can even be considered as quite good. Lechia scored 57 points, which was enough for 4th place (3 points ahead of Piast) - enough to qualify for European competition for the 3rd time in their history. Before that, there was the Europa League qualification in the summer of 2019. Then the Poles won 2-1 at home against Brondby, but in Denmark the opponent staged a 4-1 rout. This time with the same score it turned out to win. Flavio Paixau was especially good – experienced Portuguese striker had a hat-trick.
Both clubs made only sporadic appearances on the international stage. So they met for the first time a week ago. By and large, there will no longer be a fight, you can just play in the sparring format, because the Poles go further. Nothing prevents breaking the mark in "over 2.5 goals".
Prediction for the match: Over 2.5 scored goals.
