North Macedonia take on the visitors Finland in a friendly international match. The match will be played on Thursday, November 17th.
North Macedonia not so long ago was able to achieve a historic breakthrough. Still, the main local star and football legend, Goran Pandev, waited until he led the national team to the Euro matches. True, then the pass was taken through a new quota of the Nations League, and even directly at the championship it was not possible to catch points even once. It is noteworthy that later, without the “tied up” veteran scorer, the Macedonians were able to take the “real” 2nd place in qualifying for the World Cup. Moreover, in March, on the road, the underdog managed to win against Italy. But Portugal has put everything in its place, and it is them who are going to Qatar. Against this background, the game in the League of Nations turned out to be disappointing: 6 out of 7 of their points were taken there with the most modest Gibraltar, and so there was only 1 point in 2 matches with Bulgaria and a defeat in both meetings with Georgia.
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Finland was able to reach its peak in parallel with the rise of North Macedonia. True, Teemu Pukki and company made their way to the Euro directly, from 2nd place in their group. The Scandinavians also tried to show something similar as part of the selection for the World Cup. But there, after all, Ukraine won the dispute for the 2nd place. This year there were good results of Markku Kanerva's wards in the League of Nations. They were able to get ahead of both Romania and Montenegro by 1 point. True, Bosnia was able to collect 3 points more, and it was them who won the group, and with it the promotion to division A. In general, Suomi is now preparing for a clearly “control camp”, and some leaders have not been called up, including and the main striking force is Pukki (as well as Schuller, Lam, Uronen). But Kanerva has half a dozen potential debutants on the list, and the backbone has survived in the form of Hradecki, Kamar, Lod and Pohyanpalo. So let's see in what combination the Finns will appear on the field in Skopje.
A total of 4 head-to-heads were played. First, North Macedonia won, then Finland was twice better, and in the spring of 2018, a friendly match featured no goals scored at all. Bookmakers give a noticeable advantage to North Macedonia, who plays at home. But both it and Finland are traditionally pragmatic.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 scored goals.
