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Malta vs North Macedonia match preview
After picking up a famous point on Saturday night, can North Macedonia now back it up with a victory in Ta’ Qali?
At the weekend, the Lynxes held Italy to a 1-1 draw at Toše Proeski Arena, courtesy of Enis Bardhi’s stunning free-kick, coming just nine minutes from time.
This was a brilliant result for Blagoja Milevski’s team, especially given that they suffered back-to-back crushing defeats in June.
First, they lost 3-2 to Ukraine, despite actually leading 2-0 in Skopje with less than half an hour to play, before being smashed 7-0 at Old Trafford by England, their biggest defeat of all-time.
Now, given that North Macedonia’s remaining fixtures are Ukraine (A), Italy (A) and then England (H), if they harbour any hopes of gatecrashing the top two spots, this is surely must win.
This seems the most-likely outcome, given that Malta are Group C’s whipping boys, yet to get off the mark.
Last Wednesday, Michele Marcolini’s men did enjoy a morale-boosting friendly victory over fellow-minnows Gibraltar at home, with Joseph Mbong the only scorer, bagging just his second international goal.
In competitive fixtures though, Malta have won only three of their last 19 outings, these wins coming over Cyprus and San Marino.
Thus, an away win seems likely at Grawnd Nazzjonali.
Malta team news
Michele Marcolini has had almost a week to prepare for this fixture, hoping to make this marginally gain count.
English-born striker Jodi Jones of Notts County could lead the attack, searching for his first international goal.
North Macedonia team news
Aberdeen’s Bojan Miovski got the nod up front against Italy, chosen over Aleksandar Trajkovski or Ilija Nestorovski, so will he keep his place?
Darko Churlinov, Valon Ethemi and Marjan Radeski are all out injured, so could Davor Zdravkovski of Motherwell feature, dreaming of making his senior international debut?
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