The first of the two friendly matches between Macedonia and Israel ended with a 2:1 win for the guests.

The match was originally scheduled to take place at the Boris Trajkovski stadium, but got moved at FFM’s training center.

After a goalless first half it was the young Macedonians who took the lead through Dimoski just seven minutes after the break. In the 60th minute the Israelis equalized through Hleiihil, while nineteen minutes from time Cohen scored the game winning goal.

Petar Miloshevski training center in Skopje
Macedonia – Israel 1:2 (0:0)
Goals: 52′ Bojan Dimoski – 60′ Abdullah Hleiihil, 71′ Bar Cohen
Macedonia: 1. Matej Andov; 2. George Jankulov, 3. Bojan Dimoski (90’+1 13. Andjelo Nikolovski), 6. Aleksandar Gjurkovski, 7. Kire Trpchevski (C) (46′ 9. David Toshevski), 8. Agon Elezi, 10. Muharem Suhejlj (81′ 18. Metodi Maksimov), 11. Kushtrim Tairi (74′ 16. Vlada Novevski), 15. Vane Tasevski (79′ 5. Bozhidar Mitrevski), 17. Dimitar Todorovski (88′ 20. Ramin Alii), 19. Arbi Vosha (68′ 4. Ivan Nikolov).
Israel: 1. Omer Yaacov Nir On; 2. Guy Mizrahi (71′ 5. Rony Laufer), 3. Nir David Drori (66′ 17. Huy Hakim), 4. Dan Lugassy (C), 7. Ido Shahar, 8. Osher Davida (66′ 15. Abdulla Abu Abed), 9. Abdullah Hleiihil (66′ 19. Ravve Assayag), 10. Ibrahim Jauabra (66′ 12. Teshager Degu), 11. Ofek Ovadia (66′ 14. Omri Ram), 13. Bar Cohen, 20. Tom Achi Mordechay (64′ 16. Shalom Shalev Avitan).
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Referee: Marjan Mladenovski

The second match will be played on Thursday at 17.00 CET, but this time at the Boris Trajkovski stadium.

The Israeli team before kick-off; photo: IFA