Problems for both national teams just a day before the play-off for reaching the EURO.

photo by : Bardhi during yesterday’s training

Midfielder Enis Bardhi was forced to miss the flight for Tbilisi this morning as he got a spine injury and is definitely unavailable for playing. There was no time for a new player to be summoned so Macedonia headed to Georgia with a problem in the midfield.

Additional problem is the positive test for COVID-19 od defender Kire Ristevski and attacker Krte Velkoski. Ristevski was positive previously and the hopes were that he would recover, but that did not happen. Velkoski is a deep reserve so he won’t be missed.

On the other hand, Georgia lost two of it’s best players. 19-year-old winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who scored the goal in Skopje last month, and Levan Shengelia, another winger, both tested positive for COVID-19 and were immediately put into self-isolation, according to the UEFA protocol.