With the 1:0 away defeat in Israel, the Macedonian national team finished the EURO 2008 qualifications campaign on the 5th place in the Group E with 14 points and 4 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats after 12 played matches.
Macedonia – Croatia 2:0
Great victory for the Macedonian national football team. On almost impossible for play pitch conditions, Maznov and Naumoski scored the first Macedonian win over a Top-10 FIFA ranked country and also the first defeat for Croatia after 23 qualification matches.
Without Pandev against Croatia
Srecko Katanec, the coach of the Macedonian national football team, announced that Lazio's striker Goran Pandev definitely will miss the EURO 2008 Group E qualification matches against Croatia and Israel.
Sakiri and Jancevski back in the squad
Srecko Katanec named the list of 22 players for the upcoming EURO 2008 Group E qualifying matches against Croatia and Estonia. Veterans Artim Sakiri and Igor Jancevski are recalled in the squad.
Macedonia finally wins in Skopje
After more then 3 years and 9 qualification matches, the Macedonian national team finally won a match on the “Gradski” stadium in Skopje. The whole match was dedicated for Tose Proeski who died in car accident earlier on Tuesday.
No changes in the national team
Srecko Katanec, the coach of the Macedonian national team, named the squad for the EURO 2008 qualifying match from the Group E against Andorra. There are no big changes in the squad for the match that will be played in Skopje on 17/10/2007 at 20:00 CET.
Another big disappointment
The bad form of the Macedonian national team continues. After the defeats from Russia, Israel and Croatia, an easy win was expected against the 125th ranked national team of Estonia but with another bad performance, the Macedonian national team got only a point. After those results a resignation from the head coach is expected in
Squad changes for the Estonia match
Srecko Katanec, the coach of the national team of Macedonia was forced to make changes in the squad before the qualifying match against Estonia after the suspensions of Goran Pandev and Igor Mitreski because of the yellow cards they received on the match against Russia.
Russia 3-0 Macedonia
Late strikes from Andrei Arshavin and Aleksandr Kerzhakov eased ten-man Russia to a convincing victory over Macedonia in EURO 2008 qualifying. Russians took an early lead through V. Berezutski and dominated proceedings before having goalkeeper Gabulov sent off for a foul in the area which led to Mitreski missing a penalty. Two goals in the
Ristic out, Toleski in the National team
After calling only 18 players for the 2 important EURO 2008 qualifying matches against Russia and Estonia, the problems started to occur for the coach Srecko Katanec, so he is forced to make changes. Goce Toleski the striker from Czech FK Most is back in the team, after Stevica Ristic got injured on his last