After Pandev and Ibraimi withdrew, Vardar’s Filip Ivanovski is another name that was added to the squad for the upcoming qualifiers.
Goran Pandev and Agim Ibraimi withdrew from the squad for Macedonia’s upcoming qualifying matches against Armenia and Slovakia. Those two losses left Macedonia very thin in the attacking department. Mario Gjurovski was called up yesterday, while Filip Ivanovski from Vardar was added today to improve competition up front. Gjurovski is a midfielder so Toshack needed another striker since Macedonia was down to only two forwards in Ivan Trickovski and Mirko Ivanovski. Therefore, he decided to summon Ivanovski who has been in good form for Vardar this season.