| 10th September 2008, 20.30 CET | |||
 MACEDONIA 1:2 NETHERLANDS  |
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| HT 0:0 | |||
| Goals: 77′ (pen) Goran Pandev – 46′ John Heittinga, 60′ Rafael van der Vaart | |||
| Stadium: Gradski in Skopje |
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| Attendance: 13.000 | |||
| MKD | NED | ||
| 1. | Petar Miloshevski (GK) | 1. | Maarten Stekelenburg (GK)  76′ |
| 2. | Nikolche Noveski | 2. | John Heitinga |
| 4. | Goce Sedloski (C) | 3. | André Ooijer  28′ |
| 5. | Igor Mitreski | 4. | Joris Mathijsen |
| 7. | Vlatko Grozdanoski 74′ |
5. | Giovanni van Bronckhorst (C) |
| 8. | Veliche Shumulikoski | 6. | Mark van Bommel |
| 9. | Goran Maznov 62′ |
7. | Robin van Persie 15′ 70′ |
| 10. | Goran Pandev | 8. | Nigel de Jong |
| 11. | Ilcho Naumoski 20′ |
9. | Klaas-Jan Huntelaar |
| 14. | Vlade Lazarevski 58′ |
10. | Rafael van der Vaart 75′ |
| 16. | Vancho Trajanov 83′ |
11. | Arjen Robben 82′ |
| Substitutes: | |||
| 3. | Robert Petrov  58′ |
12. | Khalid Boulahrouz 28′ |
| 6. | Darko Tasevski 62′ |
13. | Ryan Babel |
| 12. | Tome Pachovski (GK) | 14. | Dirk Kuijt 70′ |
| 13. | Artim Polozhani | 15. | Tim de Cler |
| 15. | Ertan Demiri | 16. | Henk Timmer (GK) |
| 17. | Boban Grncharov | 17. | Ibrahim Afellay 82′ |
| 18. | Stevica Ristikj 83′ 87′ |
18. | Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink |
| Coaches: | |||
Srečko Katanec  |
Lambertus “Bert” van Marwijk |
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| Officials: | |||
Referee: Grzegorz Gilewski  |
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| Assistants: Maciej Wierzbowski, Rafał Rostkowski |
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| Fourth official: Hubert Siejewicz |
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