No surprises for the match favourites this round. Shkendija recorded the biggest win, Vardar, Sileks and Shkupi triumphed with lone goals, while Rabotnichki had to defend the lead with a man down.
Leaders Vardar visited the only team that managed to defeat them this season, Turnovo. Thanks to a lone goal by Armenian national team player Hambardzumyan, the red&black team won the 3 points.
After a goalless first half title challengers Shkendija eventually beat Bregalnica. The hosts’ defence wsa first beaten by a penalty kick with later the visitors adding two goals. Ibraimi celebrated a brace and now took the lead at the goalscoring list with 15 goals.
Rabotnichki was leading 2:1 against bottom-placed Metalurg when Mite Cikarski was shown a direct red card in the 63rd minute. Still, the Club Hero managed to hold the result taking new important 3 points in the battle for the 3rd place since previously the hosts also remained with 10 men as Besart Krivanjeva collected his second yellow card in the 55th minute.
Sileks defeated Mladost away with a lone goal by Panovski. With the same result Shkupi beat renova at home with the scorer of the winning goal being their Turkish winter reinforcement Akgün.
Round 20 results:
Shkupi – Renova 0:1 (0:0)
62′ Enes Can Akgün
Metalurg – Rabotnichki 1:2 (1:1)
14′ Vlatko Stojanovski – 2′ Milan Ristovski, 56′ Bojan Najdenov
Mladost – Sileks 0:1 (0:1)
24′ Aleksandar Panovski
Bregalnica – Shkendija 0:3 (0:0)
50′ (pen), 85′ Besart Ibraimi, 83′ Armend Alimi
Turnovo – Vardar 0:1 (0:0)
52′ Hovhannes Hambardzumyan