Many potential internationals were in action over the previous couple of days, Skopje born Lazar Vidic being one of them who also happened to score a goal.
Australia, A-League, Perth Glory – Sydney 2:1
Ivan Necevski was the #2 goalkeeper for Sydney behind Vedran Janjetović, while young midfielder Christopher Naumoff also opened the match on the bench but came on in the 63rd minute to replace Marc Warren. Their teammate Daniel Petkovski wasn’t called up for this game.
Australia, A-League, Newcastle Jets – Central Coast Mariners 2:2
21-year-old allrounder Ben Kantarovski played all 90 minutes in central midfield for the home team and also received a yellow card in the 13th minute.
Austria, Erste Liga, Kapfenberg – First Vienna 3:0
Vasil Kuleski started as an offensive midfielder for First Vienna and played until the 42nd minute when the referee sent him off with a red card because of a bad foul.
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Premijer Liga, Zeljezničar – Rudar 3:1
Forward Lazar Vidic played the whole game for the visitors and scored his team’s lone goal in the 64th minute. Unfortunately, this wasn’t enough to avoid the loss against Zeljezničar.
Vidic’s goal (at 1:12):
Germany, Bundesliga, Eintracht Braunschweig – Bayer Leverkusen 1:0
Centre forward Orhan Ademi began on Braunschweig’s bench and made a late substitute appearance in this narrow win at home after he replaced Domi Kumbela in the 86th minute.
Israel, Ligat ha Al, Hapoel Bnei Sachnin – Hapoel Nir Ramat 1:1
Marko Markovski started for the home team and played the first half before he was substituted by Ahmed Kasum at the half time break.
Italy, Serie A, Sampdoria – Sassuolo 3:4
Centre back Shkodran Mustafi played all 90 minutes for Sampdoria in this high scoring game against Sassuolo. Sampdoria was close to a point but Sassuolo prevailed on a late game winner by Domenico Berardi in the 89th minute.
Norway, Tippeligaen, Sandnes – Brann 3:1
Left back Erdin Demir spent the entire game on Brann’s bench.
Serbia, Prva Liga, Jedinstvo – Smederevo 1:0
Nikola Donevski was an unused substitute for Jedinstvo.
Slovakia, Corgoň liga, Dunajská Streda – Trenčín 1:0
Haris Hajradinovic played the whole game for Trenčín in this away loss against Dunajská Streda.
Sweden, Allsvenskan, Göteborg – Norrköping 2:0
Goalkeeper David Mitov Nilsson, as usual, started for Norrköping and conceded two goals in this road loss.
Switzerland, 1.Liga Promotion, Étoile Carouge – Basel II 2:3
Naser Aliji played all 90 minutes for Basel at left back and won all three points in the game away to Étoile Carouge.
Switzerland, 1.Liga Promotion, Juventus Zürich – St. Gallen II 3:1
20-year-old Eldin Muharemi made the start for St. Gallen in left midfield and played until the 72nd minute when Jan Breitenmoser took his place. Muharemi also served as captain for his team.