The Macedonian U17 national team opened the Maltese adventure with a goalless draw against the U19 national team of hosts Malta.
photo by MFA/Stephen Gatt: moment of the game
Despite being two years younger the Macedonians managed to put on a good physical fight against the older Maltese players. In the opening half an hour Macedonia was even the better team on the field by dominating the play and possession.
In the rest of the game the play was even with the hosts having more serious scoring chances, while the young Lynx got near the home box on several occasions but showed poor finishing.
The squad of coach Mario Vujovikj will remain on Malta as on Thursday and Saturday will play another two friendlies, but this time against the U17 national team of the hosts. This games are part of the preparations for the upcoming EURO qualifications this fall in Skopje against Spain, Israel and the Faroe Islands.
Taċ-Ċentinarju stadium in Ta’ Qali 
Malta U19 – 
Macedonia U17 0:0
Goals: /
Malta: Duncan Formosa; Lee Ciantar (83′ Jamie Sixsmith), Dejan Debono, Zak Grech (79’ Daniel Curmi), Liam Mckay, Andreas Vella (79′ Glenn Attard), Shaun Dimech (83′ Ryan Tonna), Paul Mbong (73′ Clyde Bouvet), Bradley Sciberras (65′ Jean Paul Attard), Ayrton Attard, Andrei Spiteri (73′ Alexander Satariano).
Macedonia: 1. Aleksa Jordanov; 3. Besfort Arifi, 6. Gorazd Stojmenov, 5. Aleksandar Gjurkovski, 2. Filip Kostovski; 11. Rrezart Kokollari, 4. Dimitar Todorovski (C), 8. Ivan Nikolov, 7. Behar Fetai; 9. Metodi Maksimov, 10. Sava Avramovski. Bench: 12. Marko Alchevski, 13. Anatolij Petejchuk, 14. Neshat Murati, 15. Redon Kjamili, 16. Mario Ilievski, 17. Filip Andonovski, 18. Fisnik Saliu, 19. Leonid Ignjatov, 20. Azer Omeragikj.
Referee: Andrea Sciriha