Macedonian U19 national team noted a 1:1 draw against their Bulgarian counterparts.

In the first of the two planned friendly matches, Macedonia U19 and Bulgaria U19 played a 1:1 draw. The match was originally supposed to be played yesterday, but due to heavy rain it was moved to today.

Macedonia had several good chances throughout the match and had the lead until the final whistle but the visitors managed to score the equalizing goal in the final moments of the match. Prior to that, Andrian Chavoli opened the scoreline in the 50th minute.

Macedonia: Dushan Gjorgjev, Filip Stojanovski, Sabahudin Alomerovikj, Todor Nikolovski, Goran Terziev, Aleksa Amanovikj, Petar Petkovski, Konstantin Cheshmendjiev, Adrijan Chavoli, Tihomir Kostadinov, Taulant Sulejmanov
Substitutes: Filip Ilikj, Slobodan Bocevski, Igor Perchinkov, Redjep Kurt, Remzifaik Selmani, Stefan Mishev, Valentin Kochoski.

“I am satisfied with some parts of the play, but we still need to improve before the start of the qualifications tournament. We especially need to focus on passing and crossing. Our opponent did not had chances today and scored their goal from their only opportunity. I hope we will play one more quality match with this opponent before the qualifying tournament starts’ was quoted saying Mario Vujovikj, Macedonia U19 manager.

Macedonia U19 is host of the qualifying tournament for UEFA EURO 2015. The matches will be played in October and the other group participants are France, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Liechtenstein.