Macedonia U19 suffered a lone goal defeat in the friendly with their Cypriot counterparts.
The U19 national teams of Macedonia and Cyprus played the first of the two friendly matches scheduled for this week. It was a hard and equal game without many opportunities. The visitors used a mistake by the home defense and took the lead in the 73rd minute. At the end it happened that that goal decided the winner. The teams will reunite on Thursday for the second game which will kick-off at 13.00 CET.
Petar Miloshevski stadium in Skopje
Macedonia – Cyprus 0:1 (0:0)
Goals: 73′ Georgios Malekidis
Macedonia: Filip Ilikj; Slobodan Bocevski, Sabahudin Alomerovikj, Davor Zdravkovski, Darko Digalovski, Stefan Jevtoski, Emil Abaz, Sashe Shoposki (77′ Nehar Sadiki), Petar Petkovski (C), Besart Iseini (56′ Valentin Kochoski), Martin Hristov (68′ Remzifaik Selmani).
Cyprus: Giannis Michali; Andreas Daniil (70′ Thanasis Liasidis), Christos Gouler, Fivos Christodoulou, Rafael Anastasiou, Pavlos Christodoulou (73′ Sozos Papaharalambous), Andreas Frakou (C) (87′ Sotiris Fiakas), Georgios Malekidis (89′ Christos Xudas), Demetrios Charalambous (60′ Theodoros Papanikolaou), Theodoros Giosifidis (46′ Stavrinos Konstantinou), Panagiotis Artimatas.
