Macedonia lost away to its Polish counterparts in a high scoring match in the first of the two friendlies scheduled for this month.

photo by Sportowe Fakty: the Polish team before kick-off

An entertaining match took place yesterday in Poland between the U19 national teams of the hosts and Macedonia. Despite the defeat the team of coach Goran Stankovski had a successful test match against a better quality opponent.

GIEKSA Arena in Bełchatów
 Poland – Macedonia 4:3 (2:1)
Goals: 39′ Mateusz Bogusz, 41′ Hubert Sobol, 50′ Maik Nawrocki, 59′ Przemysław Bargiel – 28′ (og) Jakub Kiwior, 71′ Bojan Kolevski, 88′ Alex Taleski
Poland: 12. Mateusz Kochalski; 13. Kacper Michalski, 21. Jakub Kiwior, 19. Maik Nawrocki (65′ 4. Jakub Mosakowski), 3. Marcin Grabowski; 11. Daniel Liszka (65′ 17. Marcel Pięczek), 6. Maciej Żurawski, 10. Łukasz Norkowski (46′ 8. Przemysław Bargiel), 16. Mateusz Bogusz (74′ 20. Łukasz Poręba), 15. Wiktor Długosz (46′ 9. Kacper Wełniak); 7. Hubert Sobol (74′ 18. Adam Borkowski).
Macedonia: 1. Bojan Timevski; 2. Zoran Ivanovski, 13. Angel Stratorski, 5. Stefan Naumcheski, 16. Jamie Perchevski, 6. Anes Osmanoski, 7. Tomche Grozdanovski, 8. Darko Churlinov, 9. Bojan Kolevski, 11. Jakup Berisha, 17. Ali Adem.
Yellow cards: Bogusz, Bargiel, Poręba (P)
Red cards: /
Referee: Paweł Malec 

Macedonia will now head to Birmingham where will play the second friendly on the 16th against the English U19 national team.