Recap

Pobeda vs Rabotnicki, First Football League of Macedonia – Third Week, 26.08 (Sunday), 16:30, Stadium “Tumbe Kafe” – Monastery

Two former Macedonian champions on Sunday will face nine times in two in recent years, after Pobeda returned to Macedonia’s first league after a while very long. In the last eight duels, there is an almost complete balance, with Rabotnick is a little more successful, with four wins, for the top three triumphs of Pobeda. Only one meeting of these eight is closed without a winner.

Even with regard to the goals in the last eight games, Rabotnicki is more efficient, with 16, while Pobeda has scored 12 goals.In the last eight meetings between the two scudars, 28 goals were scored, or averaging 3.5 goals per game. The main judge of this duel will be Marjan Gocevski from Strumica.

Pobeda five most recent matches:
Shkupi – Pobeda 0:0
Pobeda – Belasica 1:0
Pobeda – Borec 2:1
Pobeda – Renova 1:0
Skopje – Pobeda 1:0

The last five matches of Rabotnicki:
Fortuna – Rabotnicki 0:6
Rabotnicki – Sileks 2:1
Rabotnicki – Renova 3:4
Honved – Rabotnicki 4:0
Rabotnicki – Honved 2:1

Key players of Pobeda
Viktor Velkoski (defender), Jordanco Naumoski (midfielder), Luka Trajkoski (midfielder), Antonio Kalanoski(striker)

Key players of Rabotnicki
Daniel Bozinovski (goalkeper), Sebastian Herrera (defender), Igor Nedeljkovic (striker), Petar Petkovski (striker)

POBEDA

Pobeda has started pretty well in the 2018/2019 championship, although last year,
had managed to secure survival only through runoff matches. The team from Prilep, in the first two laps, does not know about the loss, while archived three points, forgive 1-0 victory over Belasica’s first lap and unbalanced drama over Skopje the second week.

Pobeda is the only team in the first league of Macedonia, after two laps
the first has not scored a goal and for this the most meritor is the goalkeeper and the captain
of the team, veteran Darko Tofilovski.

In comparison with other teams from the first league, Pobeda during the midweek season was down, after Macedonia’s Cup 1/16 match against Struga Trim Lum team will do I develop next Wednesday.
Pobeda continues to play away from Prilep because of the stadium of this city “Goce Delcev” is now in a state of misery. The first match against Belasica, when he won 1-0 and this against Rabotnic, Pobeda has I decided to take you to the neighboring town of Bitola. Last year, most of the duels as a host, Pobeda had played in Strumica, while recently in Prilep played as a native in November 2017.

Pobeda has so far scored a single goal in the championship, that of winning against
Belasica on the first lap, when in the 70th minute he scored the American Nvazuebe. The latter during the summer came to Pobeda from Slovenian Gorica, where the season last nine matches had scored five goals.

Pobeda is unbeaten at the last four official meetings, where he has recorded three victories and a draw. Finally, he was defeated on May 16 by the Skopje team when had lost 1-0 in the capital. Pobeda even in this meeting will not be able to count on the services of two of key squad players, 22-year-old defender Viktor Velkoski and attackers 37 year old Blagoja Gesoski. Both were suspended in the league’s survival match first season last season, when Pobeda had defeated Borec’s hard and hard had remained in the first league.

RABOTNICKI

Rabotnicki has started with a very different form of the league’s new league first Macedonian football. On the first lap was the sudden loss at home from Renova with 3-4, then, in the second week defeated Sileksi with 2-1, at one another meeting hosted on the quality of the host. With five goals scored, but also suffered, Rabotnicki, after two weeks before possesses the best attack, but also the weakest defense in the first league of Macedonia.

During the weekend, Rabotnicki also held another very efficient match, where in
Macedonia’s 1 / 16th round, with 6-0 as the guest defeated the league squad third, the Skopje Fortune. At this meeting excelled Nigerian Geoffrey who scored three goals. Other goals came from Stoimenovski, Stankovski and Redev
Jankulovski.

Petar Petkovski from Rabotnicki, with three goals scored (one against Renova and two to Sileks), is the best goalscorer so far in the first league of Macedonia. He is followed by Barsegyan, Krstovski, Parfait and Stojanovski, who scored two goals. Petkovski is among the most players hopeful in the championship and is only 21 years old, member of Macedonia’s hopes.

Rabotnicki, two of the five goals so far in the championship, has undergone in
periods from 61 to 70 minutes of matches. With just two yellow cards after the first two laps, Rabotnick’s team is
the most disciplined team in the first league of Macedonia. Next comes the Academy Pandev with three yellow cards.

Rabotniki coach, Gjore Jovanovski, in this meeting will be able to count on him
all players in the squad, as there is no player suspended or injured.

Stadium “Tumbe Kafe” – Monastery

Before the game analysis:

Both teams have started pretty well in the championship, although Rabotnicki in
the first lap was surprised at home by Renova. It will be this one meeting between Rabotniki on the one hand, who now possesses the best attack and defending the poorest and in turn, Pobeda who has not scored any goal, but
for it has only one mark. It is expected that there will be a lot of calculations between both teams, with the guests who are in the favor of the player, having in mind the potential of the team owned by coach Gjore Jovanovski.

Possible Formations: