Recap

LPFM – Week 33, 06.05 (Sunday), time 16.30, Stadium: Arena “Philip II” – Skopje

For Rabotnički and Pobeda, it will be their 26th so far with Rabotniçki who has won ten times, Pobeda with six triumphs and ten games closed without a winner. In these meetings, Rabotnički scored 43 goals, while Pobeda scored 35 goals.

In the three meetings this season, Rabotnički has won twice, while Pobeda one. These challenges have been quite effective, with 12 goals, or an average of four goals per game. Rabotnički won the first two rounds of the season, with 4-2 in Prilep and 4-0 in Shkupi, while the last game played between the two teams in Strumica, with Pobeda as a native, met the team from Prilep with 2-0 .

The main referee of the match will be Petar Mantev from Negotino.

Rabotnički last five matches:

Shkendija – Rabotnički 3:0

Rabotnički – Shkupi 1:1

Vardar – Rabotnički 0:1

Rabotnički – Pelister 4:0

Renova – Rabotnički 2:1

The last five games of Pobeda:

Akademija Pandev – Pobeda 1:0

Pobeda – Shkendija 2:1

Shkupi – Pobeda 3:1

Pobeda – Vardar 2:0

Pelister – Pobeda 1:1

Key players at Rabotnički : Leon Najdovski (defender), Dusko Trajceski (midfielder), Ostoja Stjepanovic (midfielder), Viktor Angelov (striker)

Key players at Pobeda: Darko Tofiloski (goalkeeper), Filip Najdovski (midfielder), Ivan Ivanovic (striker), Blagoja Geshoski (striker)

RABOTNIČKI

After the positive performance of the team since Djordjevic’s appointment at the top of the bench, Rabotnički failed in Wednesday’s match against the new Shkëndija champion, losing 3-0. For the Romans, this was the second deepest defeat this season, while the other is from the Shkendija team that had won 6-2 at the start of the season.

After four wins in five games with Jovanovski’s arrival, Rabotnički is now in a series of two unbeaten meetings. Initially equalized 1-1 with Shkupiand then lost from the 3-0 Shkendija at Tetovo.

With 42 points accumulated in 32 games, Rabotnički is currently in the fourth place, which is the country with the victory of the Shkendija in the cup, can send to the Europa League. The Romans, thanks to the good performance in the second half of the season, have increased the likelihood of eventual European exit and currently, they are four points less than Sileksi’s third and two more than Renova’s fifth.

Rabotnički does not know about host defeat at the last four meetings and since March 10, when he was 2-0 from Shkendija. Since then, the home has two wins without a goal against Sileks and Pelister and two 1-1 drawings against Akademija Pandev and Shkupi.

Viktor Angelov is the most formidable player of Rabotnički for the moment. The 24-year-old, borrowed in February by Hungarian Ujpesti, has scored four goals in 11 meetings so far this year and has five aces. Angelov managed to score from one goal in three of the last four meetings against Pelister, Vardar and Shkupi.

Nigerian Geoffrey continues to be Rabotnički’s best scorer, with ten goals in 24 appearances. After him, comes Kire Markoski with nine goals in 25 games.

Left-back from Colombia, Sebastian Herera, is still injured and is not expected to play either tomorrow for Rabotnički. Tomorrow is not expected to play any other defender, Momcilo Raso from Montenegro. He too is also injured.

Macedonia’s hopes representative, defender Nehar Sadiki, will be another shortage in Rabotnički for this meeting. Titled in recent matches, Sadiki in the match against Shkendija was punished with a red card and by the disciplinary commission was punished with two matches.

After the absence in the match against Shkëndija, tomorrow in the formation will return the experienced midfielder, Ostoja Stjepanovic. He is the player with the most played games and minutes played for Rabotnički this year.

Brazilian Serginho in the event of a yellow card penalty tomorrow, will not be able to play the next championship match.

POBEDA

Pobeda comes into this duel after defeating Akademija Pandev on Wednesday, which overcomes his work in the struggle for survival. Toni Meglenskit’s performers played a good match at Turnovo, but in the end did not succeed in recovering the goal that was scored in the second minute of the match.

Wednesday’s defeat allowed opponents of Pobeda, Skoplje and Pelister to archive three points to approach just one point from the squad from Prilep. At a time when four games are left to the end, Pobeda is the eighth with 32 points, a position which does not guarantee survival, but only allows a play out game with one of the second team teams.

Pobeda is the most catastrophic series in terms of recent trips, which has lost six of the last seven games as a guest, where he has only equaled Pelister in Manastir.

Last victory as guest in the championship, Pobeda has since November 26 last year, when he defeated Skopje in Skopje with 1-0. Since then, in seven games outside the home has earned a single point.

Pobeda is the second team with the weakest balance as this year’s guest in Macedonia. In 16 trips, he has won only twice and has equaled three games, with the highest number of defeats, totaling 11. In these matches, the team from Prilep has scored nine, while has suffered 29 goals.

In the match against Akademija Pandev, Pobeda interrupted the series of five consecutive matches in which he had scored at least one goal.

The Pobeda team has the second weakest defense in Macedonia, with 51 goals scored in 32 games. Weaker than they are just Pelister, who has a less developed match and has scored 52 goals.

Pobeda does not have a player injured or suspended on the eve of this meeting.

In case of punishment tomorrow, the next round for Pobeda will not be able to play Filip Najdovski, Viktor Velkoski and Nikola Jacimovic.

In 37 years of age, one of the oldest players in Macedonia, Blagoja Geshoski, is the best and most efficient player in Pobeda this year. He has scored eight goals in 29 meetings so far.

Defensive midfielder Filip Najdovski is Pobeda’s second best goalscorer this season, with seven goals in 30 appearances. He has so far won 12 yellow cards and is the most punished player in the Macedonian championship this season.

Stadium: Arena “Filipi i Dytë” – Skopje

Arena “Filipi i Dytë” in Skopje is the most modern stadium in Macedonia and among the most modern in the Balkans. Recently, a series of meetings took place, with Rabotnicki and Vardar hosted on Wednesdays and Sundays. Because of the tight schedule of matches, the field is not in its best condition, but in spite of this, it is one of the best in Macedonia and offers good conditions for football.

Before the game analysis:

This will be a duel between two teams with completely different aspirations. The locals want three points and the apparent increase of hopes to go to Europe, which is the sole goal of the team, while guests are thinking of nothing but to win the eighth position, which does not guarantee survival but enables matches for play out or stakes in the first league. For this reason, tomorrow in Skopje is expected a strong confrontation between the two teams, with calculations, where no doubt the favorite is the home team, considering the catastrophic performance of Pobeda as a guest lately. An eventual victory for Rabotnicki would offer the team even more to Europe, while Pobeda’s eventual defeat would greatly undermine the team’s work from Prilep in the struggle for survival.

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