Recap

Macedonia’s First Football League – Second Week, 19.08 (Sunday), 17.00, City Stadium in Tetovo

Renova and Vardari have developed 44 matches so far, with the most successful slaves, with 20 wins. The team from Tetova has triumphed nine times in these duels, while 15 challenges are closed without draws.

In 43 games so far, Vardari has managed to score 60 goals, while Renova 21 is less, or exactly 39 goals.

In the 43 meetings so far between Renova and Vardari, an average of 2.3 goals for the duel. Vardar has recorded 1.36 goals, while Renova from 0.89 for the match.

Dimitar Meckaroski from Skopje will be the main reference of this meeting.

Renova’s last five matches:

Rabotnicki – Renova                        3:4

Pobeda – Renova                              1:0

Renova – Shkëndija                          0:3

Shkupi – Renova                              3:0

Renova – Vardar                              1:1

Vardar’s last five matches:

Shkëndija – Vardar                           2:2

Vardar – Pyunik                               0:2

Pyunik – Vardar                               1:0

Vardar – Balzan                                2:4

Vardar – Orenburg                          0:1

Key players at Renova: Matija Kobetic (goalkeeper), Fisnik Zuka (defender), Emran Ramadani (striker), Vlatko Stojanovski (striker)

Key players at Vardari: Filip Gacevski (goalkeeper), Evgen Novak (defender), Viktor Juffo (midfielder), Tigran Barseghyan (striker)

RENOVA

The Renova team, during the summer transfer window, has made some more moves, but there have also been weight players who have been removed from the pitbulls. However, as the biggest move can be called the appointment of coach Jeton Beqiri, who in the past years had been assistant coach at Tetovo Shkëndija and Flamurtari in Vlora. As far as players are concerned, big players can come from Albania, Fisnik Zuka, Alban Sulejmani and Emran Ramadani, who return from where he was transferred to Tirana’s Partizan one year ago. From the outings, Valmir Nafiu reinforced the local rival Shkëndija and Mexhit Neziri who moved to Latvia to Ventspils.

Africans: Fisnik Zuka – Flamurtari, Albania (defender), Emran Ramadani – Partizani, Albania (striker), Nikola Pantovic – Szolnok, Hungary (striker), Miran Maksuti – KEK, Kosovo (striker), Alban Sulejmani – Partizani, ), Aleksandar Ristevski – Pelister, Macedonia (defender), Ilber Bekiri – Shkëndija U19, Macedonia (midfielder)

Leaving: Lavdrim Skenderi – Gostivar, Macedonia (striker), Lucao – SC Gjilani, Kosovo (striker), Valmir Nafiu – Shkëndija, Macedonia (striker), Mexhit Neziri – Ventspils, Latvia (defender), Dejan Cvetanovski – Struga, )

Renova made the first lap of one of the most beautiful surprises, winning as a guest against Rabotnic in Skopje, 4-3. In the first official match as the chief skipper, the youngest coach, Jeton Beqiri, managed to win the tactical battle with highly experienced coach Gjore Jovanovski. Alban Sulejmani recorded a very good debut in the Renova shirt, scoring goals after just four minutes of play. Then, in the first part, I also scored Fatjon Jusufi, while in the second, twice scored Vlatko Stojanovski, who continued where he stayed last year with the series of goals.

For Renova, Sunday’s victory against Rabotnic in Skopje was the first guest after more than 15 months. The team from Tetovo, during the entire championship of the past and in 18 trips, did not manage to win any match, while the last victory as a guest since May 2017.

Until the defeat of Shkëndija in the last campion match host last season, Renova was in a series of five unbeatable meetings ahead of his viewers, where he had recorded four wins and a draw.

Jeton Beqiri has no problems with injured or suspended players and in this meeting he can be presented with his best 11.

VARDAR

Compared to previous seasons, this year, the Vardar team is considerably weaker, both in terms of player formation and fund, but also in terms of finances. General sponsor of the team for many years, Russian Sergey Samsonenko has warned his full withdrawal from Vardar, and to help with the most trophy team in Macedonia, for the moment is offered the Municipality of Skopje, who wants to be 51 % of team shares.

As a consequence of the not so good financial situation, compared to the previous years, this summer’s Vardar’s mark has shifted more to the point of departure rather than approach. The team left most of the biggest stars and game holders in the historic success, placing themselves in the Europa League groups last year. In the squad no longer are players like Darko Velkovski, Dejan Blazevski, Boban Grncarov and Hovhanes Hambardzumyan, while these players have tried to replace the Brazilian Victor Juffo, Danilo Bala and Willian Lira.

Afro-African midfielder Darko Micevski – Al Nejmeh, Lebanon (midfielder) Nicolas Herranz – Olimpo, Argentina (defender), Filip Najdovski – Pobeda, Macedonia (midfielder) Victor Juffo – Flamurtari, Albania (midfielder) Aleksandar Kirovski – Cukaricki, Kosta Manev – Kemi, Finland (defender), Danilo Bala – Campinense, Brazil (striker), Willian Lira – Salgueiro, Brazil (striker)

Darko Velkovski – Rijeka, Croatia (defender), Dejan Blazevski – Tirana, Albania (striker), Igor Aleksovski – Skopje, Macedonia (goalkeeper), Vanja Markovic – Farense, Portugal (midfielder), Aco Stojkov – Akademija Pandev , Macedonia striker), Boban Grncarov – without club, Darko Glisic – without club, Hovhanes Hambardzumyan – without club, Nikola Gligorov – without club

Even though he started the championship on the most difficult journey and after a long time as full outsider against the biggest rival Shkëndija, Vardar started the new soccer season with a positive result and draw 2-2 in Tetovo. Two long-distance goals from experienced players, Tigran Barsega and captain Goran Popov, brought a valuable point from this duel to Vardar, the duel in which the Rossoneri from Skopje over 30 minutes also had a numeral advantage over the field.
After replacing three coaches last season, this year, Vardar started under the direction of former

footballer Aleksandar Vasoski, who for the first time was making the head coach, while last year was in the technical staff of coaches Cede Janevski and Boban Babunski.

For Vardar this will be the second trip to Tetovo within just seven days, taking into account the first match of the championship that played a week ago against Shkëndija in Tetovo.

Coach Aleksandar Vasoski has no problems with injured or suspended players and for this meeting he will be able to count on all his players.

City Stadium in Tetovo

The stadium in Tetovo, which offers excellent conditions in terms of field, but not other parts of the stadium, as usual when Renova plays, is almost empty and so is expected to be tomorrow. However, the field, completely reconstructed more than a year ago, continues to be perhaps the best in Macedonia and offers all players the ideal conditions for a beautiful and open game.

Before the game analysis:

Renova and Vardari have known in the past to offer beautiful, offensive and naked football. After the first through fixtures, both teams are more than happy. Gypsies with victory in Skopje against Rabotnic, while Skopje with the detachment in Tetovo from Vardar. In this duel, both coaches enter with all possible players and without shortage, with crust this will be an indirect clash between two young coaches, but also very promising for football in Macedonia. Both teams were quite efficient on the first lap and this is expected to be repeated tomorrow in Tetovo.

Possible Formations: