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Arun - May 30, 2021
North Macedonia vs Slovenia
International Friendly
Date: Tuesday, 1 June 2021
Kick-off at 17:00 UK/ 18:00 CET
Venue: National Arena Toshe Proeski (Skopje).
North Macedonia host Slovenia for a friendly game at Skopje to prepare for their maiden appearance at the European Championship.
Igor Angelovski are coming to this fixture in good confidence after an impressive run of results in March.
The icing on the cake is certainly the 2-1 win over Germany away from home, those who watch the game certainly remember how North Macedonia tactically outsmart one of the most prolific team in the world.
Prior to that, they crushed the minnows Liechtenstein 5-0 and were unlucky in the 2-3 loss in the World Cup qualifying group opener against Romania.
North Macedonia start their Euro 2020 against Austria on 13 June before locking horns with Ukraine and the Netherlands.
Slovenia failed to qualify for Euro and they made an inconsistent start to the World Cup qualifiers in March.
To everyone’s surprise they started off by beating Croatia 1-0 and then lost by a narrow 1-2 margin at Russia before completely losing the plot in the 0-1 defeat to minnows Cyprus.
Jan Oblak is the only superstar in the Slovenian ranks, now head-coach Matjaz Kek will be aiming for some confidence boosting results with core focus on upcoming round of qualifiers in September.
There have been 4 overall meetings between the sides and Macedonia are slightly ahead with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
The last of which came in the qualifiers for Euro in 2019, Macedonia won 2-1 at their own turf after bagging a priceless 1-1 draw in Slovenia.
It will be worth to noting that both teams score in 3 of their 4 h2h meetings to-date.
There is little to separate between the teams on paper as implied by FIFA rankings with North Macedonia sitting at 62 and the visitors 1 spot behind at 63.
Recent h2h record also suggest that this could be a tight affair, neither of these teams have won against each other with a 2+ goal margin.
This is further justified by bookies considering them as even favourites, the hosts on the weight of home advantage sit at 2.20 odd and Slovenia is priced at 2.80.
I am impressed by the scoring records of these teams, North Macedonia while playing at home saw both teams scoring in 4 of their last 5. Slovenia on the other hand saw the same in 4 of their last 6 away games.
Therefore, both teams to score priced at 1.90 odd is my top recommended betting tip for this friendly match between North Macedonia and Slovenia.
Meantime, brave punters can go with the correct full-time score of 1-1, meantime the over 1.5 goals full-time is for those looking to boost their accumulator slips.
Both teams to Score @ 9/10 (1.90) odd.
Correct Full-time Score: 1-1 @ (11/2) 6.50.
