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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Routine 3:0 victory over Andorra

Macedonia had an easy and routine 3:0 victory over Andorra. Very convincing start when Macedonian players scored 3 goals within 30 minutes. But the rest of the game was pretty diappointing and boring to watch, as Katanec' team didnt find any keys to unlock the crowdy Andorran defence wall in front of the box, although they were down to 10 men for more than an hour. In the 10th minute it was Macedonia's star player Goran Pandev who opened the score with a beautiful goal, shortly to be followed by Nikolce Noveskis 2:0 and Ilco Naumoskis 3:0 in the 14th and 30th minute. Andorra were then down to 10 men, after Antoni Sivera received a red card for a bad start and so consequently the Andorrans started to defend with 10 men in front of the box, which made it quite hard for the Macedonians. It was very expected style from Andorra as they played with no attacker for almost whole match. The only attacker in Andorra's squad entered the match in the 87th minute.
But this is match that to forget very soon, the only thing important for marking from this match are the yellow cards for Pandev and Naumoski. They will both miss the important match against Russia next month (15th November in Skopje). A pretty unnecessary outcome of this match! Katanec will have to think about a replacement for the two attacking players. Both first eleven players were therefore substituted early in the match for Aco Stojkov and Darko Tasevski. Partizans Stojkov, Tasevski, Sakiri or Ristic might slip in for Pandev and Naumoski against Russia.

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