Israel vs FYR Macedonia
The Group G match-5 European Championship qualification day will present the match between Israel against FYR Macedonia, where the match will be held at the Yaakov Turner Toto Stadium. Interestingly even though the visitors are ranked fifth in the standings but they still have a chance to overtake Israel which is ranked 2nd at the moment because both teams are 3 points adrift.
History records that they have met 5 times since 2002, 2007, 2016 and 2017. From these 5 meetings Israel they won 4 wins and 1 other match won by FYR Macedonia namely in the last 2017 meeting in the European Zone World Cup qualifiers. The result is certainly still imprinted on Israel remembering they were humiliated 0-1 because of a mere goal by G. Pandev.
Regardless of their encounter, Israel in their last match lost 4 goals without returning to the Polish headquarters and that was the first fall for Israel after the previous 3 games drew with Slovakian 1-1, beating Austria 4-2 and 0-3 over Latvia . While in the stronghold of FYR Macedonia had the first win over Latvia 3-1 it actually failed to continue the results became a positive trend.
FYR Macedonia drew 1-1, then humiliated Poland 0-1 and 1-4. Interestingly in FIFA Ranking while FYR Macedonia ranks 72nd Israel ranks 84th, even though Israel is more favored to win. Apart from benefiting from home but also Israel the most favored team by Poland. It is likely that the Macedonian FYR will collapse.
Our Prediction: 1
Odds: 1.80