JadranSport.org, Serbia and Montenegro
June 4 2005
U21 FYR Macedonia fails to hook on the leading three with a goalless
draw in Armenia
04.06.2005
by Ivan Stojanoviæ
Macedonian youngsters will come back from Armenia disappointed as they
missed a chance of the match when their captain Darko Tasevski missed a
penalty by shooting directly towards the Armenian goalkeeper Edel Bete.
Throughout the match Armenians hade more of a terrain initiative and
the Macedonians attempted to breach their defensive line through
counter-attacks from which in several occasions Baze Ilijoski and
Darko Tasevski failed to produce their chances into goals.
Ilijoski also had hit the post, but the ball simply didn’t want to
pass over the goal line, and it was obvious that it doesn’t when
Nikola Gligorov and Aleksandar Stojanovski were also denied from
signing their names in the score sheet.
Therefore the result remained 0:0 and this match will be remembered
by 1,000 spectators which came to a stadium despite the heavy rain
fall that made this match to be a quite uninteresting event.
With this draw Macedonia is fourth in the Group 1 with 8 points three
less than second and third placed Czech Republic and Netherlands and
four from leader Romania. Armenia is on fifth place with 5 points
while Finlad has 3 points and is at the bottom but they also have 2
games less as well as Czech Republic.
Line ups
Armenia U21: Aleksanjan, Stepanjan, Simonjan, Safarjan, Osejan
(Hovnanisjan) Vardazrjan, Movsisjan, Babajan(Tetovosjan), Melkonjan,
Lombe.
FYR Macedonia U21: Tofiloski, Markoski, Osmani,Gligorov, Ivanovski,
Tanevski, Manevski, Masev, Ilijoski, Tasevski
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