Austria - North Macedonia, Euro 2020 match preview

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The Euro 2020 football tournament is gathering momentum, and the opening match of Group C is a duel between Austria and North Macedonia. The bookmakers have the Austrian team as the favourite in this duel, but the Macedonians cannot be written off too early. We'll take a look at both teams and, as usual, share our match prediction, so we encourage you to read to the end.
Austria Alaba

Austria

Austria is not considered one of the favourites or outsiders in the tournament. The Austrian national team can be described as a strong middling team with a number of talented players from the top leagues of European football.

Predicted starting line-up for Austria against North Macedonia: Bachmann; Lainer, Dragovic, Hinteregger, Ulmer; Laimer, X Schlager; Sabitzer, Baumgartner, Alaba; Arnautovic.

Of these players, there are two who should be the main leaders of the Austrian team: David Alaba (Bayern Munich) and Marcel Sabitzer (RB Leipzig). Alaba will probably be seen on the left flank, while Sabitzer should take up a central striker role.

Will the third time be a lie?

This will be the third European Football Championship for Austria. In the first two, the team fell in the group stage, but both the team and the players believe that this year could be the time when they finally break through the group barrier.

Although Austria is considered the bookmakers' favourite in this match, the team's form is in doubt. The Austrian team will go into this match having won none of their last 3 international matches, lost 2 and drawn one. The Austrians lost 4-0 to Denmark, 1-0 to England and drew 0-0 with Slovakia.

North Macedonia

North Macedonia

The North Macedonian team should go into this match in a more positive mood, as their form before the championship seemed to be a bit better than that of the Austrian team.

In their last 5 games, North Macedonia have 3 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw. Interestingly, the North Macedonian team, which was considered the absolute underdog in the away game against Germany, with 21 odds for a win in that game, managed to win 2-1 and beat the German team on their home court.

North Macedonia has played 2 friendlies before this championship: a 1-1 draw against Slovenia and a 4-0 defeat against Kazakhstan.

Predicted line-up for North Macedonia in this match: Dimitrievski; Velkovski, Musliu, Ristevski; Ristovski, Nikolov, Ademi, Elmas, Alioski; Pandev, Trajkovski

The importance of a good start to the match

Part of the reason for North Macedonia's improvement in recent years is the fact that they play with energy and intensity in the first few minutes of the game, looking for scoring opportunities. North Macedonia has scored the first goal in 10 of its last 14 international matches.

Igor Angelovskiy has been the first to win all 10 games in which he has scored a goal. The last opponent to beat North Macedonia after conceding the first goal was Austria, who the Macedonians played in the Euro 2020 qualifiers.

Forecast

Both teams are well aware that the loser of this match will have virtually no realistic chance of qualifying for the next round, as both Ukraine and especially the Netherlands are certainly tougher opponents to beat. Although the Austrian team is not usually a high scoring team, defence is not the strong point of the North Macedonian team, so the Austrians with their strong forward line should make the most of their scoring opportunities. We can expect 2-3 goals in this match, so the odds of 1.85 for over 2 goals currently offered by the bookmakers look really good, especially since the money bet on 2 goals would be returned.

Austria to win, 1,75 kof., Betsafe

More than 2.0 goals scored, Betsafe

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