Comments and predictions for North Macedonia vs Belgium: Home team makes a surprising comeback
The match between North Macedonia and Belgium in the World Cup qualifiers will take place at 1:45 a.m. on June 7. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest North Macedonia vs Belgium team information
Goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski (Valencia) will likely guard the North Macedonia goal, protected by the central defender trio Gjoko Zajkov, Visar Musliu and Jovan Manev.
Enis Bardhi will captain the team on Friday, and is one of the team's main attacking threats, being the third-highest goalscorer in the country's history.
Striker Miovski (Girona), who has scored 5 goals in his last 7 appearances for the team, will play up front for the home team.
On the away team's side, goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid) cannot participate due to a back injury.
Although Nordin Jackers (Club Brugge) was called up as a replacement, Matz Sels (Nottingham Forest) is likely to start in the next match.
Romelu Lukaku – fresh from winning Serie A with Napoli – will continue to lead the Belgian attack and aim to add to his tally of 88 international goals.
Latest predicted lineup for North Macedonia vs Belgium
North Macedonia:
Dimitrievsky; Zajkov, Musliu, Manev; Ilievski, Alimi, Kostadinov, Alioski; Bardhi; Miovski, Elmas
Belgium:
Sels; Meunier, Faes, Debast, De Cuyper; De Bruyne, Onana, Tielemans; Trossard, Doku, Lukaku
Latest football prediction North Macedonia vs Belgium
North Macedonia are dreaming of making their first appearance at a World Cup finals, after making their debut at a major tournament at EURO 2020.
They enter the 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign in good form, having picked up 16 points from six UEFA Nations League games and secured promotion from League C at the end of 2024.
North Macedonia continued their winning streak, starting their qualifying campaign with a 3-0 home win over Liechtenstein in March.
However, they were unable to claim victory against Wales, as Bojan Miovski's 91st-minute strike was equalised by David Brooks in the 96th minute in a dramatic 1-1 draw. The result left North Macedonia level on four points with Wales in Group J.
Despite missing out on a valuable three points, the draw extended their unbeaten run to eight games – their last defeat coming against the Czech Republic in a friendly in June 2024.
In fact, they have not lost an official match since a 2-5 defeat to Italy in the EURO 2024 qualifiers in November 2023. However, that unbeaten streak could be threatened when they face Belgium – currently ranked 8th in the world according to FIFA rankings, 59 places above North Macedonia.
Coach Rudi Garcia took over at Belgium earlier this year after Domenico Tedesco was sacked following poor results at EURO 2024 and the 2024-25 Nations League.
After failing to get past the round of 16 at EURO, the “Red Devils” continued to disappoint when they were placed in the relegation play-off position at the Nations League, with 4 defeats in 6 matches in Group A2.
Garcia opened his tenure with a 3-1 defeat to Ukraine in the first leg of the play-offs, but guided Belgium to a 3-0 comeback win in the second leg to secure League A status in the Nations League.
The French tactician is now focused on taking Belgium to a fourth consecutive World Cup, as favourites in a group containing North Macedonia, Wales, Kazakhstan and Liechtenstein.
After a string of disappointing away games, Belgium will travel to the capital Skopje hoping to claim their first away win since a 3-2 win over Austria in a EURO qualifier in October 2023.
The visitors can be confident thanks to their superior head-to-head record: 3 wins, 1 draw in 4 meetings with North Macedonia, including 2 away wins – 5-0 in the EURO qualifiers in June 1995 and 2-0 in the World Cup qualifiers in March 2013.
Latest North Macedonia vs Belgium score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.North Macedonia vs Belgiumas follows:
- Sportsmole:North Macedonia 1-2 Belgium
- WhoScore:North Macedonia 0-2 Belgium
- Our newspaper predicts:North Macedonia 1-2 Belgium
When and where to watch North Macedonia vs Belgium live?
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