The Macedonian national football team will play a friendly match against Saudi Arabia at the Viktoria Zizkov Stadium in Prague (5 p.m.). It will be a great opportunity for coach Blagoja Milevski to check the form of his players just before the qualifying match against Liechtenstein, which will take place in three days (September 7) in Skopje.
The Saudi Arabian national team is a World Cup participant, a rival that deserves maximum respect.
"Saudi Arabia is a regular participant in the World Cup and I see the match as a challenge for all our players. I think that everyone who will play will be in function of what awaits us on Sunday, which is the match with Liechtenstein. I expect each individual to show their maximum and to impose themselves in increasing the competition in the team. I want to see that Macedonia can, even through those who have less playing time, players who are looking for new environments or who later decided their club status," said coach Blagoja Milevski.
For the national team players, every match in the national jersey is special and they approach it with great motivation. Elif Elmas also emphasized this.
"We always go out on the field after a victory, aware of the quality we have. Every performance for Macedonia is a plus motive and I believe that this friendly match will be of great benefit to us. This duel will give us a lot, because we will all see how far we have come and what kind of preparations we have had. We are playing against a serious rival, we watched footage from Saudi Arabia and therefore we will have maximum focus. This match is an excellent preparation and overture for the duel with Liechtenstein," says Elmas, who is maximally focused on the national team after completing his transfer to Napoli.
The match between Macedonia and Saudi Arabia starts at 5 p.m. at the Viktoria Zizkov Stadium in Prague. In the head-to-head matches, the Saudis have been better, with one win and one draw.
