Struga TL recorded their third win in their fifth First League match after convincingly defeating Štip-based Bregalnica 4-0 at home. For the Štip „Blues“, this was their third defeat in as many away matches this season, showing that they are not the same team away from home as they are at their stadium in Štip.
The first two goals were scored by Hristijan Maleski. First, in the 14th minute, when Vosha crossed from the right to Shabani, whose shot was blocked, with the ball then reaching Maleski, who found himself unmarked 6-7 metres out and beat Jashar. That was also the score at half-time.
As soon as the second half began, Maleski scored his second goal. Shabani found himself on the right in a duel with Rajkov, and the Bregalnica player, attempting to clear the ball, ended up only assisting Maleski, who had no difficulty scoring his second goal.
Bregalnica had a chance through Temelkov to reduce the deficit, but his header went just wide.
Two minutes after this chance came the third goal into Bregalnica’s net. A long ball from Belica towards substitute Agama, who took advantage of the misunderstanding between the defence and goalkeeper Jashar to score into an empty net.
Stojanov then had an attempt saved by Vasilev, while Bregalnica’s complete „collapse“ continued in the 75th minute when, following Bojku’s pass, Shabani went one-on-one with the visitors’ goalkeeper and beat Jashar for 4-0.
Maleski missed two excellent chances to complete his hat-trick, but his attempt to score a third goal for himself and a fifth for his team in this match ended unsuccessfully.
