North Macedonia vs Faroe Islands Prediction & Betting Tips (17 November)

With 13 points collected during the first 5 matches played in this group, North Macedonia has wandered through this Nations League and has already secured 1st place in its group. After only being held to a draw by the Faroe Islands 1-1 during the first day, the Red Lions had no difficulty in stringing together successes subsequently against Armenia 2-0, Latvia 0-3 and Armenia 0-2 again to fly to the top of the rankings. On Thursday, the North Macedonians won another victory ahead of Latvia to secure their 1st place. The Faroe Islands, for their part, are ideally placed at the end of the Nations League.

Indeed, they occupy 2nd place in the ranking of this group with 2 points ahead of their 2 pursuers who face each other on this last day. Consequently, they are certain not to finish last in this group. Beaten only once in this edition, the Scandinavians had obtained 3 draws in 4 days against North Macedonia 1-1, the Latvia defeated 1-0, Armenia 2-2 and Latvia 1-1 before finally winning their first success in Armenia on Thursday evening 0-1. 

North Macedonia will be able to field most of its usual starters in this game except perhaps the very valuable Elmas (Leipzig, 65 sels, 13 goals) who came out injured and who risks withdrawing this Sunday. We could therefore find in the starting 11 the goalkeeper Dimitrievski (Valencia, 75 sel), the defenders Alioski (Al-Ahli, 80 sel, 12 goals), Manec (Adana Demirspor) and Musliu (Paderborn, 64 sel), the midfielders Bardhi (Trabzonspor, 69 sels, 18 goals) or the striker Miovski (Firona, 28 salts, 5 goals). With 21 goals scored in 90 caps, Hajduk Split striker Aleksandar Trajkovski is the offensive leader of this team but it was central defender Serafimov who scored his team's only goal on Thursday evening. We can also highlight the loss of midfielder Kostadinov (Piast, 27 sel) who is injured. It is difficult to really highlight a player from this Faroe Islands team.

Indeed, most of them wear the colors of local championship teams or Scandinavian teams that are relatively little known to the general French-speaking public. The Sorensen defenders (Celje in Slovenia) and Edmundsson (Wisla Plock in Poland) are the rare ones to break away a little from this pattern. With 6 goals scored in 61 selections, the midfielder Brandur Hendriksson is the top scorer in this team. Absent last Thursday, striker Hallur Hansson (5 goals in 73 games) is expected for this match, as is midfielder Joensen who was injured against Armenia.