The national team of Macedonia under 21 was undeservedly defeated by the appropriate selection of Slovakia in the match that decided the winner of the international control tournament "Antalya Cup 2023".

The chosen ones of the selector Dragi Kanatlarovski they can regret the narrow 1-0 defeat, given our superior play throughout the 90 minutes and several excellent scoring opportunities. In addition to the dominance on the field and the excellent game, our young footballers were also damaged, two clean penalties were not awarded in our favor.

The only goal in today's meeting was the work of Veselovsky in the 66th minute of the meeting. In the first part, the judge did not award a clear offense over Dimitar Todorovski in the opponent's penalty area when the score is 0:0.

In the second part, Christian Maleski found himself in a good opportunity, but was illegally pulled by the hand of the opposing player. Another situation in which a clean penalty against Macedonia was not awarded. In this match, the young Macedonian national team missed several outstanding opportunities to score a goal through Kalkan, Krstevski, Angelov.

Macedonia U21: Dimitrievski, Despotovski, Fetai, Stojchevski, Feta, Nikolov, Ramadani, Todorovski, Kalkan, Ilievski.