Read our prediction for Italy vs North Macedonia below. This preview was written by a sport journalist who is specialised in betting tips and predictions.
Italy vs North Macedonia Prediction & Betting tips
Friday evening at 19:45, in C of the Euro 2024 preliminaries, Italy will play a decisive match at home against North Macedonia for the qualification to next year’s final tournament to be played in Germany. This group C consists of only five teams, in addition to the two that are going to face England, Ukraine and Malta. Italy and North Macedonia have met four times so far, the statistics being balanced with one win for both sides and two draws. In the round match, Italy first opened the scoring in the 47th minute, but was equalized at the end of the match in the 81st minute.
Italy:
Italy is the European champion in 2020, the final tournament was played a year later in 2021 due to the Covid pandemic, managing to beat England at home at Wembley. At this moment, Italy is in danger of missing the second consecutive final tournament, after last year it was absent from the 2022 World Cup, which was held for the first time in winter. The dream of participating in the 2022 World Cup was dashed even by the opponent they are going to face, North Macedonia managing to eliminate Italy in the semi-finals of the qualifying round. At this moment, Italy is in 3rd place in group C with 10 accumulated points, having three less than Ukraine, occupying 2nd place, which has one more match. In order to be able to defend the trophy won three years ago, Italy only has the option of victory today, going to play the decisive match against Ukraine in the last stage of the preliminaries.
North Macedonia:
On the other hand, North Macedonia made a nice surprise in the last preliminaries of the final tournaments but failed to qualify for any final tournament. The closest he came to the World Cup in 2022, but he lost in the final of the play-off for qualification, against Portugal 2-0, after, as I told you above, he managed to eliminate Italy in the semi-finals. In the current qualifications, North Macedonia has not found itself and is currently in the 4th place in group C, having only seven accumulated points and the chances to catch the 2nd place are non-existent.
Italy vs North Macedonia head to head matches
09.09.23 EUR North Macedonia vs Italy 1:1
24.03.22 WC Italy vs North Macedonia 0:1
06.10.17 WC Italy vs North Macedonia 1:1
09.10.16 WC North Macedonia vs Italy 2:3
* Our advice is: OVER 2.5 GOALS
* Selection odd for this bet is: 1.55
* This analyis is from our perspective and we highly recommend to inform also yourself about all details that can be decisive in your choise to bet!