translated from Spanish: Austria got its first victory in a European Cup final against a debutant North Macedonia

The Austrian team got on Sunday its first victory in a final phase of a European Championship (3-1) against an inferior North Macedonia that, led by the veteran Goran Padev, fought the tie until the final whistle. Surrounded by a stand full of Macedonian fans in the historic debut in a great competition, Igor Angelovski’s team took to the field with conviction and desire to control the ball against an Austria that presented a more defensive scheme than usual. Despite the efforts of the debutant team, Austria showed from the start that the individual talent of their players allowed them to do a lot of damage with long centers for which the defenders had no answer. This is how the first goal of the match came, Sabitzer and Lainer revived their connection in the German RB Leipzig with a great centre of the first that the second finished off at the back of the net with a great definition with the inside of the foot. When his team was having the worst time, the veteran Goran Pandev appeared in the rain of Bucharest, who, after a bad rejection of the Austrian goal, who escaped the ball from his hands -claimed to have been the object of a foul-, defined an empty goal to score macedonia’s first goal in a final phase of the European Championship.Both teams went out on the pitch in the second half in search of the winning goal , which caused the match to increase in intensity but also in inaccuracies in the midfield. With the passage of minutes, Austria felt increasingly comfortable, especially with the entry of Arnautovic and Gregoritsch, who gave much more depth to the team’s offensive game. From the boots of the second -Gregoritsch- came the second Austrian goal, which was preceded by a magnificent center from the left side of an intermittent Alaba, new signing of Real Madrid.Los angelovski fought, with more heart than football, until the last minute to scratch the tie, but the talented Arnautovic sentenced the game on the final whistle after dribbling to the Macedonian goal , the rayista Dimitrevski.3.- Austria: Bachmann; Lainer, Dragovic (Lienhart, m.46), Hinteregger, Ulmer; Laimer (Baumgartlinger, m.93), Schlager (Ilsanker, m.94); Baumgartner (Gregoritsch, d. 58), Sabitzer, Praise; and Kalajdzic (Arnautovic, d. 59). Coach: Franco Foda1.- North Macedonia: Dimitrievski; Alioski, Musliu (Ristovski, m.86), Velkovski, Ristovski, Nikolov (Bejtulaim m.63); Elmas, Ademi, Bardhi (Trickovski, m.82); Trajkovski (Kostadinov, m.63) and Pandev.Coach: Igor AngelovskiGoles: 1-0, m.18: Leiner; 1-1, m.28: Pandev; 2-1, m.78: Gregoritsch; 3-1, m.89: Arnautovic.Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden). He admonished Trajkovski (m.42) and Alioski (m.52) for North Macedonia; and to Lainer (m.85) for Austria.

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