Slovenia vs North Macedonia - prediction, team news, lineups

Slovenia will look to assertion their archetypal triumph of the 2026-27 UEFA Nations League run erstwhile they invited North Macedonia to Stozice Stadium connected Tuesday night, pursuing a play gully with Scotland. 

The visitors question to the Slovenian superior of Ljubljana searching for their archetypal points aft suffering a 3-0 decision to Switzerland successful their opening League B, Group 1 encounter. 

Match preview

Slovenia began their Nations League run with a goalless gully against Scotland connected Saturday, with Bostjan Cesar overseeing his archetypal competitory crippled arsenic caput coach. 

The hosts offered small going guardant successful that contest, managing conscionable 1 changeable connected people portion keeping Scotland astatine bay for agelong periods. 

Slovenia's antiaircraft show did supply encouragement, though, arsenic they recorded their archetypal cleanable expanse since October 2025. 

Cesar's broadside person present won conscionable 1 of their 5 matches successful 2026, portion their inconsistent Nations League signifier continued aft they recorded 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats successful the 2024-25 edition.

They volition truthful beryllium looking to marque location vantage number connected Tuesday arsenic they effort to unafraid their archetypal triumph of the run and perchance determination apical of the group.

North Macedonia get successful Ljubljana successful mediocre signifier aft suffering a 3-0 decision to Switzerland successful the opening Nations League fixture. 

That effect extended their winless tally to 8 matches, with the visitors having failed to find the nett successful their past 5 games, with their past extremity coming successful a immense 7-1 decision to Wales. 

Goce Sedloski's broadside had impressed successful the 2024-25 Nations League, earning promotion from League C aft an unbeaten campaign, but they person struggled to replicate that signifier successful caller months. 

Risovi person conceded 16 goals crossed their past 4 defeats, including astatine slightest 3 successful each of those, though they did negociate to grounds successive goalless draws successful games against the Republic of Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina earlier this year. 

They volition request a important betterment astatine some ends of the transportation if they are to instrumentality thing from Tuesday's travel to Slovenia but tin instrumentality assurance from their caller grounds against their upcoming opponents aft managing to travel distant from their past 3 meetings with the Central European broadside without defeat. 

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Team News

Cesar volition beryllium forced into astatine slightest 1 alteration connected Tuesday aft Vanja Drkusic suffered an wounded successful the goalless gully against Scotland and was ruled retired of the upcoming Nations League clash, with David Zec the astir apt campaigner to regenerate him.

Goalkeeper Jan Oblak made a drawstring of important saves successful that stalemate and is acceptable to marque his 86th quality for Slovenia, portion Andraz Sporar could miss out, with Swansea City guardant Zan Vipotnik an enactment to pb the line.

North Macedonia came done their 3-0 decision without immoderate further wounded concerns but could marque changes arsenic they look to apprehension their miserable tally of form.

Captain Enis Bardhi is expected to clasp his spot successful midfield and marque his 84th quality for the nationalist team, portion goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski volition resume successful betwixt the sticks arsenic helium edges person to 100 planetary games. 

Slovenia imaginable starting lineup:

Oblak; Karnicnik, Brekalo, Bijol, Drkusic, Janza; Matko, Cerin, Elsnik, Sturm; Sporar

North Macedonia imaginable starting lineup:

Dimitrievski; Ilievski, Zajkov, Musliu, Herrera; Kostadinov, Gastarov, Bardhi, Elmas; Miovski, Rastoder

We say: Slovenia 2-0 North Macedonia

Slovenia struggled to make clear-cut opportunities against Scotland, but we expect Cesar's broadside to instrumentality to winning ways connected Tuesday. 

North Macedonia are winless successful their past 8 games and caput into the clash arsenic the underdogs, truthful we are backing the hosts to unafraid a 2-0 victory.

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