Match Report
13 points and 6 places separated them: Vardar 5th with 43, Gostivar 11th with 30. On the form table Vardar stood 1st over the last five rounds, despite being 5th overall. Against a league average of 1.17 goals per team per game, Vardar ran at 1.06 scored and 1.15 conceded, Gostivar at 1.12 and 1.
Gostivar arrived on a run of three straight wins. Over the last five, Vardar had taken 5 of 15 points to Gostivar's 13.
4 meetings are on record — 0 won by Vardar, 1 by Gostivar, 3 drawn, at 1.5 goals per meeting. History gives the home side just 0% of the wins in this matchup. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 0% of the meetings went over two goals.
Nacionalna Arena Filip II Makedonski in Skopje staged the fixture, a ground that holds 33,011. It was 0-0 at the break, and the second half added 2 goals for the 0-2 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Gostivar: Assane Diatta (63'), Ivan Ivanovski (86')