Austria vs North Macedonia: is everything so obvious?

Austria national team made it to the European championship for the second time in a row and for the third time in team's history. Das Team finished second on their qualifying group, behind Poland and ahead of Slovenia, Latvia and Israel.

We should also mention team's fantastic performance in the Nations League, where The Red and Whites got four wins and one draw in six matches, it was enough for the first place in the group, so Austria got a promotion to League A.

In the first match of qualification for the 2022 World Cup Franco Foda's players had a draw against Scotland (2:2), then they defeated Faroe Islands (3:1), but after that they were heavily beaten by Denmark (0:4) in a home match. In two friendly games Austrian team failed to score, losing to England (0:1) and then they had a draw against Slovakia (0:0).

We should mention that 80% of Austria squad members are playing in the German Bundesliga.

North Macedonia national team will make a debut on the European championship. Balkan team finished third on their qualification group behind Poland and their today opponent.

Lynxes got their ticket for the major European tournament from the Nations League playoffs, where they defeated Kosovo and Georgia (1:0) in the final. On that tournament Macedonian team failed to get a promotion to League B, losing it to Armenia.

On the qualification for the 2022 World Cup Red Lions started with a defeat to Romania (2:3), but then they trashed Liechtenstein (5:0) and got a sensational victory over Germany (2:1).

On June 4, Igor Angelovski's team had a warm-up friendly before the Euro against Kazakhstan, in which Macedonians left no chance to their opponent (4:0).