North Macedonia and Germany will face off in the 2022 World Cup qualifying Group J matchday 8 at the Tose Proeski Arena on Monday. The kick-off is at 20:45 CEST.

Preview

Arguably on one expected this to happen but the Macedonians now look as the hot favourites to secure themselves a spot in the 2022 WC qualification playoffs as Blagoja Milevski's men jumped into the second spot following their 4-0 victory over Liechtenstein on Friday.

The Germans, for their part, are comfortably leading the standings, six points ahead of their forthcoming opponents, after beating Romania 2-1 courtesy of goals from Serge Gnabry and Thomas Muller on the same day. As a result, Hansi Flick's side could secure an automatic qualification for the Qatari tournament in Monday's clash in Skopje.

Team news

Tihomir Kostadinov is the only injury doubt in the hosts' squad due to a knock while Manuel Neuer and Robin Gosens won't help the visitors this time around through respective injury woes.

Prediction

Then Joachim Low's side sensationally suffered a 2-1 loss at the hands of the Macedonians in the reverse fixture in March and now it'll be up to Germany's new manager Flick to gain revenge on Milevski's crop for that bitter defeat this time around. Given the fact that taking all three points on Monday would send Die Mannschaft straight into the 2022 World Cup group stage, we'd back the former Bayern Munich head coach to extend his winning streak at the helm of Germany to five games on the bounce in this one. What's more, there would be no Goran Pandev to save the day for North Macedonia as the nation's legend retired from the international football this summer, so it's also hard to see the Germans conceding in Skopje as well.

Tip

Germany to win to nil at 1.79 with 1XBET.