The Yellow & Blue veteran central defender, Tal Ben Haim is looking ahead to this evening’s crucial Europa League qualifying contest, 20:00 at the Netanya Stadium. Number 26 talked about Maccabi in Europe, the first leg and the team’s goal for tonight:

“We feel good and we believe in ourselves. We’re playing against a very good team with some good players but we will do the maximum in front of our fans to advance to the next round.”

About the first leg:

“We knew that it wouldn’t be an easy match and it wasn’t. We have to come into the game prepared in order to advance to the next qualifying round.”

Maccabi in Europe:

“Of course we all want to have a good European campaign and Maccabi Tel Aviv is always aiming to make it into the group stages of the Europa League or Champions League and I hope we do exactly that.”