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Saborit: “We want to show what we are capable of”
“We came to show what we are capable of, just like we did in the previous matches. I think we could be competitive. We will try win the match and collect the 3 points”.
Donis: “We expect a tough match and we are ready to fight”
Hernandez: “We want to get a good positive result”
With two victories from their opening two Europa League Group stage matches, Maccabi continue towards their next mission – Villareal who also have a 100% record.
The team arrived this morning at Ben Gurion airport where they depart to Spain and face Villareal tomorrow (Thursday 22:00).
Maccabi will land in the early hours of the afternoon at Costa Azahar airport in Castellon. Later on, the team will hold the pre-match press conference followed the final training session at La Ceramica stadium.
Novatus Dismas Miroshi joins the U19’s
Miroshi, who played for Azam FC is a member of Tanzania’s U-21 national side, impressed the youth academy’s coaching staff during an impression week at the club and will join the U19’s.
Maccabi’s Performance Director, Patrick Van Leeuwen, told the club’s official website: “Nova is a Tanzanian left footed midfielder who was recommended to our scouting department and we invited him for trials at the start of the season. Sadly, we were unable to hand him a trial for several weeks due to the COVID19 pandemic. Recently however we were able to see him properly and we are under the impression that he is a very interesting player who will be joining our structure at Maccabi”
Dor Peretz is the B.S.R sponsored October player of the month
The impressive performance of the midfielder who also scored the winning goal in Turkey against Sivasspor earned him the first place of the monthly survey.
Glazer: “I am proud to be part of this team”
Following the 2-2 draw against Maccabi Haifa at Sammy Ofer and collected a point, Maccabi’s midfielder, Dan Glazer, spoke about the match, the result and the start to the season.
“I would like to begin by saying that I am proud to be part of this team”, Glazer said. “We proved today that we have plenty of character. We wanted to win the game and felt in the second half that we could do it but the third goal didn’t want to go in. I think that we can’t start a game like that. Regardless what happens we can not let Haifa take a two goal lead, but we managed to get back in the game and show that we don’t break too easily. We should have won this match even though Haifa deserve a lot of credit for their game. The league is a marathon and I hope that in the end we will be in the place we deserve to be”
“We will need to continue the last 60 minutes of the game”
Maccabi held to 2-2 by Haifa
Pre Match
With a winless start from the first three league rounds, Maccabi’s coach Georgios Donis made several changes from the side which beat Sivasspor in Turkey on Thursday.
Enric Saborit returned to the starting line-up at left back while Sheran Yeini on his 450th appearance for the club slotted in on the right. Eitan Tibi and Luis Hernandez completed the defensive back four protecting Daniel Tenenbaum’s goal while Eyal Golasa also returned to the side joining Dan Glazer and Dor Peretz in midfield.
Avi Rikan who set up Dor Peretz’s winning goal in Turkey and Dan Biton who scored the equalizer from the penalty spot, were assigned to support Eduardo Guerrero who led the attack on his first league start.
Maccabi Haifa, for their part handed a debut league start to former Maccabi Spanish midfielder Jose Rodriguez, while defender Taleb Tawatcha returned to Haifa’s starting line-up after several years abroad.
First Half
Six minutes from the start the hosts took the lead as Eyal Golasa was dispossessed near the halfway line. Nykita Rakuvytsya charged forward and teed-up Tyron Cherry who broke into the area and slotted the ball past Daniel Tenenbaum. A minute later Haifa doubled their lead as Cherry repaid Rakuvytsya with a through ball before the Australian international curled a left foot shot into the far corner to make it 2-0.
Donis changed formation in the 25th minute as shifted to five across the back with Enric Saborit pushing into the middle alongside Tibi and Hernandez while Rikan moved to the left wing-back position. On the half hour mark however Haifa almost increased their lead only for Tenebaum to deny Yanick Wildschut who was sent clear through.
The first chance Maccabi had to score came on 35 as a corner fell into the path of Sabirit but the Spaniard failed to keep his shot down.
Three minutes later Maccabi cut the deficit as a quick exchange of passes between Dan Biton and Eyal Golasa released Eduardo Guerrero who kept his calm and fired his shot past Omri Glazer.
Second Half
Donis made two changes at the restart as Sheran Yeini and Guerrero were replaced by Maor Kandil and Aleksandar Pesic for his league debut.
Four minutes later Pesic came close as he was released into the area by Biton but the Serbian striker blasted his shot high over the crossbar and into the empty stand.
Mohamad Abu Fani flashed a shot over Tenebaum’s crossbar on 51 while Biton did the same at the opposite end seven minutes later. Donis added another attacking player as Yonatan Cohen replaced Golasa on the hour mark.
Saborit’s header from Biton’s free kick was caught by Glazer on 66 and Kandil sent a header wide a minute later. But in the 69th minute two of the substitutes combined for Maccabi’s equaliser. Hernandez sent a long chip to Kandil whose square ball from the byline was flicked home by Cohen.
Nick Blackman replaced Biton on the 80th minute and Ofir Davidzada came on for the tired Rikan a minute later.
The third successive league draw left Maccabi with three points from a possible 12, but now attention turns to the Europa League where Georgios Donis’s side travel to Villareal for a match between the two sides that have a 100% record
A history of 200 matches
200 – is the all-time figure of the official matches between the two clubs. The records show: 82 Maccabi victories, 54 draws and 64 victories for Haifa (Goal difference: 289-260 in Maccabi’s favor).
163 – the number of League matches between the two sides. The league encounter which was played more than any other league match.
4 – The number of league victories over Haifa last season. The first time in history that the Champions registers a 100% success rate when it faces the team in the runners up position 4 times in one season.
13 – is the run of successive matches Maccabi maintain an unbeaten record against Maccabi Haifa. Should Maccabi avoid defeat in the next match, they will equal their previous record of 14 unbeaten matches in succession against Haifa, which was set in 2016.
76 – Maccabi’s success rate in the meeting against Maccabi Haifa at Sammy Ofer. 7 victories, 4 draws, and 0 defeats.
35 – the number of appearances Sheran Yeini has against Maccabi Haifa and the Maccabi player who made the most appearances against Maccabi Haifa.
7 – the number of goals Nykita Rukavitsya scored against Maccabi in the last five seasons. The top scorer of goals scored against Maccabi from all the players in the league.
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