Maccabi Tel Aviv coach ahead of the difficult task against the home team from Spain: "You have to fight to get something out and get a chance to advance to the next stage" • Kandil: "I feel I must take advantage of the opportunities I get"
Georgius Donis.
With the face to the next stage
Photography:
Ami fat
After a two-week reversal, Maccabi Tel Aviv will return tomorrow (Thursday, 19:55) to the European arena and the meeting against Villarreal in Bloomfield, as part of the fourth round of the Europa League home stage.
After the league victory over Hapoel Hadera, the Yellows hope to continue with the positive momentum and ahead of the game, the team held the traditional press conference.
"It's an important game for us," said coach Georgios Donis. "If we take something, we'll have a good chance of qualifying for the next stage."
"For me the most important things are our performance, discipline, passion and organization. Every game is different, with different players and different conditions. In the previous game against Villarreal the conditions were completely different than what will be tomorrow. Today our players are in better shape than 3 weeks ago and I believe Let's fight to get something out of this game. "
"I have confidence in the situation of my players, it means we come with the same mentality in every game. We will meet a good opponent and fight to get a result. It is not easy, but we do not think about other things but ourselves. We want to get better, play good football "And show ambition. That's what I want from my players. Tomorrow is a game that needs to be fought to get something out and get a chance to advance to the next level."
Maor Kandil added: "The coach gives me confidence, I feel good and I feel I must take advantage of the opportunities I get. This year in every chance I get I want to prove myself. I work hard, feel I am on the rise, but in football people have a short memory "So you have to work all the time. I feel good and hope to continue like this."
On Villarreal: "Everyone knows what opponent we are playing against but we believe in ourselves in every game, probably in a home game. The team has prepared and will prepare us well for the game."
"Obviously we want to look better. Against Hadera the first half was good, we had to finish the game. In the last 15 minutes we just went into an unnecessary panic that does not characterize us. I feel we connect, there is more confidence and I believe you will see Maccabi better in the next games."