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Maccabi Haifa's five biggest away victories in Europe

Davidovich's heroic performance in Valencia, Benyon's goal in Paris, Arbeitman's goal against Salzburg and the big moment in the careers of Alon Mizrahi and Adoram Casey.

Just before the match against Slavia Prague (22:00, Sport 2), we were reminded of the sweetest and most memorable moments of the Greens in away games in Europe

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• Paris Saint-Germain

Shlomo Weiss

Thursday, 04 November 2021, 17:45

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5. Valencia vs Maccabi Haifa 0: 0

After recording a record achievement for an Israeli team in the Champions League home stage campaign in the 2002/2003 season, the Greens arrived for the 2003/4 season with expectations of recording another record season in Europe, this time in the UEFA Cup. Then the Valencia The Greens came into the game against the Bats and the only question that floated in the air was how big would be Haifa's defeat.

From the opening minutes it was possible to see the superiority of the Spaniards, but the Green goalkeeper Nir Davidovich locked the goal in a record display and in fact, managed to end the game without conceding a goal.

The green attack almost did not endanger the host's goal at all, but Davidovich's display, which earned him the nickname Octopus and the impressive draw against a team from the top of Europe, made the game at Mastaya one of the most memorable games in the history of the Green Club.

"Everyone celebrated frantically at the end of the game," Davidovich recalled in one of his interviews before retiring from active play, "but I did not celebrate because I was just too exhausted."

Indeed the Greens celebrated for a few days the tremendous achievement, but reciprocated they surrendered to Valencia and were expelled from the factory.

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The game that earned him the nickname "The Octopus".

Nir Davidovich (Photo: Adrian Herbstein)

4. Salzburg vs Maccabi Haifa 2: 1

Exactly six years after qualifying for the Champions League home stage for the first time, the Greens reached the Champions League qualifiers for a double encounter against Austrian Salzburg. The lottery decided that the first game would take place outside and Elisha Levy's trainees just wanted to come back with a result that would leave a chance for a rematch in Kiryat Eliezer. In practice, Levy surprised everyone when he came up with a very offensive line-up, and already in the first half the bet was successful when the young Muhammad Gadir scored the first goal. The Austrians still equalized and attacked the Greens in waves, but seven minutes before the end Shlomi Arbeitman managed to score a winning goal from Lior Rapalov's cooking and set up a huge advantage for the Greens towards the return match. In return the Greens completed the task and qualified for the home stage of the Champions League for the second time in the history of the club.

"There was great joy after the game in Austria," recalled one of the players in Haifa that season, "we realized that on Monday we become clear favorites to rise thanks to this away win."

A goal that was worth qualifying for the Champions League.

Shlomi Arbeitman (Photo: Maccabi Haifa)

3. Paris Saint-Germain vs Maccabi Haifa 1: 1

In the life of a football club there are several landmarks that become a milestone in the history of the whole club.

One of these points in Maccabi Haifa is the game in France in the first round of the Holders' Cup.

The Greens came to France for a game against Paris, which was even then a European football power for all intents and purposes.

In Haifa and also in France they were just waiting to see how many "pieces" the Israeli players of the Czech coach Dusan Ohrin will receive, but as the game developed it was clear that Haifa did not come to be used as a backdrop.

After a 1-0 deficit, the Greens managed in the final minutes to equalize from a big operation that included a great delivery by Ofir Kopel to the boy Yossi Benyon and from there to the net of the legendary goalkeeper Bernard Lama.

The Greens' draw became a milestone, when a high school student named Yaniv Katan made his debut and astonished everyone when together with Benyon, Alon Mizrahi and the others stunned the French, won 2: 3 and ran to the next stage and on the way to a dream campaign that stopped only in the factory quarterfinals.

A goal he will not forget against Paris.

Yossi Benyon (Photo: Official Website, Maccabi Haifa)

2. Storm Graz vs Maccabi Haifa 3: 3

Before 2002, no one in Israel really believed that an Israeli team could be on the luxury list of teams that reach the home stage of the Champions League. The Greens have received their new coach, Yitzhak Shom, and this is already in the opening training session, according to knowledgeable figures, which conveyed to the players that this season they will make history and qualify for the important factory on the continent. The Greens came to the decisive game after in the first game at home they won 0: 2 and came with a huge advance that was supposed to be enough. But already in the 11th minute the Austrians took the lead and suddenly it was that again an Israeli team would get cold feet in the moment of truth. In the 27th minute Giovanni Russo, who if not he set 1: 1 and it was clear to everyone that the game was over. But the Austrians did not say desperate and went up to 1: 3 on the way to what seemed like a reversal and dismissal of the Greens. Towards the 70th minute, Rousseau began to try to spur the rest of the team and made it clear to them that they were only coming down with the ticket to the Champions League. Indeed, in the 76th minute it was Adoram Casey who set 3: 2 and released all the pressure.Walid Badir then added his own goal and the Greens celebrated on Austrian soil one of the greatest moments in the club's history.

The biggest goal of his career.

Adoram celebrates in front of Storm Graz (Photo: Reuters, Reuters)

1. Pharma vs Maccabi Haifa 1: 0

With all due respect to the other rivals and games, there is no doubt that the Greens' most prestigious victory in an away game (the game against United was a home game despite being played in Cyprus) was over Parma in 1993. The Italians were then considered one of the best teams in Europe. Many.

The game in Italy was attended by Eyal Berkovich, Alon Mizrahi and the rest of the team, which is considered by many to be the best team in the history of Israel as a clear underdog, and it seemed that even a loss of three goals would be considered a kind of achievement.

But anyone who knows those players of Giora Spiegel understands that this is a bunch of unbroken winners.

After a magical ninety minutes the Greens led 0: 1 from a goal of the plane and the decision went to kicks from 11 meters, at the end of which the Greens may have been eliminated, but won headlines all over Europe for one of the great sensations of that period.

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