Vladan Ivić: "Zahavi will play against Aris. If he starts? Everything is possible"

The Maccabi Tel Aviv coach ahead of the meeting in Bloomfield (Thursday, 20:00, Sport4): "Eran is ready, I'm happy with him. We want to go up and we need to think about how to win. There were 2-3 players who didn't sign at the last minute."

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Yaniv Tuchman

03/08/2022

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Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Zira 0:0 (Sport1)

The atmosphere in Maccabi Tel Aviv could have been much better, a day before such a significant game.

The latest results, the protest of the "Maccabi Fanatics" fan organization, which is due to be written tomorrow, and the fact that in the playoff round Nice is waiting for the winner of the summary of the meetings against Aris Thessaloniki, led to a subdued mood among the yellows precisely before the first of two meetings against the Greeks (Thursday, 20:00, Sport4) .

Despite everything, Maccabi Tel Aviv very much hopes to beat the team that finished in third place in Greece tomorrow at the Bloomfield Stadium and thus obtain a significant advance for the rematch that will be held next Thursday in Thessaloniki.

The one who spoke about it today is the coach Vladan Ivić, who appeared at the press conference before the meeting.

"I live in Thessaloniki, where my home is, and of course when I have time I watch the Greek League. I know Aris and I know how she plays, this summer she also replaced 7-8 players and strengthened herself with very high quality players - Aris' last season was perhaps her best In the last 20 or 30 years. We respect it a lot, it's a team that has progressed a lot since the new owner arrived, but we want to be at the next level and have to think about how we beat them. We want to keep better in defense, be more purposeful and work on our identity. I'm sure we'll look better from game to game."

I know Aris Thessaloniki very well.

Vladan Ivitch (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

If Eran Zahavi is expected to play: "Yes, of course. He came to play. We waited for him to be ready - and now he is ready. If he starts in the lineup? I'm happy with him and everything is possible."

The situation of the injured in the squad: "Parfa Giagon and Shahar Piven are injured, the rest are fine. I hope that Parfa will be with us soon and Shahar will join us in training now, but after a month out it is impossible to share him, so maybe in the game next week."

If he is satisfied with the existing squad: "To be honest, it is not easy to convince players who can make a difference to come here. We made two or three moves and at the last minute the players refused for various reasons. We want to strengthen in certain positions, the window is open and we are working on it. I The first one who wants to get stronger, maybe even the more professional manager than me if not like me, but I won't add someone just to bring in."

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Zahavi (photo: official website, Maccabi Tel Aviv)

Even before the coach, the captain,

, spoke : "Why do we need to lift ourselves up? We are coming to a very important game in the Conference League, a league we want to be promoted to and we don't need special preparation - we are full of motivation. Aris Thessaloniki is also a stronger opponent than Zira, but you would Talking differently, if I hadn't missed two chances against Zira and so did Brandly, you wouldn't have said a word."

On the draws against Aris and possibly a meeting in the next stage against Nice: "We take the Conference League very seriously and are coming to give everything to get a good result against an excellent opponent. We are not thinking about Nice at all because we have a very big challenge ahead of us right now. Don't forget that in order to get the The scoring in Europe, we went through very strong opponents, and we succeeded."

Has Maccabi Tel Aviv lost confidence: "I don't feel that the guys have lost confidence. In my opinion, it's good that we have a large squad, because in Maccabi Tel Aviv there is no first team and second team. We don't feel that the players have lost confidence, there are players here who are confident that they can lead Maccabi is for achievements. Of course I want Dor Peretz and Eli Dassa to come, but we have good players in their roles as well."

If Maccabi Haifa is stressing them: "It would be funny to refer to Maccabi Haifa - the season hasn't started yet, teams don't win the championship right now. I'm not worried about that. Kudos to Maccabi Haifa who beat Olympiakos and is an excellent team, but we are also a strong team and we will also get stronger with time".

not afraid

Ivitch Vaini (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

As mentioned, Zahavi has returned to full training and in recent days he is trying to spur on his teammates and influence them a lot in preparation for his renewed debut in yellow-blue.

Ivić has also recently been practicing a 3-5-2 formation and is very seriously considering starting with three stoppers, with Nir Bitton and Dan Glazer set to start for the first time this season.

Daniel Peretz, Andre Geraldes, Idan Nachmias, Nir Biton, Sharan Yeni, Enrique Saborit, Dan Glazer, Joris van Overeem, Brendley Kubas, Gabi Kanikovski, George Jovanovic.

As far as Aris Saloniki is concerned, the team landed in Tel Aviv this morning and will hold the press conference and the final training session in Bloomfield this evening.

In recent days, coach Herman Burgos has been practicing in the lineup the brilliant acquisition Manu Garcia who arrived from Sporting Gihon for 3.2 million euros, but Gervinho did not come to Israel and will not take part in the meetings against Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Aris, as I remember, in the second qualifying round passed Gomel of Belarus, whom she defeated 1:5 in the home match and then beat her 1:2, in a match that was also held in Thessaloniki - as Hapoel Beer Sheva had with Dynamo Minsk.

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