"PSG is one of the best teams in the Champions League, but anything is possible"
Barak Becher, coach of Maccabi Haifa, ahead of the meeting with Messi, Mbappe, Neymar and the other stars of the French champions: "It is possible to reduce the gaps through tactics, aggressiveness, faith and courage - and we have all of that."
Captain Neta Lavi: "The best player in history is coming here, but we will not be canceled"
Shlomo Weiss
13/09/2022
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 6:30 p.m
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Cycle 2
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Summary of Premier League goals - Round 4 (Sport1)
Maccabi Haifa began the third Champions League campaign in its history last week with a 2:0 loss in Portugal to Benfica, but with all due respect to the match in Lisbon, the excitement in Carmel is now felt many times over - and not only because tomorrow (Wednesday, 22:00) will be the first home game in the history of the greens in the city of Haifa, except that the opponent is none other than Paris Saint-Germain, the French champion crowned with superstars.
On Saturday, coach Barak Becher could have rested most of his players, but the one who did start the lineup, completed 90 minutes in a 1:3 win over Ness Ziona section and is in the lineup for tomorrow as well, is Omar Atzili.
The team hopes that Ali Muhammad will complete a full training session tonight as well and will be able to start at 11, when it is estimated that he will be able to share from the start.
At the beginning of his remarks at the press conference ahead of the game,
Barak Bacher said
: "We played a lot of games in Europe this year, even in the qualifying stages we were so-called underdogs and achieved good results. We want to continue on our way, even if we meet perhaps one of the two best teams in the factory. Our players are going through an excellent process, there were also many good things against Benfica and the same We will want to take it and improve. We believe that something good can be done, certainly at home with our amazing crowd. Obviously there are gaps, but they can be reduced by tactics, aggressiveness, faith and courage - and all of this is in this group. We believe that everything is possible."
"We believe that everything is possible."
Barak Bacher (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)
About Paris Saint-Germain, Bacher said: "This is an unusual opponent and we understand that. We prepared until Saturday for Ness Ziona, but the preparation is the same as for any game. There is nothing special here as far as the preparations are concerned, but it is clear that the atmosphere around is different and we feel the This. We'll try to do things smartly and in the way that led us here. If I'm not excited then I probably have to retire, certainly before a game like this. It's clear that on a personal level it's a big challenge, but for the whole team it's a big challenge and something that can go on the resume."
On the fact that PSG has never won in Israel: "We want to do the things we know how to do in the best way, but of course we have an opponent in front of us and we will make adjustments - we will be punished if we are not ready and focused for the entire 90 minutes."
Next to the coach sat the captain
Neta Lavi
: "The excitement is very great, both in the country and here, but this is not an exhibition game in the end - but a game in a very respectable position and we have a difficult challenge ahead of us. We want to show that we can handle the challenge. Take a shirt? It might be something nice for Instagram, We all want to show that we are worth this level. PSG is a team that is a candidate to win the factory, but we don't want to come and be eliminated, but try to show what we are worth in the hope that it will be enough."
Lavi also said: "The best player in history is coming here and with him a lot of other bright names, but we have to prepare for a strong game and do everything the coach asks. It is legitimate that everyone wants to come see Messi, but first of all the Maccabi Haifa fans deserve to come to the game and we also have to them".
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Lavi (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)
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victories
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Paris Saint Germain
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Juventus
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Maccabi Haifa
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2-0
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The Haifa City Hall will be illuminated tonight in the colors of the French flag, on the occasion of the arrival of the Paris Saint-Germain players to the city.
Tomorrow the building will be lit green, as a tribute to the Israeli champion.
In the other home game, Juventus will host Benfica tomorrow.
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