Summary: Maccabi Haifa - Ghent 0:1/Sport1
In the shadow of the heavy security around them, Maccabi Haifa will try to maintain the 0:1 advantage from the first game against Gent and qualify tonight (Wednesday, 19:00, Sport1) for the round of 16 of the Conference League - a goal defined by the club as supreme.
Masai Dago is expected to continue with the method of three brakes when there is a debate as to who will be the two brakes alongside Shawn Goldberg.
Two of Daniel Sondgren, Abdulai Sak and Lorenzo Shimich will start in the center of defense.
In the team, a great alertness is felt for the game.
"It is also important for security, prestige and of course also for ranking points and our desire to continue establishing our position in Europe," said the club.
Haifa can make history today: a victory for the team will lead to the fact that for the first time ever, two teams from Israel will be together in the round of 16 of a European enterprise.
As we know, such a scenario will advance Israel in the fight for the 15th place in the league rankings, which will add another representative to the Champions League qualifiers in the summer of 2025 and put Israel on five representatives in the various establishments.
His place is not guaranteed?
Abdulai Sek/Maor al-Kalsalsi
In recent days, many Maccabi Haifa fans have wondered why players like Omar Dahan and Irin Levy are allowed to play in Europe even though they were not registered in the squad due to being young players, while Lior Kassa, who is younger than them, was not registered in the squad for games in Europe.
Casa was indeed not registered because he cannot be part of List B (in free translation: List B) - a list of young players who grew up in the club, where there is no limit of players.
Sof Podgorano is part of that list by virtue of being a home player for the club, while Casa was only recently acquired from Hapoel Jerusalem.
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