Maccabi Tel Aviv will face Swiss side FC Basel tonight in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League 3rd qualifying round tie at 20:00 in Basel. Maccabi's manager Paulo Sosa has made in known that he thinks that Basel are the clear favorites for tonights game by saying: "They will be coming to the match with that advantage of 30 years of experience in Europe. The team wonthe championship in the last 4 years and reached the Europa League semifinals last year".
As usual despite his previous comments Sousa tried to concentrate on the positive aspects. "The last two games against the Hungarian team (Gyori) led me to believe that we will be able to generate a good game and bring the dream closer", said Sousa," for us, the chances are always 50-50 and we believe that for our opponent to win they have to be much better than us".
Maccabi are expected to play with a similar lineup to the one that started in their 2-0 first leg victory over Gyori.
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Basel's manager Murat Yakin speaks at a press conference (blick) |
About 500 Maccabi fans are expected to turn up at the St. Jakob-Park in Basel for the match to cheer on the Yellows.
Ahead of the match it is quite obvious that if Maccabi do manage to beat Basel over the 2 legs it would be be a very big upset for the Swiss.
Maccabi's expected lineup:
GK: Juan Pablo Colinas, DF: Carlos Garcia, Eitan Tibi, Sheran Yeini (captain), Yoav Ziv, MF: Maharan Radi, Gal Alberman, Eran Zahavi, Omri Altman, FW: Barak Yitzhaki, Rade Prica.
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