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Monday, November 18, 2013

Football: Israel U-21's face Portugal tonight in a vital Euro 2015 qualifier

Israel U-21's players celebrate during Friday's 4-1 victory
Tonight (at 19:30) Israel's U-21's will take on Portugal at the Hamoshava Stadium in their 5th Euro 2015 qualifying group 8 match following their 4-1 victory over Norway on Friday. The Blue and White enter tonight's game with an amazing 3.5 goals scored per game average in the current campaign but nevertheless were defeated 3-0 when they visited Portugal last month.
"We are not scared but we are realistic and we are self-confident", said Israel U-21's manager, Michael Nees, "If we bring our performance we have a good chance".
Munas Dabbur, who scored a hat-trick in Friday's win, added: "It will be a hard and interesting game, and that doesn't mean that it was easy against Norway. Portugal are a simply amazing team. We will come focused in order do what we need to do. I believe in the team".
Israel are expected to lineup tonight in a 4-4-2 formation with just 2 changes from Friday with Tal Khila switching Edi Gotlieb in defense and Ofir Mizrachi coming in for Gil Yitzhak in attack.

Israel U-21's expected lineup:
GK: Barak Levi, DF: Eli Dasa, Tal Khila, Ben Vehava, Taleb Twatiha, MF: Gadi Kinda, Lotem Zino, Roi Kehat, Omri Altman, FW: Ofir Mizrahi, Munas Dabbur

Group 8

PPts
Israel Israel49
Portugal Portugal39
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan54
FYROM FYROM34
Norway Norway53



(The game will be live on Sport5 from 19:30)


 

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