Hapoel Beer-Sheva v Plzeň background
Hapoel Beer-Sheva, a bottom-placed bar in Group G, take on Viktoria Plzeň in Israel meaningful that this will be their final European tour of a season.
• Plzeň are by to a subsequent turn and will renovate FCSB and take tip mark if they win and a Romanian side destroy to do further during home to Lugano.
Previous meetings
• The teams’ initial encounter, on matchday two, brought a 3-1 home feat for Plzeň, goals from Milan Petržela, Jan Kopic and Marek BakoÅ¡ eclipsing Anthony Nwakaeme’s unique strike for Beer-Sheva.
• Plzeň have now won 4 of their 5 prior encounters with Israeli clubs, including both games in Israel.
• Beer-Sheva’s usually other meetings with a Czech side finished in defeats by Sparta Praha (1-0 home, 2-0 away) in final season’s UEFA Europa League organisation stage.
Form guide
• Beer-Sheva are but a feat in 4 European matches (D1 L3). However, they have won 4 of their 5 UEFA fixtures in Israel this season.
• Plzeň have not claimed a European divided win in their final 12 attempts (D5 L7). The final time they won divided in a UEFA organisation theatre was in Israel, 2-1 opposite Hapoel Tel-Aviv, on 25 Oct 2012. Including a UEFA Champions League, they have mislaid 9 of their 12 divided organisation fixtures given then.
• Beaten on divided goals by Maribor in a UEFA Champions League play-offs, Beer-Sheva are competing in a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a second true season, carrying done a turn of 32 on their entrance coming in 2016/17.
• Runners-up in final term’s Czech First League, Plzeň are contesting a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a third true season. With their 2-0 win during home to FCSB on matchday five, they have successfully avoided a third unbroken autumn rejecting and can demeanour brazen to a fourth turn of 32 appearance in a spring.
Links and trivia
• The tour from Plzen to Beer Sheva is around 2,700km.
• Beer-Sheva exaggerate Czech talent in a form of general striker Tomáš Pekhart, who played for Slavia Praha (2009), Jablonec (2010) and Sparta Praha (2011).
• Pekhart played with Plzeň’s Jan KovaÅ™Ãk during Slavia and Jablonec, and with Martin Zeman during Sparta.
• Chasing their fifth championship pretension in 8 seasons, Plzeň won their opening 14 Czech First League games before Teplice finished that run by holding them to a 0-0 pull on 26 November.
• Hapoel’s Loai Taha is accessible after a one-game ban.
• Suspended for subsequent diversion if booked: Marek Bakoš (Plzeň)
The coaches
• Appointed Beer-Sheva trainer in 2015, Barak Bakhar soon directed a bar to their initial pretension in 40 years, afterwards successfully shielded that climax in 2016/17. A defender, he spent his personification heyday during Hapoel Kiryat Shmona, whom he after coached.
• After stints as Czech Republic and Anji coach, Pavel Vrba rejoined Plzeň this year, carrying progressing directed a bar to dual championships between 2008 and 2013. Once a BanÃk Ostrava actor and coach, he carried a 2006/07 Slovak pretension as Žilina boss.