Maccabi Tel-Aviv v Slavia Praha background
Eliminated after 4 matches though a idea to their name, Maccabi Tel-Aviv have usually honour left to play for as they horde a Slavia Praha side fervent to rebound behind from a home better by Villarreal that forsaken them from second to third in UEFA Europa League Group A.
Previous meetings
• The sides met for a initial time in UEFA foe on matchday one in Prague, also Slavia’s lass tie opposite Israeli opponents, and the home side available a 1-0 win pleasantness of Czech general striker Tomáš Necid’s 12th-minute strike.
• In their usually other assembly with Czech opposition, Maccabi separated Viktoria Plzeň in a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League third subordinate round, losing 2-1 during home though winning 2-0 divided en track to reaching a organisation stage.
Form guide
• Unbeaten in 9 European fixtures (W8 D1) going into this organisation stage, Maccabi have taken usually one indicate from their 4 fixtures given and have not found a net in any of them. No organisation has ever left by a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre though scoring a goal.
• Czech champions Slavia are though a win in 20 UEFA divided fixtures (D10 L10) given a 1-0 feat during Ajax in a 2007/08 UEFA Champions League qualifier.
• Maccabi have progressed from a initial subordinate turn to a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre for a second true season. They were joining and crater runners-up in Israel final term.
• Maccabi are competing in their fourth UEFA Europa League organisation stage. Only once previously, in 2013/14, did they swell to a turn of 32.
• Edged out by APOEL in this season’s UEFA Champions League play-offs, Slavia done it by a UEFA Cup organisation theatre in 2005/06, though they missed a cut in 2008/09 and also fell brief in their usually prior UEFA Europa League organisation debate (2009/10).
Links and trivia
• The tour from Prague to Tel Aviv is around 2,600km.
• Maccabi are one of 3 teams to have come all a approach from initial subordinate turn to organisation theatre this season, along with Crvena zvezda and Skënderbeu.
• Slavia’s Ruslan Rotan played for Dnipro in their 2015 UEFA Europa League final better by Sevilla; goalkeeper Jan Lastůvka was an new surrogate for a Ukrainian side.
• Slavia screw Přemysl Kovář played in Israel with Hapoel Haifa (2014–16).
• Slavia players Michael Ngadeu-Ngadju and Ruslan Mingazov both applaud their birthday on a day of a game.
• Slavia’s Jan BoÅ™il is incompetent for this confront after collecting a yellow label on any of a final 3 matchdays.
• Suspended from subsequent compare if booked: Nick Blackman (Maccabi).
The coaches
• Jordi Cruyff took over as Maccabi trainer in 2017 after 5 years as a club’s sporting director. The son of Dutch good Johan Cruyff, he played for Barcelona and Manchester United and reached a 2001 UEFA Cup final with Alavés. He also played for a Netherlands during EURO ’96.
• A Czechoslovak joining runner-up in 1992/93 as a Slavia midfielder, Jaroslav Šilhavý returned to a bar after a 22-year deficiency in Sep 2016. Having won a Czech climax as Liberec trainer in 2011/12, he triumphed again with Slavia in 2017.