Maccabi Haifa’s Champions League play-off first leg match against Young Boys Bern is scheduled for Wednesday, August 23 at 10:00 p.m. at the Sammy Ofer Stadium and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 3, Orange. Sport 3 and Prima Sport 3.
Maccabi Haifa, who entered the competition from the first preliminary round, and Young Boys Bern, who qualified directly for the play-offs, meet in one of the most balanced “doubles” of the Champions League group stage (the two teams have never met between myself earlier).
The champion of Israel “Maccabi Haifa” played all three previous rounds, in which they alternately beat the champion of Malta “Hamrun Spartans” 4-0 (d) and 2-1 (a), the champion of Moldova “Sherif”. Tiraspol, 0-1 (d) and 4-1 (a), and Slovakian champions, Slovan Bratislava, 2-1 (d) and 3-1 (a).
Domestically, Maccabi Haifa won the Israeli Super Cup, 3-1 against Beitar Jerusalem at home (22 July), and qualified for the League Cup final after 2-0 away to Maccabi Petah Tikva (19 August), given that the Championship starts on August 26.
Maccabi Haifa, coached by Messiaen Dego, a 37-year-old Ethiopian-born Israeli who made the switch from youth after Barak Bahar’s departure to Red Star, have reached the Champions League groups three times, most recently last season. , when he finished in 4th place behind Benfica, Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus.
Swiss champions Young Boys Bern made their Champions League play-off debut this season and progressed to the group stage twice in their history, in 2018-2019 and 2020-21, finishing 4th each time.
The start to the current edition of the domestic league has not been quite the way Young Boys Bern expected, with two wins and two draws (eight points) after four stages, with their last outing a 5-0 away win at third division side Breteinrein in the first round of the Swiss Cup.
From 2022, “Young Boys Bern” is coached by former international player Raphael Vicky (75 matches and one goal for the national team), who as a player (supporting midfielder) spent his career in Germany, Hamburg and Werder Bremen, one of the “seconds” is the Romanian Zoltan Kadar (seven tackles for the “tricolors”), a former player of Cluj and Dynamo.
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