Hamrun Spartans vs Maccabi Haifa, the first leg of the first preliminary round of the Champions League, is scheduled for Tuesday, July 11 at 21:00 at the Centenary Stadium in Ta’Qal, live on superbet.ro (live stream).

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Hamrun Spartans won the Maltese title, the ninth in the club’s history, and have a squad valued by specialist websites at €4.5 million, the best player in the squad is Nemanja Krstic, a Serbian midfielder aged 28, brought in in the summer from FC Napredak (650.

000 euros). The team is coached by Luciano Zauri, a former Italy international (caped five caps) and a key player at Atalanta and Lazio in particular (with whom he won the Coppa Italia in 2004), who also coached for two terms at “Pescari”.

In Europe, Hamrun Spartans are almost non-existent: the Maltese have been eliminated in the first round every time, with one exception in 2023, when they reached the Conference League playoffs (lost to Partizan Belgrade, 3-3 at home and 1-4 away).

Hamrun Spartans played only one friendly match this summer, 2-0 away against Birkirkara.

Third-straight Israeli champions Maccabi Haifa are valued at €23.6m by specialist websites, with Dia Saba the highest-rated player at €3.5m, after stars Omer Atzili and Mohammed Abu Fani left the club. teams (Erik Shuranov from Nuremberg and Lior Rafaelov from Anderlecht were involved).

The coach of the team is Messie Dego, who moved from the youth team after the departure of Barak Bahar to “Red Star” Belgrade.

Maccabi Haifa have won 15 titles in Israel and reached the group stages of the UEFA Champions League three times, most recently in the last edition when they finished 4th behind Benfica, Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus (beat the Italians at home from 2). -0).

Before the start of the season, Maccabi Haifa played three friendly matches: 3-0 with U Cluj, 1-2 with Slavia Prague and 0-1 with Saint Petersburg.

Polten, all while studying in Austria.

The winner of the match “Hamrun Spartans” – “Maccabi Haifa” will meet the winner of the “double” “Farul Constanta” – “Sheriff” from Tiraspol in the second preliminary round of the Champions League.

Superbet offers odds of 1.38 on prediction 2: away win in the match Hamrun Spartans – Maccabi Haifa.

Hamrun Spartans vs Maccabi Haifa 2
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