Maccabi Tel Aviv and Celje will play at least 180 minutes of football to decide who advances from this Europa Conference League Play-offs battle. Get ready for the first 90 minutes!
These teams have little in common geographically as Celje have to travel 3200 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
It's no vacation for neither Maccabi Tel Aviv nor Celje as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Maccabi Tel Aviv form and stats
Maccabi Tel Aviv have reached this Europa Conference League stage through battling and winning against Petrocub and AEK Larnaca. Last season, Maccabi's Europa Conference League journey ended in the play-offs.3W-1D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Europa Conference League for Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Maccabi Tel Aviv are returning here after visiting Bnei Sakhnin in a Toto Cup match and winning with a 5-1 scoreline.
A home victory ahead of that game, as anticipated. The team were huge favourites against AEK Larnaca and won 1-0. Maccabi Tel Aviv are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 13 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 9, drew 3 and lost 1.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Ashdod are coming to town in three days.
Celje form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Neman Grodno and Vitoria Guimaraes in order to reach play-offs of Europa Conference League.Four points from two away games for Celje, meaning one draw and one victory in the 1. SNL so far. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa Conference League stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss both home and away.
Two away matches in a row for Celje, whose manager Pylypchuk could celebrate last time after the win against Domzale.
Before that, the Europa Conference League win away at Neman Grodno.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Celje manager Pylypchuk as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Olimpija.
{4 goals} so far away for Celje, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 3. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Matko 2 goals |  D. Zec 1 goals | L. Bobičanec 1 goals |
Maccabi Tel Aviv missing players
Celje missing players
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | Celje | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 9 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 6 | Won | W | 7 | 15 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 8 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | ||
| 44 | 15 | Scored | S | 18 | 48 | ||
| 21 | 5 | Conceded | C | 5 | 22 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 89% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 78% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 78% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 44% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 56% | 56% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 22% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 11% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 44% | BTTS | BTTS | 44% | 52% | ||
| 40% | 56% | Clean Sheets | C S | 56% | 48% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 11% | 8% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.9 | 4.6 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 4 | ||
| 1.9 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.3 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 13.7 | 18 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.3 | 10.8 | ||
| 6 | 6.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.6 | 4.8 | ||
| 29% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 40% | ||
| 6.4 | 5.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.7 | 10.8 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 3.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Celje | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 10 |
| 2 | Maribor | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| 3 | Olimpija | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 |
| 4 | Koper | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Aluminij | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Domzale | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 4 |
| 7 | Bravo | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 4 |
| 8 | Radomlje | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | -5 | 3 |
| 9 | Mura | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 3 |
| 10 | Rogaska | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | -9 | 1 |
