Champions League: Get ready for the second leg of the Crvena Zvezda - Maccabi Haifa clash

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Competition: Europe Champions League
Competition: Tue 23.August
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Rajko Mitić (55538 seats)

It's time to decide the outcome of the Champions League Play-offs meeting between Crvena Zvezda and Maccabi Haifa. Get ready for the match with this full betting preview!

It's quite the trip for Maccabi Haifa when visiting Crvena Zvezda as the cities are 2700 kilometers apart.

Both squads have had sufficient rest since their last match. Let's look for an in-your-face game!

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Crvena Zvezda form and stats

This is not the first game this season in the Champions League for Crvena Zvezda, as the manager Stankovic led his troops to eliminate Pyunik, and reach the Play-offs. Last season their Champions League adventure ended in the 3rd qualifying round against Sheriff.

4 victories, 0 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what Crvena Zvezda have to build on here at Stadion Rajko Mitić in the Super Liga. 2W-0D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for Crvena Zvezda.

The followers hope that Crvena will fight back in this match, putting things right after the 2-3 away defeat in the Champions League fixture against Maccabi Haifa. The attacking player Pešić was named "man of the match" for Crvena Zvezda with a rating of 7.35/10. Pešić scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Previous to that game, a Super Liga home match hosting Vozdovac in a game that was won 4-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Crvena Zvezda handle that role? We have found 7 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Crvena as they have a new game in only four days, a Super Liga match thankfully also at home. Javor Ivanjica are visiting.

It's goals goals goals for Crvena Zvezda who have scored 19 goals from 4 league home games.

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Maccabi Haifa form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated Olympiakos Piraeus and Apollon in order to reach play-offs of Champions League. Maccabi Haifa was sent out of Champions League in the 1st qualifying round last season, when Kairat turned out to be too strong.

When we have look at the Champions League statistics, we find 3W-1D-1L. This is both home and away.

The followers enjoyed Maccabi Haifa's previous fixture versus Crvena Zvezda, a Champions League win (3-2) played at home. Attacker Pierrot got a player rating of 8.31 in the game. "Man of the match" Pierrot scored two goals.

After this away game Maccabi return home for a Ligat ha'Al game against Maccabi Netanya. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Head 2 Head

The participants have met each other already this season, with the final score Maccabi Haifa - Crvena Zvezda 3-2 logged in the official records. One of the stars has been Pierrot with 2 goals scored against Crvena Zvezda in these 1 games.

Top Goalscorers

CrvenaM. Pavkov
M. Pavkov
5 goals
Crvena ZvezdaA. Katai
A. Katai
4 goals
Crvena ZvezdaO. Bukari
O. Bukari
3 goals

Crvena Zvezda missing players

Maccabi Haifa missing players

Crvena Zvezda Maccabi Haifa
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 16   Played P   12 25
20 13   Won W   5 14
2 2   Drew D   2 5
3 1   Lost L   5 6
76 54   Scored S   14 40
14 6   Conceded C   11 19
96% 94%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
84% 81%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   58% 72%
76% 75%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   33% 36%
52% 62%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   17% 24%
32% 38%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   0% 4%
40% 31%   BTTS BTTS   17% 28%
56% 62%   Clean Sheets C S   42% 52%
8% 12%   Failed to Score F T   42% 20%
 
6.5 6.9   Corners for (avg) C F   6.1 5.9
3 2.6   Corners against (avg) C A   4.1 3.3
1.7 1.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   3.2 2.4
0 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
13.2 14   Shots (avg) S (   9.6 11.9
6.3 6.4   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.9 6
52% 54%   Goal Efficiency G E   25% 28%
 
6.4 6.4   Shots against (avg) S A   11.3 8.6
2 1.9   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.3 3

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Crvena Zvezda 5 5 0 0 21 1 4 4 0 0 19 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 20 15
2 Cukaricki 6 4 1 1 9 6 3 2 0 1 4 4 3 2 1 0 5 2 3 13
3 Vojvodina 6 3 3 0 10 3 3 1 2 0 2 1 3 2 1 0 8 2 7 12
4 Novi Pazar 7 4 0 3 9 7 3 2 0 1 4 3 4 2 0 2 5 4 2 12
5 Javor Ivanjica 7 3 2 2 10 11 4 2 0 2 4 7 3 1 2 0 6 4 -1 11
6 Backa Topola 6 2 3 1 7 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 4 2 2 0 7 1 5 9
7 Spartak Subotica 6 2 3 1 8 5 3 2 1 0 7 2 3 0 2 1 1 3 3 9
8 Radnicki Kragujevac 7 2 3 2 4 5 3 1 1 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 2 -1 9
9 Kolubara 6 2 3 1 7 10 4 2 2 0 7 5 2 0 1 1 0 5 -3 9
10 Partizan 5 2 2 1 8 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 8 4 4 8
11 Vozdovac 6 2 2 2 2 7 3 2 1 0 2 0 3 0 1 2 0 7 -5 8
12 Mladost Lucani 7 1 3 3 10 12 4 1 2 1 7 7 3 0 1 2 3 5 -2 6
13 Mladost Novi Sad 6 1 1 4 3 10 3 0 0 3 0 7 3 1 1 1 3 3 -7 4
14 Napredak 6 0 2 4 3 8 3 0 2 1 2 4 3 0 0 3 1 4 -5 2
15 Radnicki Nis 6 0 2 4 6 16 3 0 1 2 4 9 3 0 1 2 2 7 -10 2
16 Radnik Surdulica 6 0 2 4 3 13 3 0 2 1 1 2 3 0 0 3 2 11 -10 2

Read more about Champions League

The UEFA Champions League is the major international club football tournament in Europe. The competition begins already in late June and lasts for almost a year, ending with the final played in late May or early June. After several qualifying rounds the group stage is where the “true” Champions League begins for many viewers. Eight groups with four teams each battle through six rounds to qualify for the knock-out phase. Then a round of 16, quarterfinals and then semifinals needs to be won before a place in the final is secured.