Maccabi Haifa host the first leg in this deciding Champions League Play-offs game. Crvena Zvezda will try their very best to bring a solid result back to Stadion Rajko Mitić before the return leg in 9 days.
Crvena Zvezda have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 2700 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
The visiting Crvena Zvezda played their last game only four days ago, a Super Liga match.
Maccabi Haifa form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Champions League for Maccabi Haifa, as the manager Bakhar led his troops to eliminate Olympiakos Piraeus and Apollon, and reach the Play-offs. Last season, Maccabi's Champions League journey ended in the 1st qualifying round against Kairat.On the other hand, in the Champions League, Maccabi Haifa has performed like this (both home and away): 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
The regulars are hoping that Maccabi Haifa will strike back in this game, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Champions League fixture against Apollon.
This is expected to be a close game, with Maccabi Haifa perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Maccabi Haifa as a small favourite), we find 4 games. Maccabi Haifa has won 1 of these, drawn 2 and lost 1.
Maccabi are traveling soon after this match as the Ligat ha'Al match at Bnei Sakhnin awaits in three days.
Crvena Zvezda form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Pyunik in order to reach play-offs of Champions League. They also participated in Champions League last season. This ended in the 3rd qualifying round, when Sheriff drew the shortest straw.As the visiting team in Super Liga matches, Crvena Zvezda have produced an overall stat of 1-0-0 so far.
The followers enjoyed Crvena Zvezda's previous game versus Vozdovac, a 4-0 win played at home. As you can tell from the results above, Crvena Zvezda was very dominant against Vozdovac, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 4-0 (!) with Bukari, Pešić, Ivanić and Ben providing the goals.
hometeam won
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Crvena Zvezda manager Stankovic as the team has another away game coming up in only two days, this time against Cukaricki.
Crvena Zvezda have the goal stats of 2-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Pavkov 5 goals |  A. Katai 4 goals |  O. Bukari 3 goals |
Maccabi Haifa missing players
Crvena Zvezda missing players
| Maccabi Haifa | Crvena Zvezda | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 8 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 7 | 21 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | ||
| 38 | 23 | Scored | S | 20 | 76 | ||
| 19 | 6 | Conceded | C | 5 | 12 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 88% | 84% | ||
| 36% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 76% | ||
| 20% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 48% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 12% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | ||
| 52% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | ||
| 6.2 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.3 | 6.8 | ||
| 3.2 | 2.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 2.9 | ||
| 2.4 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.8 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.5 | 13.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.2 | 13.7 | ||
| 6 | 6.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.2 | 6.6 | ||
| 27% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 46% | 49% | ||
| 8.6 | 6.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 4.5 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 1.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 2 | ||
| 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 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| 3 | Vojvodina | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 11 |
| 4 | Javor Ivanjica | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 5 | Backa Topola | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 6 | Novi Pazar | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 7 | Spartak Subotica | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 8 | Vozdovac | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 9 | Kolubara | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 10 | Partizan | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 | Radnicki Kragujevac | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 5 |
| 12 | Mladost Novi Sad | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -6 | 4 |
| 13 | Mladost Lucani | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 2 |
| 14 | Napredak | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -4 | 2 |
| 15 | Radnicki Nis | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | -9 | 2 |
| 16 | Radnik Surdulica | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | -9 | 2 |
