It's game one of two in the Champions League as Maccabi Tel Aviv host Salzburg. This is a Play-offs fixture played over two legs and nothing will be decided tonight.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
It's quite the trip for Salzburg when visiting Maccabi as the cities are 3500 kilometers apart.
Maccabi Tel Aviv form and stats
Maccabi Tel Aviv have not come this way in the Champions League without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Dinamo Brest, Riga and Sūduva. Last season, Maccabi's Champions League journey ended in the 2nd qualifying round.0 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Maccabi Tel Aviv have to build on here at Winner Stadium in the Ligat ha'Al. This match is a Champions League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in this competition.
Maccabi Tel Aviv's previous game was a Champions League match also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Dinamo Brest. The home side are looking to build on that result. Before that, Maccabi Tel Aviv played out a Ligat ha'Al draw 2-2 when visiting Bnei Yehuda.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Maccabi as they have a new game in only four days, a Ligat ha'Al match thankfully also at home. Maccabi Netanya are visiting.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Maccabi Tel Aviv at home in the league. 1 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Salzburg form and stats
They also participated in Champions League last season. This ended in the group stage.The story so far for the visiting team on their Tipico Bundesliga travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Things are running smoothly for Salzburg who hasn't tasted defeat in their last twelve matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Rheindorf Altach. Salzburg have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Salzburg play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting Wolfsberger AC. Before that one, a nice away victory 10-0 at Schwarz-Wei Bregenz.
Salzburg have the goal stats of 3-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Kandil 1 goals |  I. Shechter 1 goals |   P. Daka 1 goals |
Maccabi Tel Aviv missing players
Salzburg missing players
| Maccabi Tel Aviv | Salzburg | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 11 | Won | W | 6 | 16 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 7 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | ||
| 45 | 26 | Scored | S | 38 | 78 | ||
| 11 | 5 | Conceded | C | 9 | 26 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 89% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 89% | 92% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 89% | 76% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 78% | 64% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 56% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 31% | BTTS | BTTS | 56% | 56% | ||
| 68% | 69% | Clean Sheets | C S | 44% | 44% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 11% | 4% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.4 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 254 | 155 | Total Shots | T S | 168 | 400 | ||
| 118 | 74 | Shots on Target | S O | 72 | 177 | ||
| 38% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 53% | 44% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Maccabi Haifa | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Bnei Yehuda | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Maccabi Netanya | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
| 6 | Beitar Jerusalem | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Ashdod | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| 9 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 10 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 11 | Hapoel Haifa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 12 | Hapoel Hadera | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 0 |
| 14 | Bnei Sakhnin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | -10 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rapid Wien | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Salzburg | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Ried | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | LASK Linz | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Hartberg | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Rheindorf Altach | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | St. Polten | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Sturm Graz | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Wattens | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Austria Wien | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Wolfsberger AC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Admira | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 0 |