Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Europa League, 2011/12

Maccabi Haifa will be seeded in the Second Qualifying Round where they start and also the Third Qualifying Round and Playoff (Fourth Qualifying) Round if they get that far. Maccabi Haifa has a coefficient of 21.400 and their 19 possible Second Qualifying Round opponents have coefficients ranging from 2.549 for Dacia Chisinau of Moldova to 0.774 for Skerderbeu Korce of Albania. The first two seasons of the current qualifying round format the Israeli champions faced by FK Aktobe of Kazakhstan and Red Bull Salzburg of Austria but neither of those clubs won their leagues to qualify for the Champions League. http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/seedcl2011.html has seeding for the Champions League. If they reach the Group Stage, Maccabi Haifa's coefficient will be 29th or better among the 32 clubs there. Maccabi Haifa would have a better coefficient than at least one other champion who advanced through the qualifying rounds and two clubs that will start in the Group Stage, Napoli of Italy and Otelul Galati of Romania.

The draw for the first two qualifying rounds will be on 20 June and Maccabi Haifa will start their Second Qualifying Round on 12 or 13 July.

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

For the second consecutive season the champions of Israel will play the champion of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Second Qualifying Round. Borac Banja Luka has the third best coefficient of the seventeen unseeded clubs in the Second Qualifying Round.

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

Maccabi Haifa is preparing by playing in the Salzburgerland Cup. They lost 1:0 to Rapid Bucuresti, a club with a worse coefficient than Maccabi Haifa. Today Maccabi Haifa plays and will probably lose to Shakhtar Donetsk.

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

Maccabi Haifa will play their Second Qualifying Round first leg at home on Wednesday at 1:00 P.M. USA Eastern Time. I may or may not be at work and if I'm not working I will look for a stream online. Using the odds at http://www.oddsmeter.com/Matches/EU...League-11/Maccabi Haifa-Borac Banja Luka.aspx the first leg probabilities are:

Maccabi Haifa win: 80.4%
Draw: 12.4%
Borac Banja Luka win: 7.2%

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

Borac Banja Luka scored in the 24th minute and led until Amasha tied it in first half stoppage time. Amasha gave Maccabi Haifa the lead in the 71st minute, Yampolsky scored in the 72nd minute, Amasha scored his third goal of the game in the 73rd minute, and Golasa scored in the 80th minute for a 5:1 win. Maccabi Haifa had more shots on target, 9 to 2, and more corner kicks, 12 to 1.

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

If they advance to the Third Qualifying Round, Maccabi Haifa will play NK Maribor of Slovenia (4.224 coefficient) or F91 Dudelange of Luxembourg (1.524 coefficient).

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

http://www.domacifilmovi.us/ has the game. It requires Veetle which I downloaded before. If that doesn't work you can try another link from http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=123486&part=sports.

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

Borac Banja Luka leads 2:1 at halftime. Maccabi Haifa scored the goal in the middle. Although UEFA doesn't mention it, at the end of the first half Borac Banja Luka had a shot saved and then sent the rebound over the goal with the goalkeeper down. Borac Banja Luka must score at least 3 goals in the second half to have a chance to advance.

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

It's 2:2 in the 71st minute.

Edit: Borac Banja Luka won 3:2 so Maccabi Haifa won the aggregate 7:4 but got no coefficient points today.

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

http://www.sportsaim.com/musicvideo.php?vid=7ab3a2663 has highlights.

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

Here the first leg probabilities using my formula to convert the odds from http://www.liveoddsandscores.com/uefa-champions-league/fixtures into probabilities:

Maccabi Haifa win: 60.6%
Draw: 24.2%
Maribor win: 15.2%

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

Maccabi Haifa won 2-1 with goals in the 8th minute (penalty kick) and 70th minute. Maribor scored in the 27th minute.

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

UEFA wrote http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsle...tmatch/report/index.html#maccabi+edge+maribor.

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Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

Vered scored in the 10th minute for Maccabi Haifa and Marcos scored in the 32nd minute for Maribor. I watched starting about 1:50 into stoppage time. In the 6th and final minute of stoppage time, Marcos shot and goalkeeper Davidovitch tipped it over the goal. Maribor got a corner kick and shot the ball a little over the goal on the last play of the game. The 1-1 draw gave Maccabi Haifa a 3-2 aggregate win. The draw for the final qualifying round (Playoff Round) is on Friday.

Edit: Maccabi Haifa's possible opponents are:

Wisla Krakow (Poland)
Sturm Graz (Austria)
Genk (Belgium)
Viktoria Plzen (Czech Republic)
Malmo FF (Sweden)

 

Re: Maccabi Haifa [R], UEFA Champions League, 2011/12

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