Alongside Maccabi Haifa’s big celebrations after securing promotion to the group stage of the Champions League, Hapoel Beer Sheva is preparing for the return match against Craiova as part of the playoffs for promotion to the group stage of the Conference League. Eliniv Breda’s team ended the away game in Romania with a 1:1 score and moved the decision to the return match that will be held in Turner tomorrow (Thursday, 20:00, Sport4). In the Romanian media, they are also preparing for the game and we interviewed the former manager of Hapoel Acre, Danielle Stancho.
“At Hapoel Be’er Sheva they are afraid,” Stancho said. “In the Israeli league, they decided to postpone games of the three teams playing in Europe. Strangely, Maccabi Tel Aviv did not want to, but preferred to play after beating Nice in the Conference League. The champion Maccabi Haifa, who played in the Champions League against Red Star Belgrade, also postponed a league game. Sheva takes the game seriously.”
In the media in Romania, quite a few people dealt with the matter of postponing the games of other rivals who face Romanian teams in Europe. Cluj’s extroverted owner Gigi Bacali stated that the two Romanian teams competing in the Conference League will be in the group stage: “I don’t like to talk about other teams, but from what I’ve seen – the two Romanian teams will be in the group stage.”