2024-03-07 08:52:02
Maccabi Tel Aviv will meet Olympiakos tonight (19:45, Sport2) in the first game of the round of 16 of the Conference League. The yellows will be hosted in Greece for a historic match for them and will try to get a good result for the return leg. Today (Thursday) Enrique Saborit, the Spanish defender of the Yellows who is expected to start the game, was interviewed by the Spanish “AS” and provided interesting quotes about the team and also about Eran Zahavi.
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“We are very excited because Israeli clubs don’t win these kinds of games every day,” said Enrique Savorit, the Spanish footballer who played the most games in Maccabi’s uniform (228). “We are playing against an opponent who is stronger than us on paper, but we have great ambition and desire.”
On the opponent: “We can’t choose who to meet, but it’s an attractive draw. I like Olympiakos with its crowd. There is an electrifying atmosphere in its stadium. We could also meet Ajax, which is also an interesting opponent, but it will be very nice against the Greeks as well.” .
About Eran Zahavi, the stopper said: “I told Zahavi to retire now and make room for young people, but he replied: ‘How will I retire if I don’t stop scoring?’. I don’t know how he does it, but he always finds the net.”
On hosting the games outside Israel: “It was a shame for us when we couldn’t play in front of our crowd in the group stage. We celebrated on the field and in the dressing room, and after that we flew back to Israel. The situation was a little more tense than now. In the league we play in Tel Aviv and in front of a full stadium, but in Europe They still cannot host in Israel. Now being an Israeli outside the country is not an easy thing.”
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