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Last Thursday, the Racing Club Strasbourg celebrated its return to the European Cup after 13 years. In the 2005/06 season, the Alsatians had reached the international business for the last time and then still participated in the UEFA Cup. In the group stage, the RC took first place in front of teams like AS Roma, Basel and Red Star Belgrade. In the end it went to the round of 16, where Strasbourg met again on FC Basel and retired. Also this year the Blues want to reach the group stage. After the 3-1 first-leg win against Maccabi Haifa at least the chances of reaching the third qualifying round are pretty good. But up to the Europa League groups are waiting for the winner two more hurdles.
The Maccabi Haifa Football Club has already reached a group stage four times in Europe, twice in the Champions League and twice in the Europa League. But the last international successes of the Israelis are already from the season 2013/14. In the second qualifying round of the Europa League, Haifa’s side hope for the away goal this season, with Maccabi even taking the lead in the first leg.
If you look at the betting market “Who’s Coming Forward?”, Maccabi Haifa Vs. Strasbourg, the odds still clear for the French. Only on the return match the bookmakers expect a balanced game. The betting base sees the guests after the first leg win in the second leg forward and sets in the duel Maccabi Haifa.
Maccabi Haifa:
With 12 championships and six cup wins, the Maccabi Haifa Football Club is number three in Israel behind Maccabi Tel Aviv and their city rivals Hapoel. The last cup victory comes from 2016, the last championship title was in the 2010/11 season. In the 2002/03 season Maccabi was the first Israeli team to qualify for the group stage of the Champions League.
At that time, the Israelis were third behind Manchester United and Bayer Leverkusen and before Olympiacos Piraeus and were allowed to continue playing in the UEFA Cup. There was then final stop in the third round against AEK Athens. Haifa made it to the Champions League group stage a second time in 2009/10, but finished fourth only behind Bordeaux, Bayern München and Juventus. In the 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons Maccabi also reached twice the Europa League group stage, but could never reach the next round there.
The biggest international successes of the club were reaching the quarter-finals at the Cup Winners’ Cup in the 1998/99 season (out against Lokomotiv Moscow) and the round of 16 in the UEFA Cup in the season 2006/07 (against Espanyol Barcelona).
Last year, the club from the port city runner-up in Ligat ha’Al, proud 31 points behind champion Maccabi Tel Aviv. At home Haifa took only 25 of the 58 seasonal points. Focusing on this statistic, Maccabi Haifa is in the match. Strasbourg not justify a forecast on a success of the home side.
In the Europa League season 2019/20 the team of coach Marco Balbul had already ran in the first qualifying round and was able to prevail there with 2: 0 and 3: 2 against the NS Mura from Slovenia. The most important man was Yuval Ashkenazi with three goals. The new league season in Israel begins on 24th August.
Since July 21, traditionally, the League Cup is held in Israel as a preparation tournament. Here Haifa failed already in the playoff for the group stage with 0: 1 to Hapoel Be’er Sheva and may now only deny the game for seventh place. Habashi misses the second leg after being sent off in the first leg. Whether Shua can run, is still uncertain.
Strasbourg:
Due to great financial difficulties, the Racing Club Strasbourg crashed in the 2011/12 season from the fifth division. In 2012, the former football professional Marc Keller, who had played for KSC and West Ham United among others, took over the club as president and led the Alsatians slowly back up. With the second division championship in the 2016/17 season Strasbourg celebrated their return to Ligue 1. In the first year in the first division led coach Thierry Laurey the team in 15th place.
In the last season, the Blue never got into the danger of relegation and made it to eleventh place in the end. It was especially good for the RC in the League Cup. At the end of March, Strasbourg won the Coupe de la Ligue for the third time after 1997 and 2005. After scoreless 120 minutes, the team of Coach Laurey prevailed 4-1 on penalties against Guingamp.
Before the new season, which begins in Ligue 1 on 10 August, Strasbourg could hold the squad of the preseason as far as possible. While Anthony Goncalves (SM Caen), Pablo Martinez (Nimes Olympique) and Yoann Salmier (ES Troyes) left the club, Alexander Djiku (SM Caen), Jean-Ricner Bellegarde (RC Lens) and Lamine Koné (Sunderland) joined the team.
The first leg against Maccabi was for the Alsatians the first competitive game of the new season. The home side were the better team throughout the season, but had to stand at temperatures of 40 degrees just before the half from scratch the gap. But shortly thereafter Strasbourg was able to compensate for a penalty and a red card against Haifa. In the second round, the coach brought due to the defeat striker Adrien Thomasson for full-back Ismael Aaneba. The RC played only on the score of the guests and won the game in the end 3-1.
With a goal shot ratio of 22: 4 the Alsatians missed in the end even a higher success. The use of Aaneba on Thursday is still uncertain. Kenny Lala will miss out on injury while captain Stefan Mitrovic is back in action. Also missing are Lebo Mothiba, Anthony Caci and Jeremy Grimm.
Maccabi Haifa vs Strasbourg head to head matches
25.07.19 EL Strasbourg Maccabi Haifa 3 : 1