The head coach of Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv, Zarko Lazetic, shared his expectations for the second match against Kyiv’s Dynamo in the Europa League playoff qualification round.
Zarko Lazetic"As in every game, tomorrow we will try to win again. We could have been in a better position in terms of the final score of the first match, but Dynamo also had chances towards the end of the match thanks to set pieces — they could have reduced the score to 3:2 or 3:3. Therefore, we will try to show tomorrow that we are ready.
The absence of Wesley Patati in the first game? If we hadn’t beaten Dynamo, everyone would have said that the coach lost his mind for not using him. This was a decision we all made. I have said many times that I prefer players who are 100 percent committed to their work and who are not surrounded by media noise — this was a collective decision," quotes Lazetic from Sports.walla.co.il.
