Sammy Ofer hosted the second leg between Maccabi and Strasbourg.
Maccabi needed to win by two goals to invert the score from the first leg (3:1 to Strasbourg) and qualify for the third qualifying round of the Europa League. Marco Balbul made two changes in the line-up from the 11 who started in France. Alysson Dos Santos and Sun Menachem replaced Ayad Habashi and Ernest Mabouka. More than 23,000 fans attended the match.
Maccabi’s line-up: Haimov, Meir, Arad, Dos Santos, Gershon, Menachem, Plakuschenko, Lavi (c), Ashkenazi, Rukavytsya, Shua.
Kick off
8’ Plakuschenko gets the ball from Shua and shoots from 25 meters straight to the keeper's hand.
17’ Strasbourg’s first attack ends with a header goal by Ajorque. 0:1 to Strasbourg
21’ Yellow card: Sun Menachem
25’ Yarden Shua leaves the goalkeeper behind with a great personal move and scores. 1:1
40’ Rukavytsya gets a long ball from Dos Santos and completes the comeback! 2:1 to Maccabi.
Second half
62’ Guy Haimov saves three consecutive attempts in an amazing demonstration.
63’ Substitution for Maccabi: Dolev Haziza in, Nikita Rukavytsya out.
67’ Substitution for Maccabi: Muhammad Awad in, Yarden Shua out.
72’ Substitution for Maccabi: Mohammed Abu Fani in, Maxim Plakuschewnko out.
79’ Sun Menachem delivers a good cross towards Raz Meir who misses the target.
81’ A great cross by Haziza reaches Awad but his header goes above the crossbar.
89’ Awad gets the ball at the edge of the box and shoots to the close post, the ball misses the target by inches.
90’ 5 minutes stoppage time.
Final whistle: Maccabi wins 2:1 but fails to achieve a place in the next qualifying round.