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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Bloomfield Stadium - Tel Aviv Thursday 26 November 2020 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC Group I - Matchday 4 Villarreal CF Last updated 12/05/2021 12:09CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 13 Match officials 15 Legend 16 1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Villarreal CF Thursday 26 November 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Villarreal CF - Maccabi Tel-Aviv Bacca 4, 52, Álex 05/11/2020 GS 4-0 Villarreal FC Baena 71, Niño 81 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Villarreal CF - Maccabi Tel-Aviv 07/12/2017 GS 0-1 Villarreal Blackman 60 FC Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Villarreal 28/09/2017 GS 0-0 Netanya CF Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 1 4 Villarreal CF 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 4 1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - CD 1-1 Gadi Brumer 49; Vivar 25/09/1996 R1 Tel Aviv Tenerife agg: 3-4 Dorado 43 Vivar Dorado 45, CD Tenerife - Maccabi Tel-Aviv Santa Cruz de Kodro 57, Pinilla 67; 10/09/1996 R1 3-2 FC Tenerife Mizrahi 60, Nimni 88 (P) Villarreal CF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country Villarreal CF have not played against a club from their opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC 2 0 2 0 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 4 8 Villarreal CF 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 4 1 2 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Villarreal CF Thursday 26 November 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Match background Seasoned UEFA Europa League campaigners Villarreal have made their best ever start to a group, winning their first three games and scoring 12 goals in the process, but Matchday 4 hosts Maccabi Tel-Aviv will hope to put a brake on the Spanish club's charge to the knockout phase as they seek to consolidate their second place in Group I. • Villarreal defeated the Israeli side 4-0 at home on Matchday 3, striker Carlos Bacca taking his all-time tally of UEFA Europa League goals to 19 with a double before first European goals followed for teenagers Álex Baena and – on his continental debut – Fernando Niño. That win followed successes against Sivasspor (5-3 h) and Qarabağ (3-1 a), putting Villarreal three points clear of Maccabi, who had also won their first two games. Previous meetings • The clubs have been paired once before in UEFA competition, Maccabi drawing 0-0 at home on Matchday 2 of the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League before concluding their participation with an inconsequential 1-0 win at confirmed group winners Villarreal, Nick Blackman scoring the goal. • While Villarreal have faced no other Israeli clubs, Maccabi's first experience of Spanish opponents came in the 1996/97 UEFA Cup first round – their very first matches in the competition – when they lost 4-3 on aggregate to the Canary Islanders of Tenerife (2-3 a, 1-1 h). Maccabi have therefore drawn both of their previous home games against Spanish visitors. Form guide Maccabi • Maccabi made up for a disappointingly brief European campaign last season – eliminated on entry in the qualifying phase of both competitions – by retaining their Israeli league title in style to make it 23 championship wins in all. A third appearance in the UEFA Champions League group stage beckoned this term after new coach Giorgos Donis led them through qualifying ties against Riga (2-0 h), Sūduva (3-0 a) and Dinamo Brest (1-0 h), but they met their match in the play-offs, losing both legs to Salzburg (1-2 h, 1-3 a). • The Israeli champions are making their fifth appearance in the UEFA Europa League group stage. They have only progressed to the knockout phase once before, in 2013/14, and struggled in particular on their most recent appearance, in 2017/18, failing to score in their first five matches before signing off with that consolation win at Villarreal. • Maccabi have won only four of their 14 home games in the UEFA Europa League proper (D5 L5), though the 1-0 victory against Qarabağ on Matchday 1 ended a three-game sequence without a win or a goal. Villarreal • Villarreal finished fifth in the 2019/20 Spanish Liga to return to Europe after a season's absence and participate in the UEFA Europa League group stage for the eighth time. • The Spanish club have yet to finish outside the top two in their seven previous UEFA Europa League group campaigns and have gone through as section winners three times, including the most recent in 2018/19. Then they went unbeaten in collecting ten points to finish ahead of Rapid Wien, Rangers and Spartak Moskva before knocking out Sporting CP and Zenit and eventually crashing out to local rivals Valencia in the last eight (1-3 h, 0-2 a). Their best seasons in the competition were 2010/11 and 2015/16, when they reached the semi-finals. • Villarreal are on an unbeaten run of 12 UEFA Europa League group stage away matches (W4 D8), the last defeat on their travels at this juncture of the competition a 2-1 reverse at Rapid Wien on Matchday 1 in 2015/16. The 3-1 win against Qarabağ on Matchday 2 followed draws in all three games on the road in the 2018/19 group stage. Links and trivia • Villarreal striker Bacca is one game short of reaching 50 appearances in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final. • Maccabi summer signing Luis Hernández is a Spanish defender who has played in the Liga for Sporting Gijón and Málaga. Having started on Matchday 3, his record against Villarreal is now W2 D1 L3. • Hernández and Villarreal's Spanish international Pau Torres were central defensive partners for Málaga in the 2018/19 Segunda División. • Enric Saborit is another Spaniard in the Maccabi ranks. He played in his homeland for Athletic Club (2013–18) and on loan at Mallorca (2014/15). • Villarreal left-back Alberto Moreno was a member of the Spain side that won the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Israel. • Villarreal have played more matches in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final, than any other club. This is 3 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Villarreal CF Thursday 26 November 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv their 78th encounter – six more than second-placed Salzburg. • The 12 goals Villarreal have scored this season – the most in the 2020/21 group stage – have lifted their all-time total in the competition to a record 136, seven more than Liga rivals Sevilla, who are the only club to boast more UEFA Europa League wins (42 to 41). • Villarreal coach Unai Emery has overseen 82 matches in the UEFA Europa League proper – 27 more than any other coach. He led Sevilla to all three of their trophy successes from 2013/14 to 2015/16 and was also a losing finalist with Arsenal in 2018/19. 4 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Villarreal CF Thursday 26 November 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Team facts Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC Formed: 1906 Nickname: The Yellows UEFA club competition honours • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 23 (2020) Israeli Cup: 23 (2015) Ten-year record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2019/20: third qualifying round (having transferred from UEFA Champions League second qualifying round) 2018/19: play-offs 2017/18: group stage 2016/17: group stage 2015/16: UEFA Champions League group stage 2014/15: play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2013/14: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: group stage 2010/11: play-offs Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-0 twice, most recently v Željezničar 04/08/11, UEFA Europa League third qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-3 three times, most recently v Sūduva 26/08/20, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round • Heaviest home defeat 0-4: Maccabi v Chelsea 24/11/15, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1 twice, most recently v Beşiktaş 15/09/11, UEFA Europa League group stage 4-0 three times, most recently v Villarreal 05/11/20, UEFA Europa League group stage UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League • Biggest home win 6-0 twice, most recently v Željezničar (see above) • Biggest away win 0-3: Tirana v Maccabi 06/07/17, first qualifying round second leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-2: Maccabi v Slavia Praha 23/11/17, group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: Beşiktaş v Maccabi (see above) 4-0 twice, most recently v Villarreal (see above) Villarreal CF Formed: 1923 Nickname: El Submarino Amarillo (The Yellow Submarine) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Intertoto Cup (2): 2003, 2004 5 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Villarreal CF Thursday 26 November 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) None Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise) 2019/20: did not take part in UEFA competition 2018/19: quarter-finals 2017/18: round of 32 2016/17: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2015/16: semi-finals 2014/15: round of 16 2013/14: did not take part in UEFA competition 2012/13: did not take part in