UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2015/16 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Sammy Ofer Stadium - Haifa Tuesday 24 November 2015 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC Group G - Matchday 5 Chelsea FC Last updated 10/03/2016 14:12CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 5 Head coach 7 Match officials 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 13 Group Standings 15 Team facts 17 Legend 19 1 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Chelsea FC Tuesday 24 November 2015 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Willian 15, Oscar Chelsea FC - Maccabi Tel-Aviv 16/09/2015 GS 4-0 London 45+4 (P), Diego Costa FC 58, Fàbregas 78 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 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 Chelsea FC 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Colautti 90+1; Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Stoke City 03/11/2011 GS 1-2 Tel Aviv Whitehead 51, Crouch FC 64 Stoke City FC - Maccabi Tel-Aviv Jones 12, Jerome 24, 20/10/2011 GS 3-0 Stoke-on-Trent FC Shotton 32 Chelsea FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Chelsea FC - Hapoel Tel-Aviv 1-1 01/11/2001 R2 London Zola 64; Osterc 35 FC agg: 1-3 Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC - Chelsea Gershon 87 (P), 18/10/2001 R2 2-0 Tel Aviv FC Cleşcenco 90+4 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 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 1 9 Chelsea FC 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 5 3 2 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Chelsea FC Tuesday 24 November 2015 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa Match background Chelsea FC's late win against FC Dynamo Kyiv on 4 November has made the London team favourtes for one of the qualifying places in UEFA Champions League Group G and they will be seeking another victory against point-less Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC. • With seven points, three behind leaders FC Porto, Chelsea will qualify for the knockout rounds if they win and Dynamo fail to do the same in Portugal. • The Blues eased to a 4-0 victory in the Stamford Bridge game on matchday one. Willian and Oscar scored to leave Maccabi trailing at half-time – the latter from the spot after Eden Hazard had blazed an early penalty over the bar – with Diego Costa and Cesc Fàbregas adding two more after the break. • The teams had not met on the competitive stage before this season. Maccabi coach Slaviša Jokanović faces one of his former clubs, as does Israeli defender Tal Ben Haim. Match background Maccabi • The Tel Aviv club, back in the group stage after 11 years, followed the Chelsea reverse by going down 2-0 at home to Dynamo. Losing home and away to FC Porto leaves them as the only side in the competition without a point. • Despite Eran Zahavi's seven goals in the qualifying rounds, Maccabi won only two of their six fixtures and have now lost six of their ten UEFA Champions League matches this season. • The last time Maccabi were in this elite company, in 2004/05, they had the misfortune of sharing a group with three former winners: FC Bayern München, Juventus and AFC Ajax. • They finished in fourth place but some consolation came at home with a defeat of Ajax and a draw with Juve. • Maccabi's only previous meetings with English opponents brought two defeats against Stoke City FC (1-2 home, 0-3 away) in the 2011/2012 UEFA Europa League group stage. Chelsea • On matchday two they succumbed 2-1 at Porto and then took four points from Dynamo (0-0 away, 2-1 home). • Last year, when they won their group for the ninth time in their last 12 campaigns, the Blues remained unbeaten but went out on away goals in the round of 16 with a 2-2 home draw against Paris Saint-Germain after the first leg ended 1-1 in France. • Chelsea's only previous visit to Israel was a 2-0 loss at Hapoel Tel-Aviv FC in the 2001/02 UEFA Cup second round, preceding a 1-1 home draw. Jokanović was in the lineup in Tel Aviv, while John Terry played in both matches. • José Mourinho lifted the UEFA Champions League with Porto (2004) and FC Internazionale Milano (2010) and is bidding to become the first head coach to win the European Cup with three teams. Coach and player links • Ben Haim had a year at Chelsea in 2007/08, beginning the season under Mourinho before the latter's departure in September. He had two UEFA Champions League outings and partnered Terry in defence. Overall, he made 17 starts plus six appearances as a substitute. • Jokanović started 28 games in a two-year spell and made a further 25 appearances from the bench. • Asmir Begović conceded four goals against Israel in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifiers as Bosnia and Herzegovina lost 3- 0 in Haifa on 16 November 2014 before winning 3-1 in Zenica on 12 June 2015. Three of the goals were scored by Maccabi players: Tal Ben Chaim, Gil Vermouth and Zahavi. • John Obi Mikel and Nosa Igiebor have played together for Nigeria. Match facts Maccabi • Ben Haim and Ben Chaim are both a booking away from a ban. • Maccabi have won six of their last seven Ligat HaAl fixtures. • After only scoring once in September, for Israel in a UEFA EURO 2016 qualifier against Andorra, Zahavi has since managed eight goals in ten outings for club and country. • Zahavi converted a penalty in the 3-0 success at Hapoel Haifa FC on Saturday – his 100th Israeli league goal. His next goal for Maccabi will be his 100th for the club. Nosa Igiebor and Avraham Rikan each scored their first of the season. 3 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Chelsea FC Tuesday 24 November 2015 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa Chelsea • Costa's goal in the 1-0 home victory over Norwich City FC on Saturday was his first in eight appearances for club and country. • Chelsea succumbed 1-0 to Stoke City FC on 7 November – their third successive top-flight reverse. They last lost three Premier League games in a row in October 1999. • Mourinho has suffered seven league defeats in a season for the first time as a manager. • Chelsea have conceded at least two goals in nine of their 13 Premier League fixtures this term, 23 in total. They had let in the same number in 2014/15 after 29 rounds. 4 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Chelsea FC Tuesday 24 November 2015 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa Squad list Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Daniel Lifshitz ISR 24/04/1988 27 - - - - - 1 - - - 4 - 41 Sahar Hasson ISR 24/04/1996 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 55 Haviv Ohayon ISR 17/08/1998 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 95 Predrag Rajković SRB 31/10/1995 20 - - - 4 - 9 - 4 - 6 - Defenders 2 Eli Dasa ISR 03/12/1992 22 - - - 1 - 7 - 1 - 3 - 3 Yuval Shpungin ISR 03/04/1987 28 - 5 - 1 - 6 - 1 - 15 - 14 Yoav Ziv ISR 16/03/1981 34 - 2 - - - 2 - - - 27 1 18 Eytan Tibi ISR 16/11/1987 28 - 4 - 4 - 9 - 4 - 26 - 20 Omri Ben Harush ISR 07/03/1990 25 - 5 - 3 - 7 - 3 - 22 - 23 Sean Goldberg ISR 13/06/1995 20 - - - - - - - - - - - 26 Tal Ben Haim ISR 31/03/1982 33 * 6 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 42 - 27 Oz Raly ISR 22/12/1987 27 - - - - - 2 - - - 14 - 31 Carlos García ESP 29/04/1984 31 - 3 - 2 - 9 2 2 - 22 - Midfielders 6 Gal Alberman ISR 17/04/1983 32 - 6 - 4 - 10 1 4 - 36 1 7 Eran Zahavi ISR 25/07/1987 28 - 5 7 4 1 11 10 10 4 57 21 15 Dor Miha ISR 02/03/1992 23 - 6 - 3 - 7 - 3 - 29 2 16 Shlomy Azulay ISR 30/03/1990 25 - - - - - 2 - - - - - 17 Daniel Einbinder ISR 16/02/1989 26 - - - - - - - - - 15 - 22 Avraham Rikan ISR 10/09/1988 27 - 4 - 4 - 9 1 4 - 14 1 24 Nikola Mitrović SRB 02/01/1987 28 - 5 - 4 - 10 - 4 - 30 - 28 Gil Vermouth ISR 05/08/1985 30 - 3 - 3 - 10 - 9 - 52 4 29 Suhail Armaly ISR 10/01/1996 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 33 Dan Glazer ISR 20/09/1996 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 40 Nosa Igiebor NGA 09/11/1990 25 - 6 2 2 - 3 1 2 - 20 3 42 Dor Peretz ISR 17/05/1995 20 - 2 - 4 - 9 1 4 - 6 - Forwards 9 Eden Ben Basat ISR 08/09/1986 29 - 4 - 2 - 8 1 2 - 10 1 10 Barak Itzhaki ISR 25/09/1984 31 - 5 1 2 - 7 2 2 - 31 7 11 Tal Ben Chaim ISR 05/08/1989 26 * 6 1 4 - 9 3 4 - 32 5 99 Dejan Radonjić CRO 23/07/1990 25 - - - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - Coach - Slaviša Jokanović SRB 16/08/1968 47 - 6 - 4 - - - 4 - 26 - 5 Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC - Chelsea FC Tuesday 24 November 2015 - 20.45CET (21.45 local time) Match press kit Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa Chelsea FC Current season All-time UCLQ UCL League UCL UEFA No.