Ran Kozuch: "We discovered additional details about Red Star"

Hapoel Be'er Sheva has completed its preparations for the return leg tomorrow (Tuesday, 21:00, Sport1) against Red Star Belgrade at the boisterous Marakana. The Israeli champion won 0:1 in the first match in Hungary and will try to maintain the lead to qualify for the Champions League qualification playoff round, where it will await the winner between Denmark's Aarhus and Azerbaijan's Sabah. If it loses, it will drop to the Europa League playoff and meet the Czech Republic's Viktoria Plzen. Its next home matches will in any case be at the Rapid stadium in Bucharest, Romania.

Coach Ran Kozuch said ahead of the match:

"We are very aware of what we will face tomorrow. I think there is a lot of talk about the atmosphere and the fans, but first of all we will meet an excellent team and that is where our heads are, even before everything else. The preparations are the same preparations, of course it is easier after one game against them. There are additional things we discovered, but the preparations are like before every game. We will play against a very high-quality team. Red Star has its qualities, and at home it always wants to be dominant and proactive, no matter against whom. We are preparing accordingly."

He also said:

"Igor Zlatanovic is one of the most important players in our team, like many others. Tomorrow, too, he will have to help us with many of the things he has been helping us with over the last year."

Predicted lineup: Ofir Marciano, Guy Mizrahi, Miguel Vitor, Itay Rotman, Pedro Amaral, Niv Yehoshua, Lucas Ventura, Eliel Peretz, Javon East, Zahi Ahmed, Igor Zlatanovic.