Sabah started their trip to Romania successfully when Veljko Simić scored precisely in the 6th minute against Beer Sheva’s Hapoel goal.
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However, Javon East responded with a goal in the 43rd minute, and Igor Zlatanović in the 79th. Hapoel, who had home rights in Bucharest, will travel to Baku holding a minimal advantage – 2:1.
They will have to overturn it on August 22 at 18:00 Lithuanian time.
“First of all, I want to congratulate Hapoel on the victory. Although we started the match with a goal, the opponents managed to turn the result around,” V. Dambrauskas reflected on the match. “They are definitely a high-level team. They played more vertically, but we tried to maintain the rhythm. We prepared as much as we could for this match. The opponents pressed us strongly. Unlike previous teams we faced, they easily escaped our pressure.”
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Sabah and V. Dambrauskas know what it means to win the return leg with a one-goal deficit. In the previous qualifying round, the Baku club lost 1:2 to Aarhus but crushed the Danes 4:0 at home.
What does V. Dambrauskas think about such a result?
“It’s a slippery result, so we have chances. In the previous round, we lost to Aarhus by the same score, but we managed to win in Baku,” the Lithuanian gave an example from the last series of matches. “There we showed a different game. In the return leg, we have to force Hapoel to make mistakes. We must correct our mistakes within a week.”
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