“I think that a great game is reflected by a result and not just the performance, which is what we lacked today, to score goals and take it to an even better place that what we had done”, Peretz said, “We lacked a little bit of luck and some concentration, but we had an overall excellent campaign. We are delighted to have reached this stage of the competition”.

On the two legged tie against Shakhtar, Peretz added: “Theor players are of the highest quality I have ever played against. Physically we felt equal to them both in the duals and in the match itself. It didn’t reflect on the result but we felt equal”