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Maccabi Tel Aviv is already looking forward to next week's return leg in UEFA Champions League third round qualifying action against Viktoria Plzen in the Czech Republic. Yellow-and-Blue midfielder Gili Vermouth spoke exclusively to the club's Official Website after last night's match, thanked the fans and was optimistic going into the second game

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 "To lose at home 1:2 is not a good result, but we saw that our opponent Viktoria Plzen is a quality side and the match was a tough one as will next week's game be in Plzen. Everything is still wide open.

Sometimes results don't show you the full picture. They did their work early on in the first half and then went back and defended. In the second half we came back but we will have to go to Plzen and win, we have no choice.

 I want to thank the supporters who were terrific today and I hope that they continue the same way going forward.

 We have another 90 minutes and another game to play. We will have to pressure them and take a lead as everything is still open but our chances have been minimized a bit. We all believe in ourselves to go there and do what we need to do."