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Maccabi Tel Aviv Head Coach Slavisa Jokanovic spoke frankly about his team's display after losing the Champions Cup match on penalties to Kiryat Shemona.

"The team lost a very easy game today, we did exactly what they wanted us to do. We scored first, we had an extra player and Kiryat Shemona came back to win and deserved the trophy. We were soft defensively and didn't handle the crosses well. We gave up some easy goals and this is not the first time we have done this. I think the referee made the correct calls with the penalty retakes but Kiryat Shemona deserved the victory.

This was not the level we need to play for an important European game. If we play like this against Basel it will make things very complicated for us. Again, the team relied on Eran Zahavi who scored two goal, but we have to look forward to what we have in front of us now and get prepared for our next game."