Head Coach Slavisa Jokanvic spoke to the assembled media following his side’s 3:0 win over Hapoel Haifa away at Sammy Ofer Stadium. After a scoreless first half, the Yellow-and-Blue stepped up their attack as Captain Eran Zahavi scored on a 49th minute penalty.

About the two halves:

“We started playing the game in the first half, but weren’t able to score. We were not aggressive enough in the last 1/3 of the pitch. In the second half we scored the penalty and then with an extra player we were able to score two more goals.”

Being content with the win:

“I’m very happy here in Israel and happy to be with my team, but we can always improve. We made things interesting today and we also made some big mistakes too. There is always room to improve. We can be happy with the result and three points but we have a lot of work to do.”

On playing Chelsea this week:

“We need to play better against Chelsea than we did today. The Champions League is the highest level of European football. Chelsea may not have played well this season but they are still Chelsea, we have to show our best and I expect that we will do this.”