Sheran Yeini, the Maccabi Tel Aviv captain looked back at the club’s 4:0 defeat to Astana on Matchday 3 of the Europa League:
“We can live with this or learn from this. We have to learn from this as Maccabi Tel Aviv can’t play at this level. This was one of the most unpleasant games that I’ve had at Maccabi. We have to make sure that we don’t play like this Europe again especially against a team like this. They are good, but we can do a lot more and we have to already begin preparing for the match against Beer Sheva on Monday.”
Not surprised by Astana’s quality:
“We weren’t surprised. We saw them on video and we knew that they had some excellent players that were quick and strong on the attack. We knew it would be tough, we expected it.”
About the match:
“We tried it surprise them with our formation but it didn’t work as plan and they controlled the pace of the match fairly quickly. After ten minutes we thought we were fairly even. But they began to take over the match and then came the goals and we were not ready for the second one. We wanted to get into the half as is, try to pressure them and get back into the match and give everything that we have. But they scored another quick goal at that was the end of the game.”
