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On Thursday night, Austrian champion Red Bull Salzburg finally had clarity on the venue for the first leg of the Champions League play-off duel with Maccabi Tel Aviv.
As Salzburg announced, the away game against the Israeli champions will take place at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, September 22, despite Corona’s lockdown on the Middle East state.
That was determined by UEFA, he said in a broadcast. Spectators will not be allowed.
Red Bull Salzburg wanted to avoid a duel in Israel
“Personally, I don’t want to play in Israel. Because it is dangerous at the moment, it is dangerous for our group,” expected coach Jesse Marsch.
The latest figures set a record with officially 5,523 new cases, in Israel 1,147 people have died after a corona infection so far.
“I think in the past, a lot of the club here had stress and fear of a qualifying round like this because they didn’t make it,” Marsch said.
“But right now we have a group that understands what the Champions League means and what it takes. That is an advantage for us.”
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