Celje completely outplayed and smashed Neman! After a magnificent victory, the last hurdle before the group stage will now be the prestigious Maccabi Tel Aviv
Celje
celebrates a historic European success! The club from the city of Knez made it through to the last round of the Conference League qualification after being significantly better than Neman in the return leg. In Hungary, Celje won 4:1 and advanced 5:1. Albert Riera and his charges will have to beat a prestigious Israeli club in the last round to qualify for the autumn in Europe
Maccabi Tel Aviv
, who, thanks to a goal from veteran Eran Zahavi from the 11th minute in the 86th minute. AEK Larnaca of Cyprus are eliminated in the last minute of the return leg.
The fact that Maccabi – led from the bench by former Irish goalkeeper Robbie Keane – has been national champions 32 times and has two Champions League appearances to its name is a good indication of the difficult task that awaits Celje on the last step of the European qualification ladder.
Celje decides everything in the first half
It was clear that Celjans were the better opponent already in Stožice, but there was something else that came to the fore: the Alberto Riera squad had a lot of problems with their opponent’s combative, aggressive play. Since the Slovenian champions were still victorious, it was clear that Neman would have to play differently in the return leg. And it did; but this was – predictably – water on Celje’s mill. The Counts had more space for attacking actions and actually decided the match in the first half.
V 21. Luka Bobičanec scored after a pass from the left by Aljoš Matko. The Croat fired from the edge of the penalty area, and his diagonal attempt was just accurate enough to be stopped by the home goalkeeper. Fourteen minutes later, Bobičanec made a good save with a pass. He sent the ball into an empty space and behind the backs of the opposing defenders. Julien Lamy got to the round leather and took a few steps towards the goal with it in his feet, but at the same time it seemed to be too far to the left. Well, there was a shot towards goal, which was good enough to fly past goalkeeper Neman and roll behind his back.
Just before the end of the first half, Denis Popović wasted a “fatal” chance, shaking off the defenders in the penalty area and then firing from 10, 11 metres. Many saw the ball in the net, but Konstantin Rudenok showed great defence.
In the second half, fog started to descend on Gyor, but it did not disorientate the visitors. These are in 55. In the third minute, the playful Luka Bobičanec scored for the second time in the match. The latter had a hand in all three goals for Celje! But even when Bobičanec was no longer on the pitch, the Celjans, who did not miss their former teammate Charles Ikwuemesi (who will continue his career with Salernitana), kept on scoring. V 66. On the second minute, after another quick counter-attack, Lamy again found himself alone in front of the goalkeeper, cleverly rounded him and easily pushed the ball into the empty net.
Eight minutes before the end, Alimardon Šukurov found a way to get the ball behind the back of a restored Celje goalkeeper Matjaž Rozman, but by then everything was already decided. Neman scored only an honorary goal, which, however, could not prevent Celje’s great celebration.
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