Juventus vs Maccabi Haifa Live Score, UEFA Champions League Highlights – Oct 21 2009

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Maccabi Haifa Juventus Live Streaming Score, Highlights – UEFA Champions League 2009

Juventus vs Maccabi Haifa

Juventus vs Maccabi Haifa live stream online Champions League highlights, live football score here. The Champions League encounters kick off after the International break and the Juventus are ready to take the challenge against Maccabi Haifa at Olimpico Grande Torino where Juve will play the hosts.

The three times winner of UEFA Cup and the Cup Winners’ Cup (1984) have the triumph to their credit in the European Champions league in 1985 and 1996. The Turin giants are looking now for their next Champions League title under Coach Ciro Ferrara who would field a 4-3-1-2 formation.

The key players for Juventus are Diego, the 24 years old forward who plays for Brazilian National team, the very experienced Alessandro Del Piero, the young talent Paolo De Ceglie and the new singing Felipe Melo. Their last encounter has been a goalless draw against Bayern Munich.

Mean while it is the second appearance for Maccabi Haifa FC in the UEFA Champions League. The 5 times Israeli league champion have a potential to beat the big teams as they did it with a thrilling victory 3-0 over Manchester United in their first Champions League appearance in 2002-03 season.

The coach Elisha Levy, who favors to go with an attack-conscious 4-4-2 formation, has set an efficient squad, which has a potential to clear the group stages in this year. The key players of Haifa are 28 years old striker Yaniv Katan, the young gun Eyal Golasa, Lior Rafaelov and the new singing Vladimir Dvalishvili who have already scored five goals in the qualifying round. They had lost their last Champions league encounter 1-0 against Bordeaux.

However this would be another rollicking encounter for both the sides, where even the experts are finding tough to make a prediction.