If a 1-0 loss to Maccabi Haifa was not enough, Betar Jerusalem were very worried yesterday (Monday) about Richmond Boachi’s injury. And he will take a photo and only then will the picture about him be clearer, but the club hopes that after the swelling in the place goes down, something positive may come.
Sean Goldberg entered Betar’s locker room at the end, apologized to Boachi for the injury and the two shook hands. For now, Blaufilo Plater is the only Betar striker to be available for the game.
Yossi Aboksis looked very frustrated at the end from the fact that the team was unable to score and told the club members: “No matter if we played well or not – if we do not start scoring, nothing will help. Today we were suckers, we had enough situations.” In the half, the coach coached Itamar Nitzan, who did not give a long ball to Richmond Boachi in the face of pressure from Maccabi Haifa during the pre-goal of Mavis Chibuta, and asked Michael Ohana to come more to the ball in the center of the field, after Haifa began to take control.
Aboksis’ game plan was to close Haifa’s second line players well together with a pressure game on the ball carriers, but the club understands that in the end the losses come from small mistakes. “What does it matter what they do in training if we get an unnecessary goal in every game and do not score? Everyone here has to take matters into their own hands, go through another game and another game, still everyone has to give more to get more out of games,” said the club.
Aboksis said at the end that “the players gave everything. When there are no results and things do not work out, there is also an element of insecurity. We see it in front of the goal, but if we continue like this and if the crowd continues to give us such a huge boost, it will come. Everything is there, but we will come prepared. “
Uriel Degani said at the end: “We draw optimism from the way we play. 5-6 games see Betar play better, but we do not take points. We’ll just do it together, have to keep coming and give it our all on the pitch, believe, keep getting better. There is no other way. We’re better than the bottom teams. We have enough good players and those with experience who have been in bottom battles and believe in themselves and their abilities. We will help the young people to be strong and believe and we will get out of this situation together. The goal we absorbed was very annoying, just two players stepped aside, a hole was created in the middle, and took advantage of it. They also took out a width and in case the ball hit the player and went to the goal, otherwise there was no goal. We pay for the small mistakes, that’s why we are in this situation. ”
Degani at least encourages that “the crowd is with us. The fans have internalized the situation, they are pushing, coming to training to support. We will need them down the road as well.”