Just before Betar Jerusalem opens the lower playoffs with Sami Ofer in the critical meeting against Hapoel Haifa, this morning (Friday) the coach, Yossi Aboksis, and the contact, Liran Rotman, showed up for the press conference ahead of the meeting on Sunday in Carmel. And a garden in honor of Purim.
Richmond Boachi (injury to the ankle ligaments), Niv Zrihan (inner ligament in the knee) and Max Grechkin (crack in the foot) will be absent from the game and the club from the capital hopes to be able to train them for the game against MS Ashdod after the break.
“We enter the stage where every game is about six points in the lower playoffs and every game is going to be critical, much because of the rivals in recent games like Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv which we had very hard against, despite the good ability. We must be purposeful in these games In terms of scoring goals, “he explained Abacus.
The coach added: “Despite the support from the crowd and the good ability, we have to score goals and we do not do that, it will have to improve. “But whoever gets on the grass will have to give everything to win this game.”
Aboksis also referred to the points of improvement his team has recorded since arriving: “First of all I think the players really want and give everything in every game until the last minute, and I also told them that if we continue this trend we will stay in the league. “I see a great desire and a lot of discipline. We have to be more quality in the last third of the pitch, this is the area where points are brought in. The players are organized and disciplined and we have the push of the crowd.”
Learn Rothman He said: “As someone who has experienced the bottom playoffs and bottom battles, I can say that it is not an easy task. Despite this, I believe and hope we succeed in the task of staying in the league, we brought the club to this situation and we are also the ones to get the team out of this situation.”
Regarding his and his teammates’ poor attacking ability, he said: “We can say that we may have a bit of bad luck and we must improve our decision-making at the front. It is also on the offensive. “
“Hapoel Haifa is a good team, but we are still Betar Jerusalem and no matter what the situation. We come with the goal of bringing the points home, and hope and believe that we will do it and correct the mistakes from the previous games “, Rothman noted in relation to the opponent and of course did not forget to compliment the audience:” There is no doubt that our audience is a special audience. The crowd comes to support and encourage in every game and that is a very important thing for us, and it is critical for us in the underground struggles. We hope to make a good result and bring satisfaction to our fans. “