Hapoel Hadera received with great disappointment the 2: 1 loss last night (Sunday) to Hapoel Beer Sheva. It was another game in which the team played relatively well and faced well against the table leader, who has yet to be defeated this season. At the same time, it ended in Hadera’s third straight loss, with a total of one league win count in the last nine games.
With the final whistle, there were very harsh complaints among the team members towards the referee Gal Leibowitz, and increased the coach Menachem Koretzky, who said in an interview at the end of the game that “one person came and abused an entire team, an entire club and nothing.”
The winds were stormy with the descent of the players and the professional team to the locker rooms, and the feeling among the Hapoel Hadera people was that in the small whistles Beer Sheva was given priority, while the referee worsened the amount of yellows drawn towards the host players. It should be noted that despite the great anger, some of the team members prevented the players from approaching the refereeing team so as not to risk Leibowitz mentioning things in his report.
Hadera are also very concerned about the dismissal of midfielder Muhammad Osman, who received a direct red in the closing minutes and in response pushed referee Leibowitz. The club believe that this will lead to disciplinary action and removal from several games: “Only we were missing, with all the injured and sick here. If Osman is removed for a few games, it will really be a serious injury to the team,” the club said.
Meanwhile, in Hadera, they are looking at the transfer window and the names marked are Liran Rotman and Elon Almog, while a large part of the league teams are waiting for the latter to be released from Maccabi Tel Aviv. The two have already played in Hadera in previous years, and will now make an attempt on the team to attach both as reinforcements. Although Rotman has become a car player at Betar, Hadera hopes that he will be released due to the financial difficulties at the Jerusalem club.