Maccabi Haifa recovered tonight (Saturday) from the loss to MS. Ashdod last week, with a very important 1:3 over Beitar Jerusalem, which increased the gap from Maccabi Tel Aviv at the top of the table back to five points. Mohamed Abu Fani drove in the area over Danilo Asperia and ex-Yordan Shua scored from the penalty spot (11), but the momentum changed in extra time of the first half: Ferenzi Piero (45+2) broke the streak of a complete round, Grigori Morozov (45+4) lightly slapped Dolev Khaziza and was sent off with a second yellow, and from that moment there was only one team on the field. Charon Sherry (61) completed the The turnaround after a great team move, and the victory was assured despite the missed penalty by Omer Atzili (77). Now the Greens will move on to deal with the return of the quarter-finals of the State Cup against Maccabi Netanya in the middle of the week, and then, next Monday, a hot derby awaits them against Hapoel Haifa.
“When you lose there is a crisis and when you win everything is good…proportions,” Barkbacher said. “We knew we were a good enough team. They were strong with the crowd and they pushed us like crazy, the players also understood that we had to raise the level. We went up with a lot of quality players and it required us to work, I’m glad we won. When everyone works it makes the opponent stay at 20-30 her meter and create situations, and that’s what we did. There was complete control even against 11 and obviously also against 10 players. There was a crazy pace. We felt that we were getting back to ourselves and needed to create continuity, I felt that the strengths had returned and this needed to continue.”
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The winning coach said about the attacking lineup he put together: “We knew that Bitar would defend with most of the players, we knew that we might be a bit exposed, but I trusted our defensive part. We had a presence today, both in the square and on the sides, we handled the ball well. Maybe it won’t suit every game, but that’s what suited today.”
About Omar Atzil who continued his bad period and even missed a penalty, Bachar said: “He really ran today, tried very hard, worked, and that’s why he played most of the game. There are periods when he goes less, even bigger players than him missed. I saw desire, I saw work . I gave him the confidence, he will continue to play in the upcoming games. We are looking at what is right in training, we all know that Omar will provide the goals and assists in money time, I have no doubt about that.”
Charon Sherry, responsible for the winning goal: “It was a good victory, we made it a little difficult for ourselves, but the most important thing is to win. We want to play better, it was a very important game and we have to continue like this. We always want to, but sometimes we are a little We are stuck. We could have made it 1:3 or 1:4, but 1:2 is also good. Dia Saba is a good, fast, technical player, it is very good that he came here. We need to get as many points as possible until the playoffs.”