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Maccabi Haifa players celebrate (Omari Stein)
she did it Maccabi Haifa was up to the task this evening (Sunday) and after 17 years equaled the club’s record of consecutive victories in the league with 11, thanks to a 1:2 over Hapoel Jerusalem. For Barak Becher, this is also a record-breaking evening – when his previous record was 10 consecutive victories as the coach of Maccabi Haifa.
The coach signs the achievement that he managed to record before only Roni Levy, who in the 2005/06 season led the Greens to a streak of 11 victories during which they recorded a goal difference of 5:26. The one who broke the streak then was Hapoel Kfar Saba who saved 1:1 in Kiryat Eliezer with a dramatic equalizing goal by Oren Nisim in extra time. By the way, Maccabi Haifa finished the same season as champion with a 16-point gap over second Hapoel Tel Aviv – a hint of things to come?
In doing so, Becher’s players will be able to break the historic record in the next league cycle with the 12th victory in a row, but it will not be easy at all for them due to the fact that they will have to do it in this season’s game against Maccabi Tel Aviv.
