Maccabi Haifa will take to the field tonight (Saturday) at Turner Stadium, knowing that at the final whistle for the game against Hapoel Beer Sheva, they may celebrate a second consecutive championship and 14th in history. Although there are four more rounds left until the end of the season, Carmel announced: “We want to celebrate a championship tonight and we will have to work hard for it.”
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Maccabi Haifa coach Barak Bachar warned his players of the opponent’s aggressiveness and its desire to prevent the Greens from celebrating at their home stadium. Bachar demanded that his players be aggressive, but did not change the game plan. He will rise in the offensive approach and requires high pressure, in order to score a quick goal.
As he did most of the season, Bachar will reveal the lineup to his players at a meeting to be held at the hotel in the afternoon. Already yesterday, Maccabi Haifa left for a hotel in the southern city where it will stay until the game. Neta Lavie is given priority over Ali Muhammad and he is expected to open with a link. The change from the game against Hapoel Tel Aviv is Ofri Arad who will open at the expense of the yellowed Sean Goldberg.
Similar to the previous game, this time too Bachar has a dilemma in which wing to place Jose Rodriguez. In the previous game he chose to place him on the left and San Menachem went down to the bench, if this time they were placed on the right, it would be Mikael Alphonse who went down to the bench. “Everyone who opens and everyone who comes off the bench will give everything to achieve the title. We celebrated after the game against Hapoel Tel Aviv, but we have not yet officially finished the story. Everyone is in focus, “the club testified.
The fact that Maccabi Haifa won the championship last season after a decade released pressure, but the professional team and mental advisor, Danny Inbar, keep the players in focus in order for them to arrive at the right level of readiness. The goal he scored in two noble Omer against Hapoel Tel Aviv broke in a two-and-a-half-month drought and it is clear that he really wanted to conquer again. He is on his way to a fourth consecutive championship. Two of them in a Maccabi Tel Aviv uniform.
The green stand will house 1,434 green fans tonight, but there are dozens more who have managed to get tickets to the BS stands. According to estimates, many fans plan to arrive at the stadium complex without tickets, they will cheer the team outside the stadium and wait for the championship celebrations if any.
Estimated composition: Josh Cohen; Mikael Alphonse (Jose Rodriguez), Bogdan Planic, Ofri Arad, Jose Rodriguez (San Menachem); Neta Lavie, Muhammad Abu Fani, Charon Shari; Noble Omar, Dolev Haziza, Dean David.
