Hapoel Haifa took a step back yesterday (Sunday) towards securing a stay in the Premier League, when they ended in a 1: 1 draw against Betar Jerusalem and were nine points away from the red line with only six games left until the end of the season. To a new record immediately at the end of the game – with the great tension that exploded between the main sponsor Tzachi Nakash and the team’s coach Elisha Levy.
Levy, who has been hearing for a long time about the pressures on Yoav Katz for Petro, spoke clearly at the end of the game about the “incitement” against him. Although he did not explicitly mention Nakash’s name, he said that “no club in the country knows who the sponsor is, when he speaks like that it is not normal,” according to the coach.
In Haifa, they are angry about Nakash’s statement, when Yoav Katz also supports Blau and did not like the statements, and it seems that the tension has become between Nakash and Katz as well. “Really in no club in the country can such things happen,” said one of the senior players on the team, “instead of all these things being closed inside the club as in any normal place with us everything is always public and always everything is noisy.”
On the professional side, in Haifa, Levy was complimented on the exchanges and changes that led to a good second half in which Haifa equalized and even had to win. Ben Wahba won compliments, as did Anthony.