Big surprise. Precisely after the big 0: 6 against MS Ashdod, Maccabi Haifa was stopped in the north and lost 2: 1 to Kiryat Shmona. It was the Greens’ first league loss since they surrendered to Hapoel Beer Sheva in the first round in October, and missed an opportunity to widen the gap at the top to five points from the Southerners.
Barak Bachar He said at the end: “We got exiles too easy, this is a difficult pitch. Although we absorbed we went back into the game, but after the second goal there was a whole salad and we could not bring our things. It’s a football game and you can also lose, everything’s fine. We played against a difficult team on a field that is difficult to develop football, we paid for mistakes and we lost. “
Bachar for missing the opportunity to widen the gap at the summit: “We are playing against rivalry and not air. There are big fights both at the bottom and on the top playoffs. Next week we will play against Hapoel Tel Aviv so there are no easy games. We need to do things better and today we did not do the job. “
On the game against KS, the coach said: “It’s always fun to come back here, I spent maybe a quarter of my life here, I appreciate Drapich both as a professional and as a person. I’m at least happy for him about this victory. He and Izzy Shretzky will arrange things between them. “
Muhammad Abu Fani He said: “What did not work today? First of all we played against a strong team on a hard pitch. There are a lot of things that did not work for us today and we will learn from that going forward. The truth is that we tried to concentrate on ourselves and not on the part that was with Drapich, we do not care about the other side. We came ready to win the game, in the end we did not.
We have more important games and the league is still long. We wanted to escape to Hapoel Beer Sheva and Maccabi Tel Aviv, but we did not do it today. Taking a championship is not easy, and all teams want it. Did the Kiryat Shmona players want more? They won all the fights on the field and we did not take advantage of our situations. “