Betar Jerusalem was defeated tonight (Sunday) when it was not awarded a penalty kick from 11 meters, but saved a precious point for it when it returned to a 1-1 home draw against Bnei Sakhnin, in a game that did not rise to a high level between the desperate host and points at the bottom. Her place among the top six to participate in the top playoffs at the end of the regular season.
Yossi AboksisThe Betar Jerusalem coach said regarding the refereeing: “I said in half that they will not talk about the mistake in two days. Need to get back to concentrating on football and not nerves. I saw it in the half, I saw an offense on Degani even before he committed the offense. “It is a serious mistake for those who sat in VAR, it is football and I hope that next time it will be in our favor.”
About the game, Aboksis said: “From the 30th minute we started playing. I told the players in the half to continue like this. We started badly, we lost balls we were not organized, we managed to close a very good team that is in good shape. The second half was exceptional, but did not want compliments, we were “We have to win in the second half, we didn’t get too many situations but there was complete control of the field until the last third where we had to be more purposeful. We need to know how to take a point, bottom teams need to know how to take a point here and a point there.”
He came to the interview position as well Max GrechkinThe Betar Jerusalem defender, who was born in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, is also known to have played in the country in 2020/21 and part of his family is in the country: Most of the country was complacent to the situation because no one expected it to reach such a level, sending reinforcements to all the citizens there and hoping it would end soon with no casualties for either side because war is not good for anyone. I have cousins in Ukraine and a distant family, the situation there is very difficult and citizens are walking around with weapons and everyone is trying to protect their family members. My brother and wife came to the game to cheer us on. It is detached from reality because a week ago he was in the war zone and now he is here. “
On the other hand, Bnei Sakhnin coaches Haim Sylves Satisfied with the point: “We came very prepared, we tried to press, it was a messy game at first. But it worked in our favor, we caused them to lose balls. Them for it, we did not respond well to it.I tried to produce new energy, we had to make them pay for the gamble.We started to fail in operations, we tried to arrange the lineup and it did not help.Only after the equality I saw that in our lineup and on a day we can not punish them, we reorganized “I am proud of the players, very difficult also because of the pressure, high pace, it was very difficult, this point is a good point in light of what developed in the game and the second half was not good.”
The coach added: “Everyone who came on the field fought for something, for us it was enough for a good 30-35 minutes, unfortunately the rabbi faded and the exchanges did not help. It is football, no one promised a garden of roses, in any case it will end on the buzzer. Good adherence to the team, every good player who comes out (Kiel, Oda, Ben Harush) was very lacking, but today there were leaders in the game. There was a harder atmosphere than a regular game and players have to respond to it. To lead the team and that’s its magic. “
connection Marwan Kabha He added: “The game started well, we led and the first half was under our control. In the second half we went back, but you can understand because of the atmosphere and the pressure on the players. “As we are close to being in the playoffs and every game is important. It’s fun to have suspense and action in the table, we’ll have to take the points in other places.”
Betar Jerusalem will host Bloomfield next Monday at Maccabi Tel Aviv and will end the regular season with a home game against Maccabi Haifa. Bnei Sakhnin will host Hapoel Hadera on Saturday and in the final round will host Maccabi Petah Tikva.