Maccabi Haifa will return from the national team break to an away game against Hapoel Jerusalem tomorrow (Saturday, 18:00) at Teddy Stadium, and will try to return to the winning track after the disappointing loss to Hapoel B'Shlosha before the break.
Ahead of the game, coach Barak Bachar said: "There is no doubt that we had a very intense period until the break, with seven games in 22 days. During the break we had the time to analyze things, obviously we did not finish in the best way, with the painful loss to Hapoel B'Shlosha.
But beyond that, it was important for us to go over things, analyze them and there were a lot of bad things, both in attitude and conduct and on a professional level.
We aim to play football much better, as we used to do, and I have no doubt that we worked on it and we will see the improvement in the coming games. "
The coach added: "Hapoel Jerusalem showed that although they did not win but made life difficult for all the teams they played against, and even when they lost it was difficult. Although they did not score but they also do not absorb much, so we expect a hard game like any game in the league."
Meanwhile, the club announced this morning (Friday) that in light of the high demand, a request was made to Slavia Prague for a further allocation of tickets for the game in Prague.
The Czech team complied with the club's request and transferred about 600 tickets for the benefit of the green crowd.
In total, the team will be accompanied to Prague by about 2,500 fans.
Maccabi Haifa training, Photo: Courtesy of Maccabi Haifa