Maccabi Haifa used the European factory this season mainly to learn to increase its pace of play.
In the league, the Greens use physical fitness to run over almost anything that stands in their way, but facing rivalries in the home stage of the Conference League, that was only enough to end a respectable campaign with 4 points and two right-handed goals in six games.
Tonight (Thursday) in Rotterdam, against the strong Feyenoord, Barak Bachar preferred to keep most of his first team players for the game against Beitar Jerusalem in the league.
What he needed to get out of the European campaign, he has already achieved, a kind of lesson for next season, ranking points, money and also fun for the players against rivals who really do not belong to the third most important enterprise in Europe.
Cyril Desers (38) and Riff Nelson (65) scored for Feyenoord, for whom the game was also unimportant.
In front of empty stands, Haifa did not really experience one of the home stadiums in the Netherlands, but it may also have helped it to end its journey calmly, and not with a result that would lower some of the confidence it had gained in the league.
Dean David still had time to shrink in extra time (91), a second goal in total in six games.
It's not much, not enough, but gives the taste to more.
Perhaps, next season in the stage of houses of a more senior enterprise.
Dean David rolls to the gate at the end.
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Muhammad Abu Fani.
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Ofri Arad rises to strike.
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Maccabi Haifa players.
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Yuval Ashkenazi.
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Maor Levy.
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Barak Bachar and Feyenoord coach, Arena Slot.
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