Betar Jerusalem coach after the 4: 1 to Maccabi Tel Aviv: "This is the team we got, celebrating was not angry with me and Barda" • Van Leven: "We could have scored more" It's going to be my biggest season here "
Drapich, tonight
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Ami fat
Van Leven concludes
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Alan Shiver
Tonight (Monday), Maccabi Tel Aviv reached the top of the table for the first time this season (Monday) after a big 1: 4 in Bloomfield over Betar Jerusalem.
The champion took advantage of the stumble of Maccabi Haifa against Maccabi Petah Tikva and won first place with a celebration of goals and a great game.
"It was our successful evening," coach
Patrick van Leven
concluded
,
"a good performance and good goals. The victory came to me in my opinion. We were good at taking advantage of the situations we created. We could have scored even more goals or two. Our players have quality, I use their quality, "It doesn't improve them. It shows that the team is united, no matter if they play or sit on the bench - they encourage each other. I enjoy the team, I enjoy watching the players during the games. I enjoy the work and progress of the players."
The coach was asked if he thought about what would have happened if he had been a coach since the start of the season and not Donis - and replied elegantly: "We will not talk about this issue".
On the first place the team won: "It is our goal, to continue to play like this in every game and even better. We will work on it, success will come from our work."
The first goal scorer in the game,
Itai Schechter
who broke a long drought said: "I waited for this goal, as you know I work very hard in training and played less, but when you are in a club like Maccabi Tel Aviv you should know that there is rotation, there are foreigners and quality players. "You have to be there, no matter how many minutes. I am very happy with this victory and I have to move on."
Schechter added: "Maccabi is a club that has to deal with pressure, even when we were 8 points behind we knew that every point we lose is a problem. We knew it would not be easy, we knew we would have to be there, because Maccabi Haifa was at an amazing points accumulation. Luck, in the games we won late, but luck goes with the good ones. "
Maccabi Haifa?
"I do not look at them but at us, we must continue in our modesty. We will talk at the end of the year and say who is better, whoever takes the championship will be better. We have good momentum, still not good enough in my opinion, there is more work. If we win this season it will be "Amazing, it will be my biggest season here, but modesty is the most important thing in football."
On the other hand, losing coach
Slobodan Drapic
concluded: “I enjoyed this game less.
It's not looking good so far and it's not what we expected from this whole season.
There are three games left and we need to get the maximum out and also look downwards and not just upwards.
We have to be professional to the end and try to get the most out of this season. "
The coach added: "We talked to the players, I do not think we have a dismantled locker room, we still control the players. We have ups and downs. There are 9 points in the pot and we want to believe that with seriousness we will come and get the most out of these games and hope we are there ".
Drapich explained the reasons for the weak ability: "This is the team we got, a lot of mistakes were made, but only at the end of the season can we talk. We have two foreign brakes we pay a lot of money to and they are not on the squad at all, there are a lot of problems, it can not be hidden. "Moshe is not angry with us, he is angry about the losses, but he is not angry with me and Shai Barda. From what I heard from him, he wants us to stay as much as possible in Betar Jerusalem. We have to deal with the situation."