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Bachar, Sari, the character and the crowd: the evening when Maccabi Haifa once again proved its strengths, on the way to the championship
Maccabi Haifa once again recovered from the loss, and showed character and resilience.
Bachar has once again raised his players, and is already "waiting for the celebrations."
The crowd once again swept the group, preparing for "madness" in Kiryat Shmona.
Cherry excelled, Rokavitsia returned, and the Greens already feel it deserves: "Everyone just wants to secure a place in history"
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Maccabi Haifa
Barak Bachar
Charon Cherry
Shlomo Weiss
Monday, 24 May 2021, 07:07 Updated: 07:14
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1.
Three critical days passed for Barak Bachar. The Maccabi Haifa coach, who has already recorded career achievements with a trophy in Kiryat Shmona and three championships at Hapoel Beer Sheva, has reached one of his biggest tests. After the loss on Thursday to Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Cup semi-final, the fear was felt among the 27,000 spectators in the stands in Haifa. Bachar realized the magnitude of the hour already with the final whistle on Thursday, and began three days of work mostly on the mental side. "We talk about it a lot this season," Bachar said at the end, "after every loss we talk about our mental side and like to laugh at the mental team but here is the proof that good mental work has been done."
Indeed, Bachar and his team have invested quite a bit of time and energy in personal conversations as well as in general meetings. Before the game, Bachar gathered his trainees for the meeting and presented them with all the games that came after losses this season. From the loss to Tottenham to the games in the league after the losses against Hapoel Kfar Saba, MS Ashdod, Maccabi Petah Tikva and Maccabi Tel Aviv. He showed his players how they got off the boards and managed to win, time after time. "This time too we will take revenge and win," Bachar promised his trainees. "We are having a great season and here is another game to prove it." Among the players, the messages permeated, including the message of owner Yaakov Shachar, who, although not at his best, arrived especially on Friday for the team's training. "We've heard all the reviews in the last few days," explained a player on the team, "we deserved it, but we knew our strengths and realized that if we took the right approach it would be hard to stop us."
Indeed, the Greens came up in the first half "like the muzzle of a cannon", and players who have played less good games in recent times such as Jose Rodriguez, Ofri Arad and Neta Lavie showed a great close game and came back to themselves at just the right time.
"We are very committed," said a source in the team, "the pace in the first half was not normal. Deserves to shine on the preparation and the players for being able to implement everything and show again that we deserve the championship."
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Again he rehabilitated the group, again did not let it enter a crisis.
Bachar (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
Come back, and big time.
Rokavitsia and Rodriguez (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
2.
If there was anything that was very lacking for the Greens on Thursday there was the crowd behind them. Last night, half an hour before the opening whistle, the players finished the warm-up and were about to go down for a final briefing. Just before the drop, all the players and all the professional team members who were on the grass gathered in a circle and spurred each other on. Tens of thousands who were already in the stands saw the event and suddenly a huge noise from the stands read only one word and it is “war” for about half a minute. "We heard the cries of the crowd," admitted a player on the team, "of course it spurred us on. We understood what the crowd wanted from us and it's a commitment. And the truth is, it's also what we expected of ourselves exactly."
But that was not the only moment the crowd really served as the 12th player.
In the 63rd minute, when Ashdod were in control for a few minutes, deafening shouts of contempt were heard during Ashdod's attack, and those seconds seemed to bring about a change in the Greens who began to wake up when the Ashdod players who controlled the ball lightly began to stress.
"It was very exciting," Bachar admitted when asked about the crowd, "when a full stadium pushes you, it's exciting. I just want to think about the celebrations that will be when we do it, I so want it to happen and I do not want to miss it, and for that we have to We will win Kiryat Shmona and we will arrive ready. "
Even at the end, the fans celebrated in the vicinity of the stadium in what looked like championship celebrations, but in Haifa they made it clear that fans may rightly celebrate, but at the same time the players are not allowed to celebrate and they need to be focused to complete the task on Wednesday.
A special feeling.
The 12th actor, the driving force, the audience (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
Who remembers the trophy?
The championship on the way back to Haifa (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
3. The
last two days also increased the possibility for urban people of Kiryat Shmona Haifa was promising that if the championship final last night, they will take the game to the venue Haifa.
But Maccabi Tel Aviv won, the Greens have not yet secured the championship, so the transfer of the game to Haifa is not expected to be happy.
Already with the final whistle last night, fans began to think about how to get a ticket to the championship game, with the northern stadium containing only 5,300 seats.
"There will be madness around the tickets, and thousands of fans will also arrive without a ticket," the fans promised at the end, "everyone just wants to secure a place in history after ten years."
The Greens will come to the game against Kiryat Shmona without Bogdan Planic, who has apparently finished the season and will not take part in the last two rounds.
The brake felt a sharp pain in the back muscle and would undergo a photo to find out if it was a stretch or a tear, when in both cases he would not be able to return within a week.
The one who will return is Muhammad Abu Fani.
Bachar also earned last night Nikita Rokavica who returned to conquer and is expected to get the credit even in two days in a game that could become the championship game.
Get excited with the crowd on their holiday.
Cherry (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
A season where everyone excels.
Cohen (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
4.
Alongside all the players who received compliments it was Charon Cherry who won the most compliments last night. The Dutch midfielder was the standout on the grass and added excellent cooking in the second goal to Donio Goodsway. At the end of the game when the festivities were over with all the players descending into the locker room, Sherry was called to the crowd. The Dutchman approached the stands with his two children, with his little son on his shoulders. The crowd that went into a frenzy sang to Sherry his actor's song, with one line perhaps most characteristic of what Sherry presented last night on the pitch: "A Dutchman who drives everyone crazy."
Cherry has known a lot of ups and downs this season but in the statistics line he already stands at 11 goals and six assists and is one of the main factors in the championship, if and when it is achieved. Rodriguez, who recorded a less than good period, also stood out last night and received many compliments from the team members. Rodriguez as well as Cherry hold contracts for next season but quite a few players in Haifa and Bachar himself do not yet hold contracts and are thinking about their future next season.
Bachar has asked his players in recent days not to deal with contracts and next season and to only deal with the task.
"It's time to not mess with anything around," said a player on the team, "Barak asked for it from us but the truth is that neither of us is currently interested in next season or the contract but only to make history and win the championship. We were the best team this season and we must complete it "To prove to everyone that this will be a sweet and huge championship. The task is not yet complete and we must not miss it."
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