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After the shock, Maccabi Haifa understands: "There is no time to think, we must give the game of our lives"
Players sprawled on the grass, a shock on the bus back, a quiet convoy of fans and mental work that has already begun in interviews: Maccabi Haifa tries to come out of the shock after the drama and is convinced - "There is no other script than a green championship. If we do not win or end in a draw against Beer Sheva, we do not deserve it."
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Shlomo Weiss
Thursday, May 27, 2021, 7 p.m.
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1. The
scenes in Kiryat Shmona after the dramatic 1: 1 last night (Wednesday) of Maccabi Haifa looked like after a relegation.
San Menachem, Goodsway Donio and Ernest Mabuka lay down on the grass, lined up in the reprimands of director Gil Ofek, and while Mabuka and Menachem went down to the locker room nervous without going to thank the crowd with the rest of the cast, Donio struggled to recover and wept bitterly.
Donio, who had almost signed the championship goal, looked particularly broken in the locker room - like quite a few other players.
"From the final whistle until we got back home, they saw in everyone how broken they were," a player in the team said of the difficult trip to Haifa.
"There is no doubt that we will have to recover and get up from it. To our joy or sorrow we do not have time to think about yesterday's game, and we must get up immediately and give Sunday the game of our lives."
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Returning home looked like a funeral procession.
Maccabi Haifa players (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
highlights
Maccabi Haifa is trying to get out of the shock: this time Bachar did not speak in the locker room, the players looked broken
The fans shouted at the frustrated players on the way back home: "You miss missing out on Sunday!"
The team criticized Haziza and Raz Meir who did not waste time in the last minutes.
Donio received compliments
The players are ready for Be'er Sheva: "There is no script other than a green championship. This is the game of our lives"
2.
If after a loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv Cup Semi-Finals Barak Bakhar encouraged his players yesterday left empty locker room and It seems like none of the players had to have the strength to lift itself, let alone pick up other players.
"In the situation the players were in, everything Barak would say would not help," Haifa explained. "We had to let the players relax a bit and the truth is that Barak and all of us at the club probably had to relax as well. We don't go through something like this every day and not every season. Today Barak will probably talk to the players, because we really have to put everything aside. The whole season, and maybe even beyond that. "
The club intend to talk to the players and make it clear to them that with all the frustration, the championship fight is still entirely up to them. Already in interviews at the end of the game Bachar made it clear that he is convinced that the players will do their part on Sunday, and the optimistic messages continued into the night as well.
In Haifa, there were those who mentioned that even in the first championship of Hapoel Beer Sheva and Barak Bachar, he missed a chance to ensure success in the penultimate round.
So it was Maccabi Haifa that defeated Beer Sheva 1: 2 and sent it to the all or nothing game in the final round.
Bachar managed to do it then with Beer Sheva, and now they are convinced that Haifa will do it again.
Did not speak this time in the locker room.
Bachar (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
3.
Along with the attempts to lift the team, criticism was also heard at Maccabi Haifa yesterday. The Greens showed a particularly weak ability, but most of the criticism was directed at the players who in the final minutes did not hold the ball and "killed" the clock. Dolev Haziza and especially Raz Meir could have taken a few more seconds off the clock at the end but attacked nonetheless. Eventually the attack ended, and Kiryat Shmona got another chance that ended with a ball in the net by Josh Cohen.
"It is not clear why we did not fall on the grass and why we did not do everything so that Kiryat Shmona would not have another attack at all," said one of the players. "There is no doubt that we will have to learn from this before the game on Sunday, but we have to admit the truth - Kiryat Shmona was lucky. Even if it had received the same attack two thousand times, it would not have ended in a goal."
On the other hand, Goodsway Donio, who continues to be one of the surprises of the season and proves that he is not the flop they thought, squeezed compliments.
Bachar will have to decide first whether he goes up with Donio or continues with Nikita Rokavitsia who was not at his best yesterday.
Bachar will have to make do without Neta Lavi and Bogdan Planic, and Rami Gershon will continue in the squad.
Muhammad Abu Fani will also return to 11, but it is unclear whether Bachar will make further changes.
"It doesn't matter who plays - there is a task on Sunday and it is to win. We will have to do it," the club said.
Did not recover.
Donio (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
Although a silence will suffice, in Haifa there were already voices last night calling on the team to play with the goal of winning against Beer Sheva, otherwise there may be complications.
"We have to tell the truth - if we do not beat Be'er Sheva or at least get a draw, then we do not deserve to be champions," said one of the players.
"We believe in ourselves and know there is no other scenario other than a green championship on Sunday."
Top playoff
Group
Mash
Netz
A.
Hp
Gates
Nk
1
Maccabi Haifa
35
23
7
5
27-69
76
2
Maccabi Tel Aviv
35
21
11
3
31-63
74
3
tax.
Ashdod
35
14
9
12
38-45
51
4
Hapoel Beer Sheva
35
11
15
9
40-43
48
5
Maccabi Petah Tikva
35
13
7
15
35-31
46
6
Urban Kiryat Shmona
35
12
9
14
43-35
45
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