Maccabi Haifa coach Barak Bachar entered the locker room last night (Monday) in the half of the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv, when his team was 2-0 behind, and said to his players: "Play your game, score the first and I believe we will not only equal, but we will win. , Successfully".
It was laconic content perhaps, but players on the team said: "The message went well. Sometimes you don't have to shout and turn tables to pick up the team. Even so, we were done with the result."
The rest is known.
The champion defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Israeli Clasico in the league for the first time since October 2016, after three goals in ten minutes.
"We felt Sami Ofer exploding, there was complete madness," said one of the players, "we knew we just had to conquer and the crowd would push us to victory.
Indeed, the club complimented the professional team on the physical fitness of the players and coach Barak Bachar on the exchanges he made, when one of them, that of Goodswe Donio (goal and cooking), changed the game.
"This is a victory for the winners, they will remember him here for another 50 years," the club said, adding: "The players played in the 80th minute as if the game had just started. The team crushed and pushed forward until the turnaround."
Barak Bachar.
Take the team out of the pit in ten minutes, Photo: Alan Shiver,
In Haifa, there were compliments to the players for the character they discovered in the last minutes.
"Cherry showed what a leader he is, dragged everyone with him. Omar Atzili ignored the curses against him and brought numbers, Dean David is the best Israeli striker in the country. Everything connected in the last minutes," they said in Carmel.
At the end of the game, thousands of fans lit candles outside the stadium and celebrated until the wee hours of the night.
In the meantime, Haifa will be prosecuted for throwing fans' belongings on the lawn.
The matter was mentioned in the report of referee Liran Liani and the concern is the closure of the northern stand in the cup game against Beitar Jerusalem or the next league game at home, against Hapoel Jerusalem.
In Haifa, Maccabi Tel Aviv striker Eduardo Guerrero was accused of turning on the crowd with seemingly obscene movement, but apart from that, there were a number of other incidents including stopping the game in the second half in a 2: 2 situation, after throwing objects at goalkeeper Daniel Peretz.
Against Haifa is a conditional penalty of closing the northern stand for one game, and it will probably be activated.
In another matter, midfielder Ali Muhammad received a yellow card on Thursday and will be absent from the cup game against Beitar Jerusalem.
Haifa will be punished?
Photo: Oded Karni,
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