With quite a few setbacks due to positive players for Corona and injured, Hapoel Tel Aviv went up tonight (Saturday) to the away game against Hapoel Haifa with 3 youth players in the squad and only five field players on the bench. Despite all this, the Reds managed to win 0: 2 In a row since Kobe Medicine has replaced Nir Klinger on the lines.
"There was no big game but the players worked - mostly the young ones - but not just them. For some of them it's a first game and it's not as simple as it looks from the outside. I'm very happy with the win, well done to the guys," concluded Kobi Refuah - the guest coach.
The coach added: "Every team has subtractions and injuries. I believed from the beginning in what I have and I take my hat off to the players who were on the pitch today. Even with youth players we need doses. We will not make them big stars now, as if we lost we would not kill them."
Medicine, today in Sami Ofer, Photo: Maor Elkelsi
Ofek Bitton who scored the first goal: "A very important victory, the team prepared us well. We have a unified and very cohesive dressing room, Kobi brought fights and madness. I wish health to everyone who fell ill in Corona and will return to us soon."
Elisha Levy, today in Sami Ofer, Photo: Maor Elkelsi
Elisha Levy summed up a disappointing loss of Hapoel Haifa: "We did not do the smart action in the last part. Hapoel Tel Aviv played with young people who fought, made two attacks, conquered them and knew how to keep it. We did not get real opportunities despite our control. To lose, the players worked and did everything they could, but we have to put the ball in the net. "
Alon Turgeman: "I did not expect to look like this. There is not much to say after such a show, just apologize to the audience. There is not much time to think, there is a trophy on Tuesday and we must go through a stage. A period we do not play football like at the beginning of the year. "Things are not going well, the most important thing is to restore confidence."
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