"It was much more than a Cup quarter-final. A game that will be remembered for years to come."

Hapoel Beer Sheva are proud of Aliniv Barda ("forged for any scenario") and the "heroes" who passed Maccabi Petah Tikva in overtime.

Fear of Schechter injury, who admitted he would have left if it had been a league game

Yaniv Tuchman

03/03/2022

Thursday, March 03, 2022, 6:30 p.m.

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Summary of the quarterfinals of the State Cup: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Petah Tikva 0: 2 (Sport 1)

It was much more than a State Cup quarterfinal game.

What Hapoel Beer Sheva went through yesterday (Wednesday) in the 120-minute rematch against Maccabi Petah Tikva, not including overtime, was more like the final itself.

A lot was at stake for the club after a very dramatic 24 hours under the management of owner Alona Barkat.

The extraordinary decision she made, to fire a coach like Roni Levy a day before such an important game, could have taken Hapoel Beer Sheva in two directions.

Her decision to put the team in the hands of Aliniv Barda, who did not want to be on the lines at all, could also have taken Hapoel Beer Sheva in two directions.

At the end of a long evening at Turner, which lasted almost three hours, Hapoel Beer Sheva qualified for the semi-finals and will go out to Bloomfield proud of a very respectable season it has been doing so far.

Roni Levy has a part in this and last night's heroes did not forget to mention him.

Now the face of the team is forward to try to catch up with Maccabi Haifa in the league and it will not be easy after the blows it suffered last night with the fracture in Sagiv Yehezkel's collarbone and the fear of injuring the meniscus in Itai Schechter's knee.

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A long evening ended with an outburst of emotions.

Gordana and Miguel Vitor (Photo: Danny Maron)

Aliniv Barda may not have wanted to be on the lines last night, but he did it wonderfully.

Excellent game management by the professional manager with good exchanges, switching between arrays and a lot of words that penetrated the mind and heart in the meetings he held before the game and during the many breaks that were in it.

"If Aliniv has survived this tension, he is already forged for any scenario," they said last night at the club about the team's former player who today seems most natural to coach her until the end of the season, as Barkat stated yesterday.

Labrador was very important in regaining the unconditional support of the audience.

He also did a lot of work for that goal as Roni Levy coached, and yesterday he got a very significant boost from the stands.

Breda believed on the eve of the game that Turner would be full.

Really thought all the chairs would be occupied.

At the end came 6,000 who gave a feeling of double the amount in the last minutes when the result had to be maintained.

"Forged for any scenario."

Aliniv Barda (Photo: Danny Maron)

Lots of heroes were last night on the grass at Turner.

Headed by Itai Schechter.

Ten days ago he celebrated his 35th birthday. An age that is already being calculated what to do after football.

Schechter on one leg finished the game and lay exhausted on the grass.

Someone like Barda knows how to appreciate this and he runs to him first to hug him.

"With me he's a hero," they said last night at the club.

"There are no such winners in Israeli football."

Schechter admitted at the end of the game that if it had been a league game, he would have expelled himself even at the cost of the team remaining with ten players because there was no longer a replacement.

The team hopes that his injury is just a 'pinch in the meniscus' and that he will not sit for a long time.

And there were more heroes on the grass.

Miguel Vitor who gave defensive work and pushed his head into a jab that created a tie and sent the teams into overtime.

Hatem Abdel Hamid who comes up to play game after game with shots and play on the line where he has to run a lot even though he always said he just wants to be a brake.

Rotem Hatuel, who scored the goal that lifted Hapoel Beer Sheva to the semifinals, did not get many minutes this season, but every time he came up he proved that he has a place in a big team and Ramzi Spori is admirable for playing after three days of illness and squeezing himself to the end.

"It is not clear how this season will end, but this evening will be remembered for many years to come," the club said last night.

"It was a lot more than a Cup quarterfinal game."

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