After Monday's victory over Betar Jerusalem, Maccabi Tel Aviv will host Hapoel Hadera on Saturday (19:00) for the 26th and final round of the regular season.
"When you play and work in a big club, everyone expects results, it's normal to have high expectations of winning every game," Krestic said in his opening remarks. A place to be complacent.
The episode we have done so far is good but we need to be focused in the future so that we do not lose what we have done so far ”.
"I think we are in a good position, we have another game in the regular season and we are sure that a difficult game awaits us, Hadera also needs a victory.
I will try to convey to the players my ideas, we need to look at ourselves and maintain our style of play.
We will not concentrate on the next games but only on the next game.
I do not like to talk about things that have not happened yet, I will try and keep telling my players to look only at the next game and not the next games.
I do not want to make calculations, I want the players to enjoy football. "
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Regarding a possible rotation before the playoffs, the coach said: “When you work for a big club you have to play offensive football, if you want to get good results you have to play offensively and take risks.
I was a defensive player in my career as a player but as a coach I want to play offensive football.
As for the selection of players, we do not care who is defensive and who is offensive, we care about the character.
Ben Haim in the other game is a good example, I do not want to be a prisoner of tactical things, offensive players do not have to play only on offense and vice versa.
I do demand discipline in the team, to play defensively and offensively as a team. "
On the lineup in which he chooses to play: “We have been here for three months and know the character of the players, we arrive 3 hours before training, stay after training, we talk a lot in the training team and the ideas come.
We only talk about Maccabi all the time, there may be crazy ideas, but in a positive way, we try to get the most out of every player. "
On the ability of Georgia Juvanovic: "He's a quality player, I knew that, I worked with him in the partisan when he was a kid, I knew he could help us because of his quality and his character. When you try to bring in foreign players it's hard when you have to promise things, it's "There was a particularly big price for someone coming from the Balkans, but when I promise something I do it when I strongly believe in it."
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