Krestic was arrested: "We knew Sakhnin would defend himself and not come to play football"

The winning streak of Maccabi Tel Aviv has been interrupted.

The coach on the opponent: "They did not want to play, just stop us."

Sylves: "We looked at them in the white of the eyes"

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19/03/2022

Saturday, 19 March 2022, 17:08 Updated: 22:48

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Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Bnei Sakhnin 0: 0 (Sport 1)

This is not how Maccabi Tel Aviv wanted to open the lower playoffs.

The Yellows were stopped today (Saturday) after 7 consecutive victories with a 0-0 home win against Bnei Sakhnin - which after many years of losses, became the black sheep of Maccabi Tel Aviv this season.

This was the third meeting between the teams this season and Sakhnin scored 5 points.

And Maccabi Tel Aviv?

Only 2.

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Her black sheep: only 0: 0 to Maccabi Tel Aviv against Bnei Sakhnin

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Juvanovic and Maccabi Tel Aviv arrested (Photo: Danny Maron)

Maccabi Tel Aviv coach

said after the game: "We knew the opponent would come to defend, just defend and not play football. I can not say anything about my players, we did everything to win and we did not succeed. The players showed they wanted to win, but we did not win. We expected something to happen in the game. They did not want to play football and that's all. They came here to stop the game, but it's football. There's no reason to stress, we think from game to game and that's all. ".

concluded: "We dominated the game, we were the better team. We got to some situations that should have ended in goal and everything could have been different. We come out very disappointed from this game, but there is nothing to cry about spilled milk. "I do not have an unequivocal explanation for the problem against Sakhnin this season. Nothing happened, there is another long playoff and everything is fine."

At the opening of the game Krestic still smiled (Photo: Danny Maron)

Sakhnin coach Haim Sylves said: "We looked at them in the white of the eyes. This game is misleading, it is not a 0-0 game. Both sides had situations. The game plan worked great. I planned offensive exchanges, I knew that if they got stuck a bit then they would start to open. We could "We did it, but we could also absorb. We could have played a little more relaxed football, but in the first minutes we got into defensive stress."

Sylves continued: "It is impossible to keep Maccabi Tel Aviv without situations, but the main thing is that we did not absorb. Happy from the point, but not from 0: 0. We came to the game against the team in the best form in the league and more with its crowd - it was really not easy. "Moments that we closed down a little too much, but in other moments we wept for Maccabi Tel Aviv. You could see that we were a team that came to take points in every game."

Regarding his future, the coach said: "It does not bother me not to talk about it. I do my job as best I can, enjoy the connection with the club and the players. We have nine more games. If I am here next season, turn around, if we do not also manage."

Sakhnin midfielder Biram Kiel said at the end: "We got a draw. In the end we could even sting and win the passing attacks. We tried to push high at the beginning of the game, we trained ourselves later for Maccabi Tel Aviv. We managed to stop them and they did not get into many situations. Part of the game was also to stop them, delay them, play on their weak points and stop their strong points. Their two strikers make the defenses very difficult, but we changed the lineup and played with three brakes to stop them. I'm glad we stopped them. "We are humble and want to take the opportunity the club has."

• Top playoff

  Group	Games	Victories	draw	Losses	Gates	Points
  1	Maccabi Haifa	27	19	5	3	19-65	62
  2	Hapoel Beer Sheva	27	17	7	3	18-43	58
  3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	27	16	6	5	31-48	54
  4	Bnei Sakhnin	27	12	7	8	29-28	43
  5	Maccabi Netanya	27	10	10	7	31-35	40
  6	Hapoel Tel Aviv	27	10	8	9	34-36	38

The Premier League will take a break in favor of a national team break.

After Maccabi Tel Aviv, it will play an away game against Maccabi Netanya and Bnei Sakhnin will return to Bloomfield, to face Hapoel Tel Aviv.

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