Krestajic: "Juvanovic and Fritsa slept in the first half, they were not on the field"
The Maccabi Tel Aviv coach was furious with the striker pair after the stumble against Bnei Sakhnin: "It happens that they do not play well, but we must give the maximum, I do not care how much they have scored so far."
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20/03/2022
Sunday, 20 March 2022, 06:51
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Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Bnei Sakhnin 0: 0 (Sport 1)
After finishing the regular season with seven consecutive victories, Maccabi Tel Aviv hoped to open the top playoff games on the right foot but stumbled with a 0-0 home draw against Bnei Sakhnin.
This was the third game this season in which the Yellows failed to subdue Sakhnin and now that the gap from Maccabi Haifa, which has grown to eight points in the first place, it seems that the team has moved very far from the championship battle.
"Games like this should be won by force," a club official said.
"It was clear to us that Sakhnin will mainly come to interfere, and when you do not score early in the game things can get complicated and that is what happened. There is no explanation for what is happening to us against Sakhnin this season, we will have to come back stronger after the team break."
Mladen Krestajic came up yesterday in a super offensive line-up, with Tal Ben-Haim as right-back and Matan Balteksa who started as left-back but will function in many parts of the game in a high position in the link.
Krestic knew that Sakhnin would come mainly to shut down and tried to send a lot of players to the front, with an attempt to take advantage of the speed of giving a hoax in the offensive part.
In practice things did not really work out, Gad Amos did not have a real job, and even at the press conference at the end of the game Krestic came in very offensive.
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Attacks also came to the press conference.
Mladen Krestic (Photo: Danny Maron)
"We were dominant throughout the game," the Serb shot. "We should have been calmer in the first half, but Juvanovic and a breakaway slept throughout the first half. In the second half we were more aggressive and got into situations but did not score. You have to want and show hunger to seize opportunities , We can not live on the games that were, every day is the most important day in life. They just were not on the field, they were completely off the game. It happens that you play not well, but you must give yourself the maximum in every game. "You have to score goals and then in the second half when you get to situations - God did not let you score. Everyone has to do their job."
The Serbian coach was asked if he has any offensive solutions within the team, for other cases where Fritza and Juvanovic are as weak as yesterday and replied: "We are not just talking about both now. For me every training and every game is important "Your opponent and also does not respect your teammates. I do not care how much they have scored so far, they have to keep working hard because the goals they scored also came with the help of the whole team and not just because of them. But I take responsibility and we now have two weeks to work on it." .
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Regardless of how the current season ends, it is already clear that Maccabi Tel Aviv will be significantly stronger for the next season.
The last few games have highlighted how much the team lacks offensive tools, both in the defensive positions and in the front.
Also noticeable is the lack of significant wingers.
Last night the Yellows played without Dan Bitton, who was unfit because of the stitches in his heel.
And was very lacking, especially in the penetration missions from the center and without him there was no one to give balls to the Balkan duo on offense.
"Dan Bitton is a very good player, but Maccabi Tel Aviv is not just built for one game, Maccabi is not just Dan Bitton," said Krasteich.
The Maor Kandil issue has occupied the people of Maccabi Tel Aviv in recent days.
The defender, who was not included in the squad last night, rarely gets minutes and is surprisingly called up to the squad of the Israeli national team, which is gathering this week for the pair of friendly matches against Germany and Romania.
Unlike Dan Glazer, Ophir Davidzada, Gabi Kanikovsky and Matan Balteksa, who are in good shape and have been called up to the squad, Krastić did not really understand Kendall's summons and did not hesitate to express open criticism on the subject.
"He's definitely a good player," the coach said.
"But I was an assistant coach and a national team coach, and I never invited my squad, players who do not play in their squad. I do not want to talk about politics in the association, but if you invite a squad who does not play, then you do not respect the other defenders in the league. "Glad that Kandil has been called up, it compliments us, it shows that we have good players on the staff, but what will the other defenders in Israel say? It's not normal, but maybe I'm not normal."
"The result will not take the wind out of our sails."
Dan Glazer (Photo: Danny Maron)
Dan Glazer tried to explain at the end why his team failed to beat Sakhnin this season in any of the three meetings.
"I do not have an unequivocal explanation for why this is happening against Sakhnin. They are a good team and we prepared well for them. It is true that we did not get to many situations, but two or three situations we had to end in a goal and then the whole game looked different. "We came with tremendous momentum and I do not think this result will take the wind out of our sails for a moment."
Glazer was asked both about the time wasted by Sakhnin players during the game and about referee Gal Leibowitz's response to the matter and replied: "I do not usually talk about referees, but I think the hand should be harder on the trigger against teams trying to waste time. They feel comfortable, Because (the judges, RB) do not come against them aggressively from the beginning and show them that this should not happen.
They will do the thinking with themselves and besides, the judgment was just fine. "
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
Next round games in the top playoffs
Maccabi Haifa - Hapoel Beer Sheva
Maccabi Netanya - Maccabi Tel Aviv
Hapoel Tel Aviv - Bnei Sakhnin
sport
Israeli soccer
Super League
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