Mladen Krastić: "Oscar deserves to play. The pressure on me, not on him"

Krasteich gave confidence to the young talent ahead of the game against Maccabi Haifa (Monday, 20:30).

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10/04/2022

Sunday, April 10, 2022, 4:30 p.m.

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Cycle 29

20:30

11/04/2022

Maccabi Tel Aviv

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Summary of Maccabi Haifa's 2: 3 victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv (Sport1)

Maccabi Tel Aviv has not yet won the top playoff and allowed Maccabi Haifa to escape it at the top of the league, but tomorrow (Monday, 20:30) it will host the leader at Bloomfield Stadium, perhaps for its last chance game if it wants to return to the championship fight.

As in previous games, tomorrow Dan Bitton, who is suffering from an ankle sprain, will be missing coach Mladen Krestajic, even though the connection has increased the pace of training.

Bitton is not yet fit to play and this is one of the reasons why the Serbian coach jumped the senior Oscar Galuch, a contact of the youth team who may be credited and perhaps even as a car player.

Coach Mladen Krestajic said at the press conference: "This is a big game in Israeli football, the whole country is expecting it. We had problems with injuries - Dan Bitton was out for a long time, Eyal Golsa was injured but was with us in the last training sessions. Tal Ben Haim was injured in the previous game, not Was in training but now he's with us. I do not see any surprise in including Oscar Gluch on the roster, he is the best player in the youth team and we follow him for a long time, as after the other young players. Now we put him on the roster and he is with us all week. He has quality. He deserves to be with us and play. In the future there will be no differences between an adult and a young player, if you are good you will play. "And do what we trained for in training. I don't need an alibi."

Eden Shamir said ahead of the game: "This is perhaps the biggest game in Israeli football. The previous meeting with Maccabi Haifa is our biggest miss this season. For us, the gap is really big, we wanted it to be smaller when we reach this league, but we Maccabi Tel Aviv want to win every game. Championship statements at the moment are less interesting to us. I went through a roller coaster season. The coach gave me full confidence and I returned it. We came back from the Netherlands and got sick in Corona, I weakened and it took me a while to get back to business. And I will do everything to give it back to him. "

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Eden Shamir (Photo: Berni Ardov)

At the end of the week, the UEFA announced the punishment suffered by the Yellows following the events of the game against PSV Eindhoven in the Conference League and they were fined 29,000 euros. Maccabi Tel Aviv invested great efforts in various ways to locate the rioters, and after doing so announced today that Monday Fans have been removed from the team games for extended periods and the club intends to collect the fine from them (15,000 euros each) by taking legal action.

As you may recall, in the second half the Austrian referee took down the two teams selling the grass and the game was stopped for 9 minutes due to throwing objects from the stands of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, despite repeated warnings from the referee and the announcement.

The club feared that the punishment would be more severe and would not be satisfied with just a fine, but the team was fined 15,000 euros following the dumping of the objects and the team was fined almost the same amount, 14,000 euros, for blocking the aisles.

Although it is a fine of about one hundred thousand shekels, closing stands or punishing without an audience could have cost the club even more.

Will no longer be available to Krestic.

Dan Bitton (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

Trivia

* This will be the 170th meeting between the teams in the senior league.

The balance so far: 49:70 for Maccabi Tel Aviv in victories and another 50 games have not been decided.

* The big turnaround in the 2: 3 home in the previous meeting, a section for Maccabi Haifa, a sequence of 18 league games without a victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv.

It is now looking for its first away win over the Yellows since the 0-2 draw in October 2016.

* Since that game, which was in fact Mladen Krastić's only loss in a local setting, Maccabi Tel Aviv has been unbeaten in 12 rounds: nine wins and three draws.

* Maccabi Haifa presents the best attack in the league (67 goals) and has won every game since the 0-0 draw against Hapoel Hadera in the opening round.

* Daniel Bar Natan, who was the fourth referee at the previous meeting, will manage it for the second time in his career.

For the first time, in January 2015, it was Maccabi Tel Aviv that won 0: 1 in Haifa from a penalty kick by Eran Zehavi, when the Greens lost Dekel Keinan and Edin Tzotzalich by a long way.

• Top playoff

  Group	Games	Victories	draw	Losses	Gates	Points
  1	Maccabi Haifa	28	20	5	3	19-67	65
  2	Hapoel Beer Sheva	28	17	7	4	20-43	58
  3	Maccabi Tel Aviv	28	16	7	5	32-49	55
  4	Bnei Sakhnin	28	12	7	9	31-29	43
  5	Maccabi Netanya	28	10	11	7	32-36	41
  6	Hapoel Tel Aviv	28	11	8	9	35-38	41

In the next round of the top playoffs:

Maccabi Haifa - Bnei Sakhnin (Saturday, 20:00)

Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Tel Aviv (Sunday, 20:30)

Hapoel Tel Aviv - Maccabi Netanya (Monday, 20:00)

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