"I would not go for fear of upsetting Maccabi Tel Aviv"

Gili Vermot, Eyal Mashomer and Kobi Moyal snatched six from Maccabi Tel Aviv in the league 6 years ago in the Maccabi Haifa uniform, but after three days they won it and won the state cup. Now they are talking about a double meeting that week and sporting revenge: ", Says Moyal

Yaniv Tuchman

20/04/2022

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 2:00 p.m.

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Summary: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Tel Aviv 0: 1 (Sport 1)

"I never liked a double encounter with a team that week," Eyal Mashomer recalled yesterday (Tuesday).

"There's something about a double encounter in a few days against that annoying opponent. We knew how to take it to a good place and won the trophy, but by and large it's something that has always been uncomfortable to me."

May 21, 2016, Maccabi Haifa arrives in Bloomfield for the last league game of the season against Maccabi Tel Aviv, knowing that three days later they will meet the champion of the three years prior to another game, this time in the Cup final.

Maccabi Tel Aviv with Peter Boss on the lines wants a fourth championship, but it does not have too much of a chance against Hapoel Beer Sheva, which is leading and close to the first championship in the Barak Bachar era.

In the 28th minute, Eran Zehavi made it 0: 1 and sent the fans to celebrate until the 40th minute, when Hapoel Beer Sheva made its first against Bnei Sakhnin in Turner.

Since Maccabi Tel Aviv owed Beer Sheva a draw or a Sakhnin victory, it was not dependent on itself and despite a crazy 0: 6 victory over Maccabi Haifa that night, Hapoel Beer Sheva won the championship.

"I still say that if I had not gone out on a break in Bloomfield, we would not have lost 0: 6 that evening," giggles Mashomer, who was then Roni Levy's right-back in Maccabi Haifa.

At the break it was really only 0: 1 to Maccabi Tel Aviv but in the second half Maccabi Tel Aviv exploded with another pair of Eran Zehavi and goals by Tal Ben Haim, Carlos Garcia and Harris Madonianin.

"We came to this league game three days in advance before the cup final knowing that our most important game that week would be in the final," Mashomer continues.

"I will not tell you that we came to lose or be defeated by Maccabi Tel Aviv, but we thought more about the final that was waiting for us and the fact that Roni kept some players and spent some to keep them."

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Canned and Maccabi Haifa players in Bloomfield, evening 6: 0 (Photo: Meged Guzni)

Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. Maccabi Haifa This is the big game of Israeli football for more than 30 years and Haifa went home with a resounding six.

"We knew we were taking this loss to a place of revenge," says Mashumer.

"We were motivated in the days after the game to come and correct the impression. It was the most important game for us."

Teddy reached the final for the two teams in a different mood.

Maccabi Tel Aviv was a much better team, which to this day mourns the loss of the fourth consecutive championship in favor of Hapoel Beer Sheva.

Maccabi Haifa in an opinion after the crazy criticism it received in the media and from its fans.

In the 36th minute, Maccabi Haifa midfielder Ludovic Oberniak kicked a free kick that went inside and made it 0: 1, which stunned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans.

Despite many attempts to compare, Maccabi Tel Aviv lost the game and ended the season without a championship and without a trophy.

Now Maccabi Tel Aviv is where Maccabi Haifa was six years ago.

She lost to Hapoel Beer Sheva on Sunday in the league and all the frustration and nerves she will want to direct tonight against her Hapoel Beer Sheva in the state cup.

"I am sure that Maccabi Tel Aviv will come madly to this game, especially after losing," Mashomer is sure.

"But it's a trophy and it's a semi-final and I'm sure Hapoel Beer Sheva will not come to play calmly either. What is certain is that Maccabi will come with very strong energies."

"That's right. In this respect, the result this week in the league did not humiliate Maccabi Tel Aviv and it will not come in a frenzy for sporting revenge, but it is still a loss only three days ago and it sits at the head of the Maccabi Tel Aviv players."

"What happened that week in May, was extreme."

Vermouth (Photo: Meged Guzni)

Gili Vermot, who started the same league game in which Maccabi Haifa was defeated 6: 0, but did not play in the cup final three days later, finds no interest in creating motivation through losses.

"I always wanted to come to the game after winning the previous game," says Vermouth, who was a Maccabi Haifa player in 2016, who came to him in the middle of the season from Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Vermouth does not think Maccabi Tel Aviv has an advantage tonight just because they lost this week in Be'er Sheva.

"What was then that week in May 2016, was extreme. Both the 0: 6 defeat and the one we took the trophy when Maccabi Tel Aviv was much better. The balance of power between the teams was clear to everyone. This is not the situation today between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva. Today "Maccabi Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva are equal in strength with excellent staff. I'm also sure that the two teams will advance in different teams in the semifinals compared to the league this week."

"Absolutely not. I do not think so. I am convinced that if we look for double encounters in history in a few days, it seems that many times teams that won the first game did the same in the second game. It has no rules. Maccabi Tel Aviv had to beat Maccabi Haifa in both games. "The fact that we won the cup final was extraordinary. Out of ten finals, Maccabi Tel Aviv would have won eight then."

"If I went into their head, it would have done me good. It should have strengthened them. Let them feel that here they have beaten Maccabi Tel Aviv and looked good. They need to come with confidence and mood. They connected the crowd to them. If I am a Beer Sheva player "I really do not go in fear that I angered Maccabi Tel Aviv. On the contrary. It is always better to win before a game and be good. It is not that Hapoel Beer Sheva made a bunker and won by chance. It deserved the victory at Turner and she should be optimistic after that.

"It's not that Be'er Sheva made a bunker, it deserved the victory. There are no rules" (Photo: Danny Maron)

Hapoel Beer Sheva is pleased that it won only 0: 1 on Sunday.

She also won and did not upset Maccabi Tel Aviv too much.

"They also won and they are not in euphoria either. I do not like it. I like to analyze things more professionally and less mentally. I think the better you play and score more, the more confident you feel. I do not think there will be a connection between the two games."

"I do not refer to him as a foreign coach, but as a good or bad coach. I can tell you that I appreciate him for what he said at the press conference a week ago in which he expressed disappointment that he did not continue and was not informed of anything. I think he spoke honestly unlike other coaches. "They might have hidden their feelings. I think every Maccabi player wants to prove himself, whether it is against this coach who may continue or the next coach who may come at the end of the season."

Going with the Yellows tonight.

Moyal in that cup final (Photo: Adrian Herbstein)

Kobi Moyal, like Gili Vermot, also started in a 6: 0 defeat, but did not play in the final three days later.

Moyal, then a Maccabi Haifa player, remembers well the days between games.

"Professional players know how to make the difference between games, but the mental part will always be significant when there is such a short interval," says Moyal.

"I do not know whether to talk about it in terms of priority, but a team like Maccabi Tel Aviv that lost to Hapoel Beer Sheva this week, will arrive much more prepared and ready for the cup. There is a very large weight here for the professional team. Roni did a good job then. We had better get 0 then. : 6 and not to lose 0: 1. We came to the fore because we got in the head. If Maccabi Tel Aviv had been defeated on Sunday, it would have come under fire. The days after that defeat were really not easy days in Haifa. If it was only 0: 1 for Maccabi Tel Aviv, We probably would not have taken the trophy after that. If Maccabi Tel Aviv had been defeated on Sunday,

"Maccabi Tel Aviv will win in overtime and qualify for the final. It is very difficult to beat the same team twice by such a short margin."

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