Through the back: Maccabi Haifa is once again at the moment of its decision - Walla! sport

2022-05-10T12:08:22.891Z

Rising with your back to the wall? Failing when all odds are in her favor? Barak Bachar's Maccabi Haifa knew quite a few surprising ups and downs, and just before another possible championship game against Maccabi Tel Aviv

Through the back: Maccabi Haifa is once again reaching its decisive moment

Rising with your back to the wall?

Failing when all odds are in her favor?

Barak Bachar's Maccabi Haifa knew quite a few surprising ups and downs, and just before another possible championship game against Maccabi Tel Aviv (20:30), time to remember the highs and lows of the Greens at the decisive points

Shlomo Weiss

10/05/2022

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 2:30 p.m.

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

Immediately after the game against Hapoel Beer Sheva three days ago, Barak Bachar sat down at the press conference and stated: "Every time we supposedly come to a comfortable and relaxed game we look bad and after a bad game we come more prepared. Me and the team try to prevent it but we did not succeed." .

Bachar's words were not accidental and a deeper look at Bachar's period in green shows that Haifa does show its best ability with its back to the wall and shows its weakest games precisely when everyone is sure that nothing can stop the Greens from the Carmel.

From last season's game against Betar Jerusalem to Saturday's game against Beer Sheva, the games that give Maccabi Haifa fans hope that the champagne will open tonight (20:30).

Noble Omar will stand trial following the spitting movement

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Maccabi Haifa - Betar Jerusalem (eighth round 20/21) - 0: 2

After a particularly difficult decade, the Greens have reached the 2020/21 season with the hope that Barak Bachar will change something.

The start was not brilliant for the Greens and for the game against the opponent from the capital, the Greens came with weights on their feet.

A double loss to Hapoel Haifa and Hapoel Kfar Saba preceded the game and in the media, background noises have already begun that another loss may cause another shock in Carmel.

Before the game, Bachar convened his players and told them that he believed in them and that he was sure that this season would be great.

On the green grass they wanted to hold on to the coach, but Nikita Rokavitsia missed Pendel from the start and on the rebound it was Muhammad Abu Fani who scored, but the goal was disqualified because the tie went into the box too soon.

Despite the pressure and the goal that was disqualified, the Greens managed to win with the help of goals by Rokavitsia and Dolev Haziza and set out on eight consecutive victories.

The game of change.

San Menachem (Photo: Danny Maron)

MS Ashdod - Maccabi Haifa (Round 29 20/21) - 3: 0

The Greens will want to forget the start of last season's top playoffs last season.

Haifa started with two draws and came to the game against Ashdod with Maccabi Tel Aviv four points above them and with an extra game.

The Greens knew that another trip would keep the championship title away from them and the pressure in Carmel was particularly high.

"It was the key game of the season," stated a player in Haifa, "Everyone already said we lost the championship but we came and exploded."

Indeed, the Greens exploded on the field when Omar Atzili finished with a double and Yuval Ashkenazi sealed the result of the game when, among other things, Josh Cohen managed to stop Pendel and leave the Greens with a clean sheet.

Explosion in Ashdod.

Noble Omar (Photo: Danny Maron)

Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Haifa (Round 31, 20/21) - 1: 1

The victory in Ashdod took the Greens on a new path, after which Bachar's players added two particularly convincing victories.

Haifa reached the end of the first round of the playoffs knowing that a victory over Be'er Sheva would increase the gap at the top to four points and give a serious advance on the way to success.

Before the game, the feeling was that the Greens had embarked on a path from which it would be impossible to take them off, and the victory over the faltering Be'er Sheva was something that was binding.

In the game itself, Be'er Sheva took the lead from a goal by Sagiv Yehezkel and Charon Sheri was in place to score a great goal from a free kick that only gave Haifa a draw and left the championship fight alive and kicking.

Was in the right place.

Charon Cherry (Photo: Danny Maron)

Kiryat Shmona - Maccabi Haifa (Round 35 20/21) - 1: 1

About 6,000 green fans came to the northern city long hours before the game knowing that a victory would guarantee them a first championship after a decade.

No one, including the people of Kiryat Shmona, believed that it would be possible to stop the champion on the way and the celebrations were already well felt.

On the green lawn they actually had a hard time and it was obvious that the pressure was affecting them.

Despite this, in the 72nd minute Goodsway managed to score Donio and the championship was already a fait accompli for the Greens, but again in moments of comfort Haifa went backwards allowed Mike Amanga to score a huge goal in extra time.

Thousands of green fans came all the way home covered in heads.

Stun the greens.

Amanga (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

Maccabi Haifa - Hapoel Beer Sheva (Round 36 20/21) - 2: 3

Immediately after the game in Kiryat Shmona, all the Haifa players lay down on the grass and the atmosphere was that the championship had already slipped away.

In the days before the closing game against Hapoel Beer Sheva, all the scars of the bad ten years were opened and the feeling was that the team would once again stumble in the moment of truth, but the game against Beer Sheva will not be forgotten in Carmel for many years to come.

If anyone expected the defeat to crush the Greens, he was deceived very quickly and in a great first half Haifa led 0: 3 when at the end they had already taken a foot off the gas and let the game end in a 2: 3 set - after a decade without a championship, you managed to return to Haifa.

Success back (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

Hapoel Jerusalem - Maccabi Haifa (Round 6 21/22) - 4: 1

Haifa did not start the current season well either.

The Greens lost to the hated rival from Kiryat Shalom and then also to Hapoel Beer Sheva.

The Greens came to the game against the newcomer after losses to Be'er Sheva and a defeat against Union Berlin, and once again there was talk of an unconnected team that would have a hard time winning the championship.

In Teddy's game, again with their backs to the wall, everything exploded.

Haifa gained a quick advantage from Dolev Haziza, but then the hosts equalized and again it seemed that the Greens were on their way to disappointment, but then it was Mahmoud Jaber who returned with a pair that put him in consciousness and Donio who determined the result of the game.

out of nowhere.

Jaber (Photo: Danny Maron)

Maccabi Haifa - Hapoel Jerusalem (Round 19 21/22) - 1: 1

After ten consecutive league victories, including the first victory in many years against Maccabi Tel Aviv and a moment after winning the game this season against Hapoel Beer Sheva, the Greens came to the game against Hapoel Jerusalem that was supposed to end with an easy trip.

No one in Haifa and the league even thought about the possibility of losing points and even in Toto they took the Greens off the form.

On the green the grass looked too bloated and Ziv Arieh's players would have looked in large parts of the game superior to the champion.

In the 85th minute, William Agada stunned Sami Ofer and made it 0: 1 for the Reds from the capital, but fortunately for the Greens two minutes later Donio managed to equalize.

"There's no doubt we got too arrogant for this game," a club source recalled, "the feeling was that no matter what we did we won and it exploded in our faces."

Arrogance has cost dearly.

Agada (Photo: Danny Maron)

Kiryat Shmona - Maccabi Haifa (Round 22 21/22) - 1: 2

If there is one game that illustrates how much the Greens stumble when it is convenient for them, it is the game this season against the Northern rival.

Haifa came into the game after a crushing 0: 6 victory over MS Ashdod and it seemed that no team in the country could stop it.

On the other hand, Kiryat Shmona came into the game in the shadow of a well-publicized quarrel between owner Izzy Sheretsky and coach Slobodan Drapic and the question everyone asked was how big would be the defeat of Drapich and his trainees.

In practice, the Greens put on one of their worst games this season and despite another noble goal they went down undefeated with stopper Bogdan Planic even scoring an own goal that dominates the game.

Fall after the 0: 6.

Planich (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

Maccabi Haifa - Hapoel Nof Hagalil (Round 25 21/22) - 1: 1

Thirty thousand greens, including thousands of children and families, arrived at Sami Ofer in the early afternoon on Saturday.

Throughout the week there has been talk of the happening, of the children seeing their parents' group for the first time and of the Galilee landscape serving only as a backdrop.

In practice those children were disappointed, Haifa recorded a particularly weak game but in the 45th minute it was Dean David who jumped the city on its feet.

In the second half the Greens continued to run indifferently and a few minutes before the whistle Abdullah Halihal sent 30,000 disappointed fans back to their home.

Disappointed 30,000 viewers.

Halihal (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

Hapoel Tel Aviv - Maccabi Haifa (Round 32 21/22) - 2: 0

After a very painful defeat to Maccabi Netanya, the feeling was that the championship battle reopened and the Greens came to the game against Hapoel Tel Aviv when the criticisms heard about them became a consensus.

On the grass again Cherry, Noble and the friends proved that when eulogized they stand up like a phoenix and record an excellent first half.

In the second half the pace slowed down but Dolev Haziza was in place to decide the game and send the Greens to celebrations until the wee hours of the night on their way to a second consecutive championship.

Gate sent for celebrations.

Firecracker (Photo: Udi Citation)

Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Haifa (Round 33 21/22) 0: 1

Once again thousands of green fans came to the game that they thought they would officially return from as champions.

Be'er Sheva came crashing into the game with the Greens still drunk from the (too) early championship celebrations.

From the first minute it was clear that the Greens did not appear again and Be'er Sheva was superior in almost every parameter.

In the second half, Abu Fani added to the bad atmosphere when he received a red card and Eitan Tibi was the one who took advantage of the numerical advantage to determine the result of the game.

"There is no doubt that we get better when we come with a feeling that we must prove," states a source in the team, "it should not be like that but in the end if we do win the championship they will not remember it but only the title."

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