Summary: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Haifa 2:2 (1:3 on penalties) (Sport1)
On the face of it, Hapoel Beer Sheva is supposed to sign the tie this evening in Haifa (Sunday, 20:30).
After all, this is the most difficult away game in the league, against the best team in the league, so what's better than closing on the distribution of a point to each team and moving on to the next rounds in the Premier League?
So that's it, no.
Hapoel Be'er Sheva does not take a draw in advance tonight, and it is not because they are the best away team in the league.
The perfect away team.
Hapoel Beer Sheva lost 10 points in 15 rounds, and all of them were lost in Turner.
Two losses to Maccabi Haifa and M.S.
Ashdod.
Two results drew against Hapoel Haifa and Nes Ziona.
In its away games, Hapoel Beer Sheva had 100 percent success!
But Hapoel Be'er Sheva doesn't believe in the draw tonight, because he won't give them much.
In Beer Sheva they feel: Haifa does not know how to respect.
Nervous Spori (Photo: Danny Maron)
Although Maccabi Haifa has not achieved 100 percent success since the beginning of the season, it is close to that.
In his press conference before the game, Eliniv Barda touched on Maccabi Haifa's success rate this season: 39 points out of a possible 45 were achieved by Barak Becher's players, an 87 percent success rate.
"They are very close to breaking a record," Barda complimented Maccabi Haifa, in a sentence that sums up what he is thinking ahead of the game.
Hapoel Beer Sheva estimates that Maccabi Haifa will hardly lose points against teams other than Hapoel Beer Sheva or Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Hapoel Beer Sheva are convinced that the six points that Maccabi Haifa lost during the season were due to the transfers from Europe to the Premier League.
From the jumps between the Champions League and our football.
From the decrease in tension after the Champions League, from the division of Becher's loads, from the rotation between the players.
Only these led to the fact that Maccabi Haifa will lose twice and from now on it no longer has Europe.
She didn't look like a group about to stumble.
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Beer Sheva celebrates (Photo: Barney Ardov)
To narrow the gap, to fantasize about a championship, Hapoel Beer Sheva needs to win tonight.
A draw will leave the gap at 4 points.
A status quo that will continue to preserve the supremacy of Maccabi Haifa in the Premier League.
Hapoel Beer Sheva's success rates so far are also impressive.
35 points out of 45 before tonight's game is 78 percent, which is a great figure for a team that ran for the championship, but it is a figure lower than that of Maccabi Haifa by almost 10 percent.
Even if a draw sounds like something that Hapoel Beer Sheva should be happy about before arriving at the municipal stadium in Haifa, it will not advance it to the goal it wants: a championship.
Beer Sheva's success rate this season is excellent, but Maccabi Haifa's is amazing.
Atzili (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)
The meetings between Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Be'er Sheva became very heated.
boiling
In almost every away game, yellow cards.
Refined sports hate.
More even than the meetings between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Much more than the meetings between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Beer Sheva.
Recently, fans of Hapoel Beer Sheva explained that in the last two seasons, their feeling is that Maccabi Haifa does not know how to respect the rivalry between the teams.
Maccabi Tel Aviv in the years that Hapoel Beer Sheva won championships, knew how to respect them, while Maccabi Haifa came at them a little condescendingly.
Hence the enmity that developed.
In every press conference before the games, they talk about provocations.
About not being dragged.
That's not really the word.
This is something much more rooted than just provocation, but it is undoubtedly what drives the anger with which Hapoel Beer Sheva comes to the games.
It also helped her, like in the last cup final.
From a practical point of view, her loss tonight ends the season, and we are only on January 1st.
Beer Sheva (Photo: Danny Maron)
No less than tonight's game is an opportunity to narrow the gap, it is Hapoel Beer Sheva's duty to say that it is an integral part of the leading trio.
Even if they counted her less, even if they didn't give her a chance, she is here and more after a respectable campaign in the Conference League.
Tonight she will fight for herself, but after Maccabi Tel Aviv's result last night in Kiryat Shmona, she will also be on the field for the opponent in yellow, and perhaps for all the Premier League fans, who feel that Maccabi Haifa will also be champions this season, and easily.
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