Karanka admits: "It was not easy to prepare for the game." Yeni: "It will be interesting with him" - Voila! sport

An encouraging opening for Aitor Karanka in Bloomfield: Maccabi Tel Aviv tonight (Saturday) defeated M.S. 0:3.

Ashdod under the new coach, and temporarily narrowed the gap with Maccabi Haifa at the top of the Premier League.

Djorja Jovanovic scored a pair (37 and 52) and equaled Nicolasco as the king of league goals, Eran Zahavi (76) sealed the result, and the Yellows can be encouraged after good minutes, after a faltering start.

Three points, encouraging minutes.

Maccabi Tel Aviv celebrates (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

He didn't have time to absorb it yet.

Crank (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

Karanka: "I heard a lot about the Maccabi crowd. It was a tough game, and we have a lot of work to do, but playing in front of this crowd will be a pleasure, because I know it's a demanding crowd. We had two days to prepare, I didn't want to touch on many things, or analyze in depth, just I tried to take care of a few things, and the players did an excellent job. In the second half we were good, at halftime I told the players what needed to be done, and we improved."

According to the coach, "I only had two days to prepare, it wasn't easy, I don't want to say difficult, but I'm happy that Torijho is with me, who knows Barak and the players and Israel, and he helped me, it's teamwork."

Sharan Yeni on the 0:3: "It wasn't easy, we worked hard. The exiles started the game, which became different."

On the departure of Vladan Ivić: "He's a professional, we enjoyed working with them, everyone was always on their toes with him. A person who can go and advance and gets an opportunity, that's great. We're a good team that has proven that it can properly deal with a change of coaches. The team now has a week to work with us, They make a good impression. We need to get to know them, we haven't yet had the opportunity to sit down with them and give the audience tactical training, they have a team that is hungry to teach us and invest, and it will be very interesting."

On the rest of the season: "I always believe, the differences in points in this period do not show who will win the championship. We believe in the road, we don't look at other teams, we could have won the games against Kiryat Shmona and Nes Ziona as well and the gap could have been different. We now have more difficult games , also against Haifa, and we hope to come out of it well."

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Ran Ben Shimon: "We fell in quality, the better team won. To beat Maccabi Tel Aviv in Bloomfield, we lacked offensive qualities. When you face them and go for passing attacks, you need more sharpness, and we didn't have that. We know that we lacked quality in the front , maybe in the center of the field, and we are doing to add players to the squad. I hate these sentences, as if these are not the games where points are sought. With all the regret, we will have to prepare for the following weeks, with a different energy."

On the possibility that Hamodi Kanaan will leave: "As a coach I am prepared for any scenario."

Jerfi: "It's a shame that the result ended against us, and for us there is a season game next week. We started relatively well, we got into good situations, we didn't translate it into goals, and Maccabi knew how to make a goal out of its situations."

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