If Maccabi Tel Aviv does not win the championship this season, it will surely mark the draw against Beitar Jerusalem as one of the games that caused it. This morning (Tuesday), the Yellows look at the leader Maccabi Haifa with the gap between the teams standing at 8 points and the feelings in the club vary between great skepticism and those who claim, "Fight to the end."
True, mathematically if the yellow-blues beat Maccabi Haifa next week and reduce the gap to five points, they might still have a chance, but with any other result it will be difficult to see the championship returning to Kiryat Shalom.
"Things are not up to us at the moment," admitted captain Eran Zahavi, "Maccabi Tel Aviv goes to the championship every year even without me. Every season Maccabi doesn't win a championship it's a tragedy, certainly in a season like this when several very important players arrived. The goal is still a championship and we don't give up Hands. If we had taken 3 points against Beitar it would have looked different, but we have a season game next week and we will do our best until the end of the season."
In Maccabi, they were furious with the refereeing team due to Derrick Lucassen's dismissal, and this also angered Zahavi: "In my opinion, the decision is controversial. Even if a penalty is whistled, I see no reason to issue a red card. It would have ruined a game with all the good atmosphere. It's easy to whistle against us this year. If you want, I I'll show you a table with my and Jovanovic's data that until the game against Beitar he and I received 8 fouls per player, in other teams there are 30 or 40 fouls for the attacking players.
These figures took me out of my peace, but we will have to beat this too."
Eran Zehavi.
Boiled over Derrick Lucassen's suspension, photo: Danny Maron
Maccabi were very satisfied with the performance of Andre Geraldes, who presented his best game of the season in Maccabi and even scored the second goal for Zahabi.
Before the arrival of Aitor Karanka, the defender was already a foot and a half out of the team, but now the chances are increasing that he will continue until the end of the season.
By the way, Karanka did not like the first 30 minutes of the game to say the least and at halftime he said to the players: "I don't understand why you started playing well only after we were down to ten players?".
Karanka told the media that despite the gap of 8 points at the top: "Obviously I believe that it is still possible to win the championship. We are going to fight every game until the last day thinking that we are going to win this league."
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