Three weeks ago, Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated its great rival Maccabi Haifa 0:3 at the Bloomfield Stadium and it seemed that it was completely opening the battle for the championship. Since then, the Yellows have twice finished in a draw against Hapoel Tel Aviv and Bnei Sakhnin, and tonight (Monday) came the first loss in the era of Aitor Karanka, who kept away the runner-up at a distance of 8 points from the leader Maccabi Haifa.
"For me this is the best team in the world because they are my players and I will fight with them until the end," said Karanka in the press conference after the game, "in the end we will make a decision, we will analyze what happened.
Again, I'm not here to criticize the team because it is the best team in the league for sure.
It's a frustrating game, especially the first half.
We didn't take advantage of the things we did before the game, we could have been better in the last pass.
The situations came from our turnovers and we stole the goals in the second half, it's something that's hard to change, but we have to keep working."
On the pressure the players are under: "I don't think it's the pressure. I guess everyone who works at the club knows how to work with pressure, I hope it's not that. I don't know if it's mental, but we conceded one goal, it happens. I can feel the frustration of the players and it's not good for the team. I was in a team that was used to winning and winning titles, I always say that when there are points and there is a race for the title, we want to win the next game"
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Maccabi Tel Aviv goalkeeper Daniel Peretz added about his coach: "I think we should have been braver, worse, especially braver we didn't save from space providers.
We didn't get into situations, but half-situations. We had a problem in the last third and in the last half, we could have been a little more dangerous. In the second half, we got a goal in a more closed game.
This is a very high-quality team and played aggressively with us."
Peretz also commented on the pressure surrounding the players and said: "One way or another, we arrive at the height of our desire to win, even if we don't win we arrive in a frenzy to win. When you arrive at 8 down, of course there is pressure, but we are Maccabi Tel Aviv. There is no game you arrive without pressure . You have to stand by it."
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