Maccabi Haifa is angry: the judges "started the championship fight" - voila! sport

Summary of Hapoel Jerusalem's victory 1:2 over Maccabi Haifa (Sport1)

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Severe disappointment in Maccabi Haifa after the 2:1 loss to Hapoel Jerusalem.

The greens felt throughout the game that they were much better than the host but were unable to "kill" the game and lost after a turnaround within a few minutes at the end.

"It was a fantastic game - you can't define it any other way," stated a player in Haifa, "We should have made the game easy and we were punished. Hapoel Jerusalem did not get into any dangerous situations and scored twice."

The Greens feared euphoria this week after the gap increased to eight points from Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

In Haifa, they were afraid that the players would arrive with a non-committal approach, but despite the loss in the professional team, they made it clear that they were satisfied with the players' approach.

"We played well throughout almost the entire game," stated an official in the team, "we need to analyze the game because within the game itself there was not a moment that seemed to be lost."

Disappointed all the fans who came to Teddy.

Maccabi Haifa players (Photo: Barney Ardov)

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Even before the game, many already crowned the Greens as champions, but the team insisted that it was too early, especially in light of the fact that the team is going to play three consecutive away games.

The fears of the people of Haifa were realized yesterday.

"We said that the story of the championship is not over," said the group, "we really meant it and we still mean it, only we can take it upon ourselves and it's our job to make sure it doesn't happen."

In Haifa they could smile a little after Maccabi Tel Aviv did not take advantage of the stumbling of the greens and ended in a draw against MS Ashdod when the gap dropped to nine points.

Haifa will hope that Beer Sheva will not take advantage of their loss either, and will not come close to five points, when the Greens still have to complete two away games.

"We have nothing to look at in Beer Sheva," said a player in the team, "we need to recover quickly and we have already shown that we can do it and win the next game."

In the team, Omer Azili was once again praised for scoring another goal and leading the fight for the goal crown against Eran Zahavi.

Atzili has now, five games before the end of the season, compared his balance sheet from last season and found one goal (at least according to the league director's count, which is responsible for the individual title) above Zahavi who has 19. Those who came down disappointed

after the game were Mavis Chibuta who again did not record minutes A game and Franzi Piero who entered only in the final minutes.

The judgment boiled them.

The champion complains (Photo: Barney Ardov)

Angry Firecracker: Watch the reactions after the game

The reactions of Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Jerusalem after the 1:2 victory of the Reds in Teddy (Sport 1)

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Along with the disappointment of the loss, in Haifa they were also angry at the refereeing and convinced that they had been wronged.

In Haifa, they did not understand how Hapoel Jerusalem's second goal was confirmed so quickly, and are convinced that in light of the television footage, the goal should have been easily disallowed on the grounds that Harel Shalom's ball crossed the line before passing a cross.

Today, the Greens will submit a request to the referees' union to receive the audio of the conversation between the center referee and the screen referees in order to understand how the decisions were made on the penalty and especially on Ofek Biton's goal.

"100 percent illegal goal," officials in Haifa stated and added: "This goal and the penalty that was not whistled in Reina opened the fight for the championship."

The players were also very angry with the referee.

"There are no excuses and we shouldn't have lost even with the mistakes," said a player in Haifa, "but they took away a precious point from us here."

At its peak at the right moment.

Azili is on his way to becoming the top scorer (Photo: Barney Ardov)

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In Haifa they were doubly disappointed in light of the display of the crowd that came in droves to the away game at Teddy.

The Greens once again praised the crowd and noted that "words have run out" to describe the amounts the crowd brings to the home and away games and what it means to the team.

"The crowd was worth a lot of points this season," the club states, "it is never taken for granted for us that they come in such a quantity."

Among the players there were a lot of nerves at the end of the game due to the feeling that they sent all 16 thousand fans who came home disappointed.

"This is the worst thing," stated one of them, "We wanted to make all the fans happy and let them feel that it was worth going all the way, and that is the biggest failure in this game."

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