Summary of the State Cup: Hapoel Kfar Saba - Maccabi Haifa 6:3/Sport1
In one of the first conversations the Maccabi Haifa people had with Barak Becher after his appointment, the coach received a sort of overview of the monkeys on the club's back that have been created in the last ten years: the sloppiness in meetings against Maccabi Tel Aviv, the difficulty of advancing to the group stages in European frameworks and above all - in the form of championships.
Bacher must have taken that conversation to heart considering his accomplishments.
In the next three years, outside of marching the Greens to three consecutive championships, he broke records time after time and removed a lot of curses and curses from the team.
Group stage in Conference League;
Home stage in the Champions League;
The first team to win the championship in the home stage season in the Champions League;
victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv;
And a host of other records that were broken as if one after the other.
When Bacher left Maccabi Haifa in the summer and Masai Dago was appointed to the position in his place, it is doubtful if anyone thought that the trend would continue.
But Dago managed to surprise here as well, when he led the team to its first ever away win in a European home stage as well as to a victory in Bloomfield over the great rival Maccabi Tel Aviv for the first time in 12 years.
Tonight at 8:30 p.m. Dago and his players will meet Hapoel Beer Sheva and apart from the close competition with Maccabi Tel Aviv and the possibility of definitively removing the team from the Negev from the championship fight, Dago will be able to break Becher's streak of unbeaten league games with Maccabi Haifa.
Continued from the point where Bachar stopped.
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In October 2021, the Greens hosted Hapoel Beer Sheva and in a crazy game that included two penalties, reds and reversals, Roni Levy's team at the time defeated Barak Becher's.
Bacher took the team to a shakedown from which they went on a streak of 16 games without a loss, including 13 wins and three draws.
The streak was broken in an away game against Kiryat Shmona after an own goal by Bogdan Palanich decided.
Since then, Bacher and his team have not been able to break their own record (as you know, the club's all-time record was set during the 1993/1994 season and the beginning of the 1994/95 season, a period of time in which the Greens did not lose at all).
Tonight Dago can improve Becher's record, set the new standard and put the streak at 17 games.
The Greens lost at the beginning of the season in an unforgettable game (for Lorenzo Shimich, of course) to Maccabi Petah Tikva, and since then they have gone 16 games without a league loss (12 wins and 4 draws).
The goal difference in the current streak - 9:38, although a little less good compared to the previous streak in which Becher's team had a goal ratio of 11:50, but the current team kept a clean sheet more times (nine games compared to seven).
Another interesting fact: the only player who started in these 16 games is Sharif Kiuf.
In fact, the goalkeeper has yet to record a league loss as a Maccabi Haifa goalkeeper.
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One way or another, a good result in Turner tonight will be important both on a practical and anecdotal level, especially for Masai Dago who can be proud of improving the record of the man he will probably never be able to overtake in the battle for public opinion.
"The truth is that we didn't know about the existence of the streak and the record," admits one of the Maccabi Haifa players.
"Obviously, it's always nice to continue a streak without losses, but the importance of tonight's game goes far beyond the streak. It's a game that can significantly push us in the fight for the championship."
At least according to recent practices, Dago is still undecided about several positions.
It seems that Franzi Piero, who was responsible for two winning goals against Hapoel Beer Sheva last season, will start in the lineup.
Daniel Sondgren is also expected to start in Dego's 11, with Sharif Kioff returning to the posts.
"The struggles with Beer Sheva are always difficult and always lively, this time we will have to focus on the grass and take advantage of the advantage we have. Today's victory will be another sign that we are going strong to the end for a fourth championship," states a club official.
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