Maccabi Haifa came last night (Wednesday) with claims to referee Gal Leibovitch for the red card he drew to the team's striker, Franzadi Piero, already in the 23rd minute, in the away game against Hapoel BS (the Greens lost 2:1). Although the club's management criticized the decision and were Those who said that "you don't pull out a red card like this in a game with such a high profile, it destroyed the game", coach Masai Dego admitted: "I was angry with Piero at that moment and he knows it".
One thing is indisputable in Maccabi Haifa, and that is that Piero had to calm down and not be drawn into protests towards the referee, even if in their opinion he did not deserve a red card.
Alongside Dego's anger at Pierrot, it is important to emphasize that the striker from Haiti is considered one of the coach's favorites from the beginning of the season.
"Masai loves Ot Piero and believes in him very much, even if it means going against the foreigners in certain things," claimed officials at the Carmel club.
Among the players, it is claimed that Piero was surprised by the red card and told them that "nowhere in Europe are players sent away for clapping. It is not a curse and there is no reason to send a player away for that".
At the same time, the players talk about the pressure on the tall striker in recent weeks and especially since Tomer Hamed signed with the club as another striker and has been providing the goods ever since.
Between Dago and Piero there is a relatively close system.
In conversations with him, Dago made it clear that he was behind him in any case, something that calmed Piero at the beginning of the season and helped him to express himself with 10 league goals.
"Now there is more competition and everyone will have to take it to a positive place and not to nerves," clarified the green club.
Piero Shoof at the end of the game, yesterday at Turner, photo: Danny Maron
Piero was injured about two weeks ago in his hamstring and the team says that he did everything to return as soon as possible for fear of losing his place.
Dago, in an act of trust, immediately returned him to the lineup against Hapoel KPS and continued with him against BS.
Now, the top scorer of the champions will be absent from this season's match against Maccabi Tel Aviv, which will be held this Monday at Sami Ofer. It is important to remember that Piero was absent from the previous season's match against the Yellows, in which Haifa won 0:1 away from home and that was not long ago.
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On Monday against the Yellows, Dego will have to decide whether he will go with a fast forward and in that case Dean David will play as a striker, or give Tomer Hamed the team shirt, after he scored three goals in the two games he participated in since signing with the team.
"Nothing is over," the club clarified, "one loss after 16 league games doesn't close anything, you have to come to win the game this season and the momentum will turn back."
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