Summary: Bnei Sakhnin - Hapoel Beer Sheva 2:0/Sport1
Alon Turgeman was not supposed to play at all, after he left the Hapoel Be'er Sheva hotel in the early hours of the morning and went to the hospital to be with his pregnant wife, who gave birth to his daughter.
But the striker came back to be with his teammates, came on in the 80th minute as a substitute, squeezed a penalty, scored a goal, and gave Hapoel Beer Sheva a ninth league victory in a row, 0:2 over Bnei Sakhnin.
Beer Sheva's gap from first place is only 7 points, before the meeting between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa, and Eliniv Barda's team can afford to look up with a lot of hope, after showing a lot of character today.
A picture that says it all.
Turjeman celebrates/Maor Alxalsi
Proud, and rightfully so.
Breda/Maor Alxalsi
Alon Turgeman
recounts the dramatic day: "The group was at the hotel, in the morning my wife sent me a message at 5:40, 'I feel crazy pressure.' At 6:20 she had already given birth. I went to the hospital, saw the little one, and my wife, she gave me the blessing to go to the game, in consultation with Breda, and I went to the team. And that's it, there is someone up there who arranges things. More than anything, I am happy for The points, a game of character, in difficult conditions, and I am proud of the points.
"We are in a positive and good direction, thinking only about the next game, we are not in a position to make statements.
Aim for all the team and players, this sequence is not something you do on foot, but we only think about the next game."
Eliniv Barda
is also
proud: "A very difficult game, with the way it developed, with the conditions of the field and the suspension.
But we knew that if we didn't take three points today, then it was as if we had done nothing until now.
The players are happy, they deserve it, they worked hard.
Even when we were 10 players we believed we could do it.
"It wasn't the best football, but on a field like this and in conditions like this, you have to know how to take the points by force, and I think we did that.
"The draw?
I'm just thinking about the next game.
We went through a long period with three games a week, and now we'll have time to prepare, and we'll have to fix the good first round we did."
On the transfer window, compared to Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa: "We're together in everything, the management, the players and me.
We will deal with everything we can.
We will want new blood for future struggles, because the league is still long and we will have to help our players."
How frustrating.
Drapich/Maor Alxalsi
On the other hand, the losing coach
Sloboden Drapich
: "I'm definitely disappointed. We had a not bad game at all. We felt we could do it. It's a shame about the red, it's a shame about the penalty, it's a shame that after the victory over Netanya we didn't add another victory that would have brought us closer to the top playoffs "
It's a lack of concentration, a lack of experience, to keep in stationary situations, to be careful of a second yellow, but there's nothing to do.
We will wait for the injured to return to have a full squad, and we are facing forward.
"The second yellow, I think there was a light whistle against us. In the penalty, I'm more angry about our keeping."
"The goal was not to be in the top 6, we built this goal while playing games. If we have a fuller squad, we will be a better team. After Maccabi Tel Aviv, we will be in the games of the rivals who compete for the top playoffs and we will do our best."
Dor Hogi
: "What was missing? Only the goal. We were worth the whole game, and we lost. We have to get points at home, away, it doesn't matter. This year we are having a little trouble at home, there is a team here that plays soccer, unlike previous years, the grass doesn't let us Realize it, and that's why we look better outside than at home."
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