Summary: Beitar Jerusalem - Maccabi Haifa 2:0/Sport1
Maccabi Haifa tonight (Saturday) achieved a seventh victory from the last eight league games and increased the gap at the top of the Premier League to two points.
The Greens beat Beitar Jerusalem 0:2 away from home and took advantage of Maccabi Tel Aviv's stumble against Bnei Sakhnin to move away from it in first place. A
satisfied Masai Dago commented at the end on the turnaround at the top: "I always believed in this team, from my first day.
Even a month ago when the situation was more difficult.
Three weeks ago, in the first game against Maccabi Tel Aviv, there were 60 points in the pot.
I told the players that if we continue to be united, we will do it.
Even now there are 45 points in the pot.
Nothing is finished.
We only look at ourselves, we came with a good attitude.
Beitar has quality players, I'm proud that we played a second game in a row without conceding."
Everyone who plays provides the goods: "There is an amazing squad here. Today for the first time I took out Goni Noor who against Maccabi Tel Aviv came in excellently, Maor Kandil scored goals against Hapoel Kfar Saba, and we are still without Dolev Haziza and Pierre Corneau. We were very short in a busy period, now We have two games against Ghent and in the middle of a derby, but we will fly to Budapest and do everything to pass the stage."
Upheaval at the top.
Maccabi Haifa/Danny Maron
How do you manage a squad where senior names don't start in the lineup: "Although they are bench players, whoever comes out here will start in the lineup in any other team. Everyone respects the fact that there is very tough competition, both for a place in the roster and for the lineup. Every player in Maccabi Haifa is very important to me".
Maintaining the advantage at the top: "We must understand that nothing is over. There are five more games until the playoffs and then another 10. The road is long, you must not look at the table."
Sodengren Midfielder: "There was a period when we didn't look good defensively, I thought about the idea of changing the formation. The players took it very well. As soon as Jaber got injured, I preferred someone with cold feet. Daniel told me that he also played in Greece in this position, he got a little injured today And that worries me. There are players here who can each play in several positions."
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Will look for points elsewhere.
Gal Cohen/Danny Maron
Gal Cohen concluded from the disappointed side: "It always sucks to lose, certainly when we really need points. We met an excellent and powerful opponent and we gave everything until the 90th minute, but we will have to get points by the teeth elsewhere. We didn't go backwards and we didn't stand on the field and wait - we did try to play football And attack. All week I talked to the players about faith, if you don't have faith then nothing is worth it."
The Beitar coach added: "Maccabi Haifa has the physicality of a European team, I wanted more physical players so they could compete, so I started with George and Friday together.
The consideration was physicality.
We knew we were playing against the team in the best shape in the country, we tried to do something different.
Her strengths and her physicality are above the level in the Premier League."
Cohen commented on the fact that Oral Degani remained out of the squad: "I don't want to talk about players personally.
I don't think our defensive play was bad.
We suffered a terrible minute from losing the ball and Halaili did a great job.
The second one was also from a foreign publisher.
We didn't give up and I take good things from the game."
Premier League 2023/24
Group
games
victories
draw
losses
gates
points
1
Maccabi Haifa
21
15
4
2
15-47
48
2
Maccabi Tel Aviv
21
14
5
2
18-41
46
3
Hapoel Haifa
20
12
4
4
22-30
40
4
Hapoel Beer Sheva
20
12
3
5
16-40
39
5
Maccabi Bnei Reina
21
7
7
7
23-24
28
6
Bnei Sakhnin
21
5
11
5
27-21
25
7
Maccabi Petah Tikva
21
7
4
10
38-25
25
8
Maccabi Netanya
20
7
3
10
29-24
24
9
Hapoel Tel Aviv
21
6
5
10
34-29
23
10
Beitar Jerusalem
21
7
5
9
30-30
22
11
tax.
Ashdod
21
5
5
11
32-18
20
12
Hapoel Jerusalem
20
5
4
11
27-19
19
13
Hapoel Hadera
21
5
3
13
35-14
18
14
Hapoel Petah Tikva
21
3
7
11
31-15
16
In the next round, Maccabi Haifa will host Hapoel Haifa for the derby, while Beitar Jerusalem will play away against Bnei Sakhnin.
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