Summary: Beitar Jerusalem - Maccabi Haifa 2:0/Sport1
1.
Satisfaction in Maccabi Haifa after the victory 0:2 last night (Saturday) over Beitar Jerusalem. The team was very alert for the game and wanted to keep the place at the top after capturing it for the first time this season. Masai Dago's game plan worked and despite a bad first half, The Greens managed to win smoothly and open a gap of two points over Maccabi Tel Aviv.
"Masai has been instilling in us for a long time the message that if we play together and in an aggressive and purposeful way, it will be very difficult to prevent us from winning," says a player in the team, "It took us a while to connect this season , but now each player understands the other."
The team was satisfied that the team did not concede a goal again and the defensive unit received great compliments. Lorenzo Shimich continues his good performance and garners great compliments. "Lorenzo with confidence is a completely different player.
From game to game he looks better," said the club.
At first it felt like a broken record, now Maccabi Haifa realizes: Degu Tzedek, we are unstoppable.
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2.
As happens almost throughout the season with the Greens, along with the victory the team came out worried that three very significant players came out with injuries from yesterday's game.
The first was Shawn Goldberg who felt pain in his groin.
Then it was Daniel Sondgren who complained of pain in the exact same area.
At the end, Dean David also complained of pain in his knee.
David, Sondgren and Goldberg will be examined today in order to understand the severity of their injury and are in great doubt for the game against Ghent on Thursday.
Haifa hopes that these are not significant injuries, but as mentioned the three will be examined and only after that will it become clear which of them can be at the disposal of Masai Dago next week.
"Obviously these are very significant players, but we have already proven that we don't use excuses," said an official in the team, "we hope they will be fit, but if not - there will be worthy replacements."
And speaking of substitutions, before the game Dago spoke personally with Goni Naor and Maor Kandil and informed them that they would remain out of the squad.
In the conversation, Dego told the two that when players return from injuries, he will have to leave significant players out of the squad each time and asked them not to let this demotivate them.
Now he may need them sooner than expected.
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3.
Along with the game, in Haifa at night they dealt with the complaints of the audience about severe police violence as Magdam.
The fans clarified that they will file complaints about violence and there is even a thought of boycotting games at Teddy in the future.
The "Northern Stand" association of Haifa fans published a statement that read: "The police of the Moriah station probably took the loss hard, because we really do not find any logical reason for their violent and brutal show tonight, contrary to their explicit promises from the past that they would not enter the stand as long as there were no pyrotechnics And there will be no violence.
"Between 80 and 100 police officers (!) masked and without name tags, in a shameful and criminal act in every way, entered our stand because of a legitimate protest flag against the police, which is regularly flown in every field in Israel without any problem.
They dragged innocent fans up the stairs, stepped on them, broke them, choked them and behaved like criminals and not law enforcement.
"We demand that all the police officers who behaved violently this evening be brought to justice, and that we receive their filmed materials. We call on anyone who has documentation of the disgrace that happened today to send us videos and photos in a private message."
The police responded: "Football fans threw a chair and objects and injured police officers who required medical attention. At the end of tonight's football game at Teddy - nine suspects of disorderly conduct were arrested and taken to the police station for questioning. 2 police officers were injured and were evacuated to receive medical attention.
According to the police, "toward the end of the game, the forces noticed that In the stands, fans of the visiting team repeatedly waved a sign condemning policemen comparing them to pigs.
After it was repeatedly waved, police officers worked to remove the sign and in the process, the fans were attacked in the stands by a handful of thugs while spitting and throwing chairs and objects at the police officers.
The violent attack by the policemen injured two policemen, one of whom was hit in the head.
"As a result of this serious violence and the breach of order, 7 were arrested and transferred to the police for investigation. In addition to them, the police arrested 2 more fans who broke the order and attacked policemen in the stadium.
"Even at this time, the police activity continues to secure the dispersion of all the fans of the teams and with the aim of preventing further disturbances and incidents of violence outside to the stadium
"The Israel Police, which lost some of its best men in defense of the security of the state 4 months ago, takes very seriously the humiliation of the police officers and the physical harm to them with serious violence that led to the injuries of the police officers. Anyone who physically harms the police officers will be treated with the utmost severity and we will work to bring those involved to justice."
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 cycle, Maccabi Haifa will host Hapoel Haifa for the derby.
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