Last night (Wednesday), Maccabi Haifa defeated Hapoel Tel Aviv 1: 2 and returned the gap from Maccabi Tel Aviv to five points. The first half was great for the Greens who scored twice, but in the second half the momentum shifted to the Reds and the good ability of the defense and the goalkeeper, Josh Cohen kept the score.
At the center of the game was the Spanish midfielder, Jose Rodriguez. Before the meeting, he was informed that his relative had died of the corona virus in Spain, and despite this he insisted on going up and playing. All the players on the team came up with black ribbons by them. After the goal scored by Charon Cherry he ran to embrace the Spanish midfielder and then came the moment of Rodriguez, who from an extension corner fired a ball from the air into the net. All the Maccabi Haifa players came to hug him and there was excitement on his face.
Symbolically, his debut goal in the green uniform came after the tragedy and the goal he dedicated to his late relative. At the end, he was broken and on the verge of tears, and the people of Haifa tried to strengthen him. The contact tweeted: “I will never forget the love and support you shower on me at this time which is one of the hardest in my life. Thank you very much.”
Back to the game. Barak Bachar made two changes from the victory against Urbani KS. He brought Sun Menachem back to the squad as well as Charon Sheri. Haifa started with three attacking players with a natural left foot. Haifa came up with many opportunities in the first half, in the second half the Greens went backwards, but were dangerous in outbursts with the substitutes, Muhammad Awad, Maor Levy and Yanik Wildshot, who reached a number of winking opportunities.
Barak Bachar Concluded the game: “It was hard, but sweet. We did a good first half and we could finish the game. In the second half Hapoel dominated and we were a bit lucky, we need to know how to win games like this. It is difficult to restore good ability over 90 minutes or throughout all games. .
The offensive striker, Goodsway Donio stopped his streak of conquests after four games. During the game, he felt tenderness in the back thigh muscle, will be examined in the coming days and is in doubt for Maccabi Petah Tikva. Bachar will get back the king of league goals, Nikita Rokavica who has recovered from the corona virus and will return to full training as well as Eid Habashi who completed the suspension following the events of the derby.
Bachar addressed the issue: “The whole squad is important, I unfortunately only made three substitutions, because Goodsway was injured and I only had one last beat. I could not share more players. I hope in the next game we can share more players because they are under a lot of pressure.”
