On the way to another championship? Maccabi Tel Aviv completed a makeover in the table tonight (Monday), when they defeated Betar Jerusalem 1: 4 with a purposeful display and climbed to first place in the table for the first time this season. The Yellows recorded their ninth consecutive league victory and just look fantastic.
“I was definitely waiting for this goal,” he said Itay shechter At the end. “I work very hard in training, there were times when I played less and it’s not easy. When you are in a club like Maccabi Tel Aviv you need to know that there is rotation. In the first round I hardly played, but I’m glad that since Patrick came the rotation has gotten better and deeper. “In heating them, it gave us strength and we thanked them at first.”
“The first half was not good enough for us,” the player added. Betar managed to embarrass us with a few passing attacks. In the second half we started stronger and managed to calm the game. Click on us? At Maccabi Tel Aviv we need to know how to deal with pressure, even at 8 points we knew that if we stumbled, it was a problem. Better than Maccabi Haifa? I look at Maccabi Tel Aviv, we need modesty, we will talk at the end of the year who is better. “Whoever takes the championship will be better.”
The striker was then asked if this would be the biggest championship, and replied: “Unequivocally, the biggest in my time for sure. Reducing such a gap is amazing. But the road is long, we will work hard, I believe in it. Modesty is the most important today, respect the opponent from the beginning till the end”.
“It was a successful evening for our team,” he concluded Patrick Van Leven. “Good performance, good goals and I think the victory came to us. We tried to play our game and some things worked out according to what we trained for. The other team had a hard time and they had to deal with it. We were good at scoring in situations we created. We could have scored another goal or two. “.
On his staff and running, the coach added: “Our players have quality, I do not improve them but we use their quality properly. It also shows that the team is well united. It does not matter if they play or sit on the bench and encourage each other. I do not stop. “I think if it’s crazy or not, but I enjoy it. I enjoy the team during training and when trying to get better. I enjoy watching the players do things during the games. I enjoy the work and the progress of the players.”
When asked if he thinks about what would have happened if he had been a coach since the start of the season, he replied: “We are not touching on this issue. First place? It is our intention, to continue playing like this every week and even better. We will work on it. Success will come from the team’s hard work “.
