Disappointment at Hapoel Hadera following the 1: 1 last night (Monday) against MS Ashdod, a point that left the team in tenth place with 26 points like Hapoel Tel Aviv, at the end of 24 league rounds.
Before the game in the team, they aimed to come out with a “good result”, especially in light of the ability that the opponent showed throughout the season and especially in its home games. But on the lawn, Menachem Koretzky’s players managed to impress Ashdod with a goal in the 12th minute from the feet of Liran Rotman, precisely after the first ten minutes under the control of the hosts.
Hadera’s game took a turn in the 41st minute. Dia Levabidi received a second yellow card and was sent off in red, this is the third time this season (the most in the league). The club were very angry at the red card when most of the complaints were directed at the defender himself who has just returned from injury and will be out for a while. “This is not his season,” the club said. He can’t create a two- or three-game streak, regardless of ability. ‘
Despite the complaints, there were quite a few Hadera people who calmed the spirits and claimed in half: ‘What do you want from the referee, every whistle of his was iron. A million percent red card, what do we do? ‘ To Babidi himself, by the way, he came out very upset and hit things, kicked with a full cooler that only luckily did not injure him and even looked teary behind his team bench.
The red was perhaps the “straw that broke the camel’s back” and opened the door to incessant complaints against the refereeing team, especially on the part of Koretzky, who claimed before Eitan Shmuelevich the referee from the half until the end of the game some of the following, “Why Eitan? You’re killing us. Ashdod does not need help. You’re not whistling in our favor. ‘
Apart from the defense, the club complimented Maxim Flakushchenko on the ability in the center of the field, as well as Shoval Gozlan, Gustavo Marmentini and Liran Rotman, who scored his second goal in the team uniform. By the way, the club’s management was surprised by Gozlan’s substitution in the 66th minute, since the striker himself did not hide his disappointment and told his coach about it when he left.
At the same time, the team expressed great disappointment at the miss by the goal scorer, who found himself dropping Yoav Grafi twice to the ground, while galloping towards the extension but finally kicking high above the frame. The disappointment was due to the fact that in Hadera they felt that they could have won the game even with ten players, and if Rothman had scored it would have been a goal that might have closed the story for them.
The phrase “he who does not conquer, absorbs” also reached her room when a few minutes later, in the 85th minute, substitute Fahd Bayou conquered and equalized. Perhaps the hardest hit from the equalizer for the team is the injury of Ruby Lewkowicz who was injured in the same move in his shoulder and even finished the game with a swell in the area. Therefore, the goalkeeper will be examined to examine the severity of the injury.
This coming Saturday, Hadera will meet Maccabi Netanya, while one is in survival struggles, while the other is trying to enter the top playoffs before the regular season ends. After that, Hadera expects a meeting with Hapoel Haifa at home and for the first time this season with a home crowd and in the last round before the playoffs open, when the club has not yet decided on how to sell the tickets.