Just before stopping the Premier League again, Maccabi Tel Aviv will tomorrow (Thursday) have the opportunity to narrow the gap from Maccabi Haifa to only six points – that is, if they beat Bnei Yehuda. Ahead of the game, Alexander Peshich He talked about the preparations for the upcoming game and also about the adaptation in Israel.
“From the first day here I felt at home. The players helped me a lot as they help foreigners here, people at the club helped and everyone wanted to help,” Peshich said. “I feel good because I know the players better and I also feel better in games and training.”
Peshich also admitted that it took him a while to get into playing shape, with the Corona playing a role in his progress: “I played in Korea and the league stopped in Asia early because of the Corona. “10 months. Now, I’m starting to feel better physically, in the first games I felt good at first and then I got tired but now I feel much better.”
On the game against Bnei Yehuda: “I treat every game like a big game. When you play in a big club like Maccabi you must not win. For us every game is a big game. We also know that the other teams give us more than 100 percent because they want to show that they “Favors and their players want to show it. We have to win this game because we have a chance to close the gap.”
On the forced break and the lack of crowds on the pitches: “This is a difficult time for everyone. If people stay home and can’t go out to restaurants or be on the street, it should at least be football on TV. People need something, but that’s just my opinion. “Without fans and in my eyes it’s not a derby if there is no crowd in the stadium. That’s how I felt in the Red Star uniform in Serbia, and I feel it’s similar here too. We need the fans back in the stadium.”
