The 300 fans who came to Yad Eliyahu Hall last night (Monday) received full compensation in the form of the victory in the highest gap that Maccabi Tel Aviv recorded this season in the league – 44 points (63: 107) over the helpless Nahariya. The players in yellow received support from the stands in a league game for the first time in about a year – and returned with a sharp performance in front of the table lock.
The festive event was overshadowed by the injury of Yuval Sussman, But last night at the end of the game at Maccabi Tel Aviv, they expressed optimism that this was a less serious injury than they thought in the first phase. However, Sussman is still expected to be out for an extended period. The guard / forward underwent an MRI scan tonight and the results will be clear today.
Apart from the startling injury, the “talk of the day” at Maccabi was, of course, the return of the crowd. “Let me not talk about the game, the most important thing was the presence of the crowd,” said the coach Yannis Sapropoulos At the end, “Although these are only 300 fans but they warmed us up and supported us throughout the game. I want to thank everyone who came and I hope to see more and more fans gradually in the future. I am pleased with everyone’s performance in the game.
The Greek said that he especially missed the cries of “Yannis, Yannis”: “This is the first time in all of Maccabi’s history that it played without an audience, so you understand how important it is for the team. “Love me and I love them. We missed them and this season without them it would not have been the same if we had them from the first moment. The pressure of the crowd produces for us one of the warmest homes in Europe, the push they give our team is tremendous and we missed it.”
Now, the face of Maccabi Tel Aviv for this coming Thursday, so it will try to get back on the winning track in the Euroleague when it is hosted by Bayern Munich. Maccabi hopes to train Scotty Wilbkin, who is suffering from a thumb injury, and Othello Hunter, who fell ill this week.
