Doron Ben Dor
Maccabi Haifa players and the professional team thank the audience (Omri Stein)
Regardless of a possible win for the championship, Maccabi Haifa is expected to announce during the next month that its coach Barak Bachar will continue next season as well. Haifa has great satisfaction with the work of the coach who led the team yesterday after a decade to first place at the end of the regular league, all just before the screen rises to the top playoffs where Haifa will face Maccabi Tel Aviv for the championship title.
Bachar is highly esteemed and it is clear that the club’s leaders, led by President Yaakov Shachar, are satisfied not only with the football the team has demonstrated throughout the regular season but mainly with the way and the industrial quiet that the coach and the team brought radiating on every part of Kfar Galim. “This is the best coach in the country,” they said in Haifa. By the way, Shahar, who can be satisfied with the results so far and the fact that his team is strong in the race for the championship title, went down to the locker room yesterday at the end of the game against Maccabi Netanya and congratulated the players on Passover.
Haifa finished the regular league with 19 wins and a goal difference of 20:52. Yesterday’s victory against Maccabi Netanya (0: 2) was achieved in one of the team’s least good games this season. Immediately after Sharaz Meir scored the winning goal, Haifa for some reason lost direction, which was used almost to the end by Netanya who took over the field and tried to embarrass the Haifa defense. In place of Chiron Shari, who was weak, it is possible that Netanya would have been able to equalize.
Cherry is having a hard time restoring his good ability since the beginning of the season and it seems that the midfielder is having a hard time expressing himself from his position as a midfielder, especially since Cherry is “soft” when it comes to expecting him to help in the defensive game.
Nikita Rokavica, who won credit despite the weak game in the cup against Maccabi Petah Tikva, regained consciousness when he cooked and scored just before he was replaced. The one who is having a hard time contributing his share and his chances of continuing next season are low is Yannick Wildshot who also failed time and time again yesterday in the last action.
Bogdan Planic, who will not play when the playoffs open against Maccabi Petah Tikva due to yellow cards, will return to play in the first game of the season against Maccabi Tel Aviv, which will take place at Sami Ofer. In Haifa, it is hoped that by the time of the game, the Ministry of Health will approve bringing in a double amount and more than the amount allowed today and stands at 5,000 fans.
