On Wednesday it finally happened. After more than 11 hours, Hapoel Tel Aviv finally scored a goal in the Premier League, which also gave them a valuable victory over Bnei Sakhnin. The conqueror, Shachar Hirsch, told “Open Ground” about the feelings: “I’m glad it’s behind us and I hope we don’t have to count more things like that. No doubt it’s in the head, but the bigger pressure was that we went to an away game that must win, and no choice. “It exists, but in our situation it is super significant. The desire to score is very great, but more than that the desire to win and usually it comes together.”
And who about the next games? “Whoever has seen the game, we have only reached 100% goal situations in the last 10 minutes and we will have to take advantage of them, put this thing behind us and calm the situation. Maybe after we won it will calm down a bit, and I hope we can kill games a little faster, because it “Stresses us and our fans too much.”
Hirsch himself does not personally take the contempt for Hapoel Tel Aviv’s attack: “The job of others is to talk, my job is to be silent and do on the field what I know. Sometimes I can and sometimes not. Both as a team and as an individual. It is not an easy time for anyone. “I will score and the team will lose, maybe only I will feel good. In football there are many difficult moments and few happy moments that are played for them, and yesterday was such a moment.” And when does he plan to have his next gate? “I hope the next goal is on Monday, in the derby. That’s the next goal.”
“The last year has been very difficult for me,” the striker added. “With an eight-month out injury, after which I returned to fitness for a month and then suddenly there was a closure and we didn’t train. After that the closure had consequences, like on an athlete, and I suffered a small tear in the back thigh muscle. The first thing I want is to be healthy and bring my ability to exercise “.
Hirsch, who will be 28 in two months, was asked what prevented him from realizing his potential, and replied: “At a younger age I made wrong decisions that were more exciting and less intelligent. Leaving Maccabi Haifa was a mistake and I hurried to go to the questions, because I felt I had to play all the time. “And a great club are not in a hurry to leave. In the end we are all smart in retrospect, but I think it’s not too late and I have a lot more to prove and show. There are pioneers who broke even at a later age than me.”
“I have been at Hapoel Tel Aviv for four years and there is nothing I have not gone through,” Hirsch concluded. “League drop, layoffs, problems, messes, releases, good football, less good football, top playoff and lower playoffs. It’s a super stressful club and there is no doubt that much better results should be provided. The easiest to visit, but this year we had some good games we missed. “We created a lot of situations compared to previous games. We will have to be more calm, smart and considerate and if we can gain confidence through victories and points, it will be easier. I believe we will stay in the league.”