“The club is afraid of relegation”

There were bad feelings last night (Thursday) in Bnei Yehuda, after the team recorded 1: 1 against Beitar Jerusalem, and continued a streak of four rounds without a win. “The players went down to the locker room with their faces down,” said a source at the club, adding: “It’s a big miss because there was a good feeling that you could win the game.

Bnei Yehuda closes the table, is in real danger of relegation and is expected to wage difficult underground struggles in the lower playoffs. But the one who came out of the game cheering was the team’s coach Yossi Aboksis who said: “We had a good ball movement today and we snatched a lot of balls, but in the last third we were very bad. Shai Mazor reached the best position of the game in the first half. “The players give everything and fight, but we are not good enough in the last third.”

“I agree it will end very badly if we do not score,” Aboksis added, “We changed today to a line of four defensive players and I think if we were a little smart, we would win. We will have to restore confidence to the players, and I and the team are with the players for better or worse. “From the bottom teams, Amit Zanti is also coming back now and it is most important that the players from the front play with more confidence.”

Beyond ability, the thing that stood out last night in Bnei Yehuda was the shock that the team performed in the goalkeeper position. As you may recall, the young Omar Niron has been the goalkeeper of Bnei Yehuda since the departure of Emilius Zobas. But last night he was not part of the staff, due to professional decisions of the coaching staff. The one who took his place in the goal and also absorbed is the second goalkeeper Barak Levy.

Despite protests taking place outside Barak Abramov’s home this week, the team’s fans came to the Hatikva neighborhood after the game in order to cheer on the players. Yossi Aboksis’ team, who are deep in the mud, will have to recover very quickly from the disappointing draw, because already this coming Sunday they will host the strong Maccabi Haifa for a difficult meeting, with only six points left in the box until the bottom of the playoffs.