Summary: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Tel Aviv 0:1/Sport1
Hapoel Be'er Sheva are very satisfied with the victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv and do not pay attention to all the background noise around. "We deservedly won," team officials said last night in response to the claims of Maccabi Tel Aviv coach Robbie Keen. "We needed it for ourselves. After three losses to Maccabi Tel Aviv this season, we had to win and regain our respect."
The team hopes to leverage last night's victory for the upcoming games, mainly because Maccabi Haifa awaits next Saturday and Wednesday Maccabi Netanya in the semi-finals of the State Cup. "This victory should bring us back to a strong momentum. Give us all confidence that we are going to Money Time with great faith."
The one who received warm words in the club was the coach Eliniv Barda, who chose to go up with three brakes and made tactical changes and player exchanges according to the developments in the game. Hapoel Be'er Sheva has an option to extend the contract with Breda for next season and it is surprising that this has not yet been done.
Last night's victory was important both to get away from Po'el Haifa again, which threatens Alona Barkat's third place, and to continue to put pressure on Maccabi Haifa, which is in second place. On Saturday, Hapoel Beer Sheva will play an away match against Maccabi Haifa and Barda does not intend to calculate and reserve players for the cup against Maccabi Netanya in the middle of next week.
"We don't look or think about the cup, but only about Maccabi Haifa and the league," the club clarified last night. The one who will be missing is Guy Badesh who was injured again yesterday and strained his hamstring. Breda opted to remove Andre Foucault from the lineup for being late to the pre-match meeting. Or Dadia who came in his place did an excellent job. "He outplayed Milson," the team said of the right back who returned from Scotland and believed he would get more minutes.
Regarding the fact that there were no foreigners in the lineup, Barda said last night: "I didn't even notice. I don't choose the players based on their ID card."