Maccabi Tel Aviv Head Coach Slavisa Jokanovic discussed his side’s 2:1 defeat at the hands of Beer Sheva on Matchday 15 of the WINNER League at Bloomfield Stadium. The loss moves the Yellow-and-Blue down the table to second place, three points behind the desert Reds:

“Congratulating to Beer Sheva. They played a strong game and scored two very fast goals. We played a good game and in the second half we tried to play more offensively. Later in the match we made another switch to press them further. The team tried to do many things to find goals but we weren’t strong enough to collect one point.”

On the first Beer Sheva goal:

“We played a decent football game and made one mistake at the start of the match. There were many minutes where we played good football and tried to keep the team in the game.”

Solutions to find more scoring:

“Dasa scored the goal but we are trying to find a solution to this problem and we’ve tried to fix this issue in the summer and have used various players. But we haven’t yet found the answer.”

Ben Basat in starting lineup:

“He helped us press the opposition and our football was ok in the first half. He was part of the attack and I made a substitution in the second half to change things up.”