Head Coach Lito Vidigal spoke about his Club’s 1:0 win over Hapoel Haifa on Matchday 26 and final game of the Ligat Ha’Al Regular Season as the Yellow & Blue will now turn their sights on the Championship Playoffs and a date next week with Bnei Sakhnin at home. The Angolan discussed the importance of the win, his objectives and the match that was:

“When I came here, my objective is to win all of the remaining games and we have been doing that up to now. We’ve won all of the games that we’ve played. We now have 56 points the same as Beer Sheva and that’s a good number. We are fighting for something bigger and something better in the fuutre. Most importantly we took the 3 points and the players gave all they had. Now we have to look ahead to the Championship Playoffs.”

Barak Itzhaki being upset when he was subbed off:

“You have to ask him, but we all have to think of the team first. We have to work for the team and by doing that Maccabi will be bigger than everything else. I need warriors and fighters here to battle for all of the games, My objective is to win all of the games if we do that then we will win the title.”

His team’s effort:

“The first half we played well and most importantly we took the three points. There are certainly points of the game where we needed to play better and we have to play well fro longer stretches of the game.”