The 28-year-old faced the media at the end of the match and tried explaining his side’s failure to win for the second match in succession: “Ultimately, like we said before the match, we arrive to do our jobs and try win every game. As soon as we don’t win two matches in succession and are not where we want to be it is our problem. As soon as we show up not aggressive enough, it is simply not good enough and then the simple actions or the chances we create don’t go in. One thing just leads to another. We need to learn and move on from here. We would like to win every game we still have left this season and we still have the State Cup Semi Final left to play”.

While Maccabi are unbeaten in the Playoffs, the team hasn’t won in the last two attempts or managed to string a set of victories, as Peretz admitted: “We are no where near being good. We are a team that would like to compete for the league title in every season and such statistics are simply not good enough. We need to learn our lesson and simply show up a better team to every game”.