Minutes after Maccabi completed a dramatic late comeback by cancelling Hapoel Hadera’s two goal lead on the way to a 3-2 victory, Osher Davida, who scored Maccabi’s first goal on the night faced the media. ”We have mixed feelings” the 24-year-old admitted, “On the one hand we conceded two goals we shouldn’t concede, on the other hand I am proud of all the players, coaching staff etc’ for the character we all showed. We spoke during the interval and said that if we will start moaning and let our heads drop it will not help. Everyone should remain positive, pick each other up do our job and win this match. This is exactly what happened. While I am unhappy with the goals we conceded, but to win a match like that, credit to everyone.”
On the fact Maccabi found themselves trailing by two goals against the bottom of the table side before the halfway mark, Davida said: “It was strange to trail Hadera by two goals, we had a few seconds of shock but after that we just lifted each other and were fine” Davida admitted. As Maccabi conceded goals for the 15th league match in succession, Davida said: “We worked all week on trying to prevent conceding these goals, and it is annoying that it happens. Hopefully, we will work on those things better than what we did until now and hopefully put an end to all this because Maccabi Tel Aviv shouldn’t be conceding a goal in every game and not even a goal in every two matches. We did on the other hand score the most goals in the league which is a positive point I’s rather focus on. If we will manage to correct the number of goals we concede, we will have a happy ending.”
As Maccabi tried changing things around, Davida played in several positions throughout the match, as he tried explaining: “I had a few strange moments to play on the entire left flank in terms of defense. But throughout the second half we dominated the play, and I played mostly as a winger, so it was fine.” Ahead of the Playoff which will kick off after next week’s home match against Hapoel Haifa, Davida echoed what Zarko Lazetic said at the end of the game: “There are no easy matches in this league, but I understand what the coach said that in the top playoff it should be easier for us. We struggle against the small clubs because we struggle to find solutions against a tight and compact match while it is easier against sides that come to play like us as we showed in Europe.”
