Maccabi Tel Aviv midfielder Dan Glazer told reporters at Thursday’s pre-match news conference ahead the TASE Premier League clash with Hapoel Hadera in Netanya on Saturday (kickoff 19:50) that he was confident of more success.

“We work hard and look for every detail and we train hard to be able to look our best. I am playing well and the team is too,” he said.

“We are exactly halfway through the season and we look only at ourselves, we just hope we don’t falter at any point.”

“We have just completed a tactical briefing ahead of the game, it’s going to be a tough one. Hadera will close down their defence and go for counter-attacks. It worked for them first time and we didn’t win but I hope we can win this time.” 

“We prepare for every possible situation in training and the fact that we have conceded only four goals in 18 games tells you all you need to know about us. We are Maccabi Tel Aviv and we want to win all our games.”

“The game against Maccabi Haifa was a crazy game and we scored four times but in some games there aren’t many chances so you have to take them when they come along.”

“We should have scored one against Beitar to win, but we didn’t.”

Maccabi Tel Aviv coach Vladimir Ivic said in the pre-match news conference ahead of Saturday’s away TASE Premier League clash with Hapoel Hadera that Maccabi’s rivals have improved since their last meeting in October, a goalless home draw. “They are organised, they know how to attack, how to defend and are good at set pieces.

Maccabi Tel Aviv will play Hapoel Hadera in Netanya in the 19th round of the TASE Premier League on Saturday (kickoff at 19:50) and tickets are now on sale.

Tickets are available through the Lean ticket agency at 42 Frishman Street, via phone on *8780 or here, on our official web site.

Ticket prices for Maccabi supporters:
66 shekels at the Lean ticket office, or 71 shekels via telephone or web site order.

Loyalty points will be awarded to Maccabi scheme members for purchases for this fixture. Members who accrue more points get priority to buy tickets for away fixtures where there is high demand and only a limited number of seats:

Season ticket holders for the 2019-20 season will get three points per ticket.

FOREVER+ members who are season ticket holders will be awarded six points.

FOREVER+ members who are not season ticket holders will receive three points.

Non-loyalty scheme members will receive one and a half points.

Note: In order to confirm points, season ticket holders must state their membership number when making their purchase. Non-season ticket holders who want to collect points must purchase their tickets through the Lean web site and log on with their personal details.

Fans who have bought tickets but are no-shows at the stadium for the match will have their points deleted automatically.

Please note that tickets will not be distributed at the stadium booths on match day. They must be printed at home or downloaded on to smart phones.

Maccabi Tel Aviv ended their home TASE Premier League match with Beitar Jerusalem in a goalless draw on Monday, much to the disappointment of the home team and fans who were in full voice in Haifa. Midfielder Omer Atzili gave his all during the 90 minutes but the players had nothing to show for their efforts.

“We expected more,” Atzili said after the game.

“I think this game was more closed than the previous one against Maccabi Haifa when both clubs came out wanting to win and there were more open spaces. But Beitar made life difficult for us, so we will need to find solutions and I hope things will look different on Saturday.”

Atzili, who was one of the most dominant players on the pitch, said that while Maccabi had shown intensity, Beitar played many long balls that made it difficult for the Maccabi players to mount increased pressure on their opponents’ goal.

“We prepare differently for every game but there are things we should have done and didn’t, and we should have been more creative,” he concluded.

Hosts Maccabi Tel Aviv were held to a goalless draw by Beitar Jerusalem at Sammy Ofer Stadium on Monday in a fast-paced game that lacked accuracy and inventive play by both teams.

Maccabi held the vast majority of possession and put the ball in the net once, but from an offisde position, and had a number of other reasonable chances. Beitar, although playing mostly in their own half, also had a clutch of their own attempts on the Maccabi goal but never looked like seriously threatening Daniel Tenenbaum’s goal. 

It was a fourth goalless draw for Maccabi this season, and the first time in eight years that either of these two clubs have failed to get a decisive result against each other.

After 18 rounds of play, Maccabi lead Maccabi Haifa by four points in the TASE Premier League standings. Beitar are in third place, still 10 points off the pace.

A dynamic game with the crowd chanting loudly and constantly throughout made for an electric atmosphere. Maccabi held the lion’s share of possession in the first half and attacked the Beitar goal incessantly, but they had little to show for their efforts and due to some poor finishing. 

Beitar stormed into the second half determined to sting Maccabi on the counter, and set up a decent situation within the first minute, but the Maccabi defence, which had been alert in the first half, saw off the danger.

Within two minutes, Maccabi had the first real chance of the game when a beautiful curling left foot shot by Omer Atzili in front of goal from the edge of the area was well saved by Itamar Nitzan in the Beitar goal. Beitar’s Anthony Varen headed straight into the hands of Tenenbaum in the 55th minute and Beitar’s Levi Garcia shot over the bar in the 68th minute.

Maccabi striker Chico Ofoedu, who scored twice in the 4-0 away win in the first phase win over Beitar at Teddy Stadium came on as substitute in place of the ineffective Itay Shechter and finally put the ball in the net in the 71st minute just as Dor Micha came on for Avi Rikan, but Ofoedu was in an offside position when he received the ball and the goal was ruled out.

Ofoedu was almost sent clear on his way to goal with Beitar’s defence beaten late on and he would have scored had it not been for an alert Nitzan in the Beitar goal, who came well out of his area to head the ball away from danger.