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Maccabi “Shachar” fall 4:3 to Maccabi Haifa

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The Under-19 squad hosted Maccabi Haifa on Matchday 29 of the Israel Premier League. Maccabi “Shachar” began the contest in 2nd place, four points off the top of the table leaders Maccabi Petah Tikva while the Greens sat in 10th place.

Head Coach Guy Tzarfati’s Starting XI: Or Itzhak, Michael Chilaka, Amit Glezer, Yoav Hofmayster, Dan Lugassi, Tamir Glezer, Omri Ram, Ido Shahar, Eduardo Guerrero, Omer Barami, Tal Yagudayev.

First Half
After a quiet first quarter hour, Haifa took a 1:0 lead in the 18’ as Stav Nachmani slotted the ball home from in close. However, just 4 minutes later Ram sent a cross to Yagudayev who found the back of the goal to even up the match at 1:1.

In the 25’ Maccabi grabbed a 2:1 advantage when Lugassi located Ram who put the ball into the left corner of the Haifa goal. Two minutes later the Greens went on the attack but Itzhak was the timely save and in the 31’ Barami sent Guerrero the ball but Sherif Koif made the stop.

Just before the squads went into the break Haifa found the equalizer as Nachmani beat Itzhak on a one on one situation to make the score 2:2 after 45 minutes of action.

Second Half
Maccabi pressed right out of the gate and in the 48’ Tamir Glezer tried his luck from long distance but the Greens keeper made the save and one minutes later Lugassi sent a cross to Guerrero but his header missed the target.

In the 67’ Maccabi regained the lead when Yagudayev found Mufleh Shalata who had come on just minutes earlier to go ahead 3:2. However, in the 75’ Haifa almost drew even once again but Itzhak sent the ball off of the bar to safety. Ten minutes later Haifa just missed the target but a minute later Guerrero was issued a red card due to a foul leaving Maccabi with only ten men.

The Greens took full advantage of the situation and found the equalizer in the 88’ via Ilay Hagag from in close while Guy Dahan scored the winner for Haifa in the 90’ on a counter to hand the visitors a 4:3 win.

Stats and Facts ahead of the final home match of the season against Netanya

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To date there have been 138 matches against Maccabi Netanya: The Record: 68 Maccabi wins, 35 draws and 25 Netanya wins. Goal Differential: 224:146 in favor of Maccabi.

Over the years Maccabi has recorded 1024 league victories. Of those wins, Netanaya is the opponent has the most wins against – 68. Maccabi has defeated Bnei Yehuda, Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Petah Tikva 64 times for second place.

Home record against Netanya – 72 matches: 44 Maccabi wins, 17 draws and 11 losses. Goal Differential: 128:55 in favor of Maccabi.

Maccabi has a 7 match home winning streak against Netanya (2nd longest ever against Netanya).

The record took place in 1968 – 12 home match winning streak.

Maccabi has met Netanya 9 times in playoff action, all of which in the Championship Playoffs. The Record: 6 Maccabi wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.

The biggest Playoff win over Netanya – 4:0 in 1991/92. The goal scorers: Itzik Zohar (2), Meir Melika and Avi Cohen The Jerusalemite.

The upcoming match will be Maccabi’s 10th at the Netanya Stadium out of their last 12 matches. The Maccabi has done this 3 other times in their history and all took place at Bloomfield Stadium in 1964, 1972 and 1973.

Omer Atzili holds two records this season against Netanya:
1. He scored after only 28 seconds (against Netanya, MD17) which was the fastest goal in the Premier League this season. This was also Maccabi’s 3rd fastest goal of all-time.
2. Atzili scored a brace (against Netanya, MD29) after entering the match as a substitute and both goals were via penalty.

In fact, he is the only Maccabi player to score a brace as a substitute over the past 5 years and one of only 13 Maccabi players who have done this. Eli Driks scored 3 goals as a sub in the 1991/92 campaign.

Netanya is the only team that Maccabi hasn’t recorded a goalless draw against (of teams that Maccabi has played at least 15 times). The last 0:0 draw against Netanya was in 2007/08.

Maccabi has scored 4 goals in each of the last two meetings with Netanya. If Maccabi can score at least 3 goals it will be the first time since 2000 that Maccabi has scored at least 3 goals in 3 straight matches against the same opponent (Tzafririm Holon).

Ivic ahead of Maccabi Netanya & lifting the Championship Plate: “This is very special for me”

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Vladimir Ivic, the Maccabi Tel Aviv Head Coach spoke ahead of Saturday’s match against Maccabi Netanya at 18:00:

“I agree that Netanya is one of the bets teams in the league and they proved that all season long. They play an attacking and attractive style of football and it won’t be easy. They have very good coaches and players who deserve respect. We may have beaten them by a high score the past few games but this won’t be an easy one. We’re expecting a difficult game and we have to be focused in order to win.”

Coming into the match after their first loss in league play:
“We’re preparing just like any other week. We we’ll play with the players that we have and we understand that if we aren’t focused and think that it’s finished before it isn’t – it’s not. It’s a big lesson for us and we spoke about it. We have to be focused until the last second.”

About the squad:
“Were at the end of the season and we have some players who have been injured for a long time, Nikolic, Golasa and Micha. The other players have issues here and there.”

Potentially returning Rajkovic to the goal:
“We’ll see. You know that I don’t like to discuss who will play but everyone except for those who are injured can play.”

His first championship:
“This is very special for me and this will be the first time as a first team coach. I believe that these moments belong more to the players. They deserve it and worked hard. After the players there are all of the other staff members who are important as well. We have 95 minutes of a game ahead and we want to win and just focus on the game itself. If we start thinking about what will happen after the game we won’t win.”

Yeini: “We play for happy days like these”

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Sheran Yeini will lift the Championship Plate tomorrow, Saturday 18:00, for the fourth time as the Maccabi Captain and his squad will host Maccabi Netanya and the official championship ceremony will be held at the Netanya Stadium:

“We play for happy days like these. It’s exciting as we have waited a long time. We have to celebrate and honor this championship, because it’s very difficult to win a title.”

The season to date:
“This season has be extraordinary and I don’t know when something like this will ever happen again. We stayed our course all season and we still want to set new records, point gap between first and second place so all of the points that we can earn are important. Championships and titles are very important to us and the battle for them are important. I’m happy that we had this type of season.”

A 4th title:
“It’s my fourth title but I won’t forget the difficult time. We had some rough seasons and that is what pushed us forward. I know that football is like that and I respect every club. I also know that even if a club is at the bottom they can succeed going forward. We have to work hard and be ready because if we don’t do that we can lose the place that we are in.”

About matches against Netanya:
“Matches against Netanya are like roulette with chances by both sides. It happened to be that we had the upper hand over the past few matches but they are an excellent club and it’s always difficult against them.”

Vote for the Factory 54 Man of the Match

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Maccabi Tel Aviv faces Maccabi Netanya this evening and you the fans will be able to vote for the Factory 54 Man of the Match for a chance to win a prize from the sponsor.

All you have to do is wait until the opening whistle, go to this webpage a choose the player who you believe was the best of the best throughout the match. The Man of the Match will be revealed close to the 90′.

For the rules and regulations Click Here.

Tzahov Oleh Zeh Maccabi: The Official 2018/19 Championship Song

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Once again Champions: For the 23rd time Maccabi Tel Aviv won the Israel Football League Championship. Exactly 23 years ago Ethnix released the iconic song “Tzahov Oleh Zeh Maccabi” and now in honor of the latest title we have produced a new song.

Music producer Peter Roth has created a new adaptation of the song, which every Maccabist from birth hasnn’t stopped singing in the stands this season, performed by Hanan Ben Ari, one of Israel’s most respected musicians. The champions themselves joined Ben-Ari and Roth for a special day where the festive championship clip was produced and filmed.

We also want to remind you that you’ll be able to hear the song at Maccabi’s official championship celebrations this Sunday. To secure your place at the event click here.

Watch the clip and song