Eyal Golasa was part of the Yellow & Blue side that moved into first place thanks to the 1:0 victory against Hapoel Beer Sheva. The midfielder spoke about the refereeing, Eliran Atar’s goal and how the club went into the match versus Beer Sheva after a goalless draw the week before at Bnei Yehuda:
“I want to go back to the Bnei Yehuda match. We had enough chances to win that game but we had some bad luck. Bnei Yehuda is a team that is known to give the big sides problems. We came into this match knowing what we had to do with a lot emotions and with 100% effort and I’m happy that we did what we needed to to get the win.”
Open style of play:
“Every match against them is open but difficult as both sides are very good and we had to give it our all to win the game.
Looking ahead:
“We’re not happy that we aren’t in the Cup and we weren’t able to get past the last stage but now we are focusing on the league and our next match against Hapoel Acre. We have to go into that match the same way we came into this one. It will be a tough match.”
Importance of the fans:
“Beer Sheva has some excellent players and if we don’t come into the match with 120% effort then it will be very hard to defeat them. We prepared just as we do for every match. The fans were amazing and created a great atmosphere and we hope that it will continue that way.”
About Eliran Atar’s goal:
“Eliran is a great player and puts in so much during training, we all know what he can do.”
Helping each other out on the pitch:
“Melikson, Nwakaeme and Shahar are all terrific players and we know what they can do and we tried to close them down on that side because Micha is more of an offensive player and we had to help him. Everyone did their jobs and we took the game.”
In first place:
“If we begin to think like that then we will have a repeat of last season. We have to go into the Acre match focused like we did today and take the 3 points.”
Head Coach Jordi Cruyff’s belief in the squad:
“There’s no question that it gives everyone the feeling that he believes in everyone on the squad. I see everyone working hard and working together everyday at training and we want to do the best that we can.”
The refereeing:
“I’m not going to go into the refereeing as it’s not easy especially in a big game, but we all got together at halftime and said let’s put everything that happened aside and do what we need to in order to win the game and the answer was Eliran’s goal.”
