Maccabi Tel Aviv’s central defender Carlos Garcia spoke to the assembled press following the WINNER League Matchday 15 clash against Hapoel Beer Sheva that ended in a 2:1 loss to the desert Reds. The Spaniard opened with remarks concerning who the better team was on the Bloomfield pitch:

“I can’t argue with what the Beer Sheva coach said but I have another opinion. Maybe we have to watch it again. They can be happy that they didn’t do very much to take the three points.”

The season is a marathon, not a sprint:

“My head is never down. I’m proud of my team and I’m proud of my fans. Like I’ve said before the celebrations will come in May and I’m sure that we can do a better job and make sure we are ahead of Beer Sheva at that time.”

Looking ahead:

“I can say that because of the way we played today we deserved more. But we lost and Beer Sheva is three points ahead of us. If we both make the playoffs then we will have two more games against each other. I hope that at the end of the season we can say, yes we lost these games but did the work that we needed to do in order to win the championship.”

Mistakes on the goals scored by Beer Sheva:

“The two goals that we gave up were our mistakes and many times in football this is what happens. We could have avoided it and after they scored they went and defended for 90 minutes. That’s one way to play football.”

About tomorrow:

“I was down for two seconds after the game but now we have to pick ourselves up and do the best training tomorrow that we can do.”