Tal Ben Haim helped the Yellow-and-Blue to a 2:1 win against Maccabi Haifa on Matchday 18 of the WINNER League. The defender discussed the game along with revealing some of the differences in style new Head Coach Peter Bosz brings to Israel:
“I think we played an excellent match and if we would’ve scored a third goal the final result would have been bigger than it was. You have to give credit to Maccabi Haifa as they came back into the match on Yossi Benayoun’s nice goal. When the score was 2:1, the game could’ve gone either way, but we played well and really controlled the tempo of the match with a number of chances. Bottom line is that we took the 3-points and we will forge on.”
About the training sessions with new coach Peter Bosz:
“Every coach has his own path and way. Over the last few days he gave us some pointers on how to improve our game and I’m sure as the upcoming week goes by we will be able to manage the match even better and control the ball even more.”
Some of the changes in play:
“One of the things that coach wants us to do is go after the ball as soon as we give it up. He wants to have the ball on our feet and we had some good plays where we used our defense to help give us on offensive opportunity.”
On being in 2nd place:
“We’ve played a lot of matches this year and we have been behind in the table and still won the championship. We are not looking that far down the road right now and we are taking it game by game. We are now turning our sights on Thursday’s State Cup match against Ramat HaSharon.”
