Yellow-and-Blue Head Coach Peter Bosz discussed his side’s 3:1 victory over Maccabi Petach Tikva with the help of an Eran Zahavi brace and a goal by Nigerian midfielder Nosa Igiebor. He spoke about Zahavi’s performance, not including Gili Vermouth in the squad and of course about his team’s performance.

“I’m happy with the result because everybody told me before the game that it would be difficult. It was a fantastic win. We gave up too many chance and they hit the bar, but overall we played a good game with a lot of chances ourselves. We should have score 2 or 3 more goals, but we played a good game.”

Maccabi Petach Tikva’s effort this evening:

“Maccabi Petach Tikva was a bit unlucky, but we I’ll analyze this game and see what we can do to play better defense going forward.”

On Gili Vermouth not being included in the squad:

“The decision is mine as I am the coach. I had conversation with him and he was a true professional and I explained that I wanted to see Eli Dasa who I didn’t have a chance to see play yet. He trained well and was fantastic this week. It’s all about the relationship I have with my players. He’s training hard.”

Eran Zahavi’s performance:

“He scored some amazing goals tonight. I think that he played very well also against Maccabi Haifa as well, but he was amazing tonight. The type of goals he scored were very special.”