Peter Bosz’s Yellow-and-Blue defeated Maccabi Netanya away last night 3:1 at the Moshava Stadium and closed the gap with first place Beer Sheva to five points. Striker Eden Ben Basat opened the scoring for the defending champions by putting through his fourth goal of the year over all competitions.

Maccabi’s number 9 who struggled with some pain in the first half said to the Official Website: “I felt some pain in the first half but I didn’t want to come out early because of it. I’m happy that I scored and I’m even more excited because we won. We are now looking ahead and focussing on the Hapoel Haifa match.”

Looking at the point differential to first place:

“We are just preparing and getting ready for the next match and we are working on ourselves to make sure that we give the best possible effort. Our job is to go into every week and do what needs to be done to win the games and only after the match itself will we analyze the difference in points between first and second place.”

The battle with Beer Sheva:

“There is tension and pressure in every match and the fact that we are battling with Beer Sheva is good for the league and for the fans. I hope that the fight goes right down to the wire.”