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Haris Medunjanin, the Yellow-and-Blue’s new midfielder scored a goal and assisted on another in the first leg of the two-legged Israel State Cup quarterfinals matchup away against Hapoel Kfar Saba. The Bosnian spoke about his objectives going forward, battling for first place, returning to Maccabi and of course scoring:

בוס ומדוניאנין מסכמים את הניצחון על הפועל כפ”ס

“It takes time, I wasn’t happy with my game. I lost some easy balls and you have to remember that I didn’t play for a whole year so it takes time to get ready especially with the playoffs coming up. I’ll give my best and I hope I’ll win the title with Maccabi.”
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Scoring his first goal since returning to Maccabi:

“It was a relief to get it. I always want to help the team as well with some good passing. When I get to about 16 meters out I want to shoot and today the ball went in. I had a lot of chances today but some weren’t dangerous. I have to improve on that.”

Helping with the goal scoring:

“I don’t know how many goals I’ll score, but I’ll try my best and hope that I can score more goals and help Maccabi.”
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Battling for first place in league play:

“Beer Sheva is under pressure because they need to win every game. There are 14 games left and we will still play them a couple of times. The playoffs will be very difficult with good teams like Haifa and Beer Sheva, so we will see.”

Returning to Maccabi:

“I was in the situation where I hadn’t played a lot in Spain but you never know what happens and since the new coach (Peter Bosz) came in to Maccabi things changed and I hope that I can provide more good games. I needed to take some time to think if I would come back as it has been a very difficult situation. Things have changed for the good now.”

Changes in the league from then and now:

“There are a lot of good teams and a lot of good players here now. It used to be an easy game to play against Beer Sheva and now they are one of the leaders.”

Champions League football:

“Of course it’s everyone’s dream to play in the Champions League and I hope I can be there with Maccabi and that we can qualify, but firstly we have to win a lot of games.”