Maccabi Tel Aviv left Doha Stadium in Sakhnin with a 0:0 draw after controlling the tempo of the match throughout the 90 minutes and producing many chances to score but unable to find the back of the goal.

The Head Coach, Peter Bosz spoke about the match and the physical confrontations that took place following the encounter between Maccabi and Sakhnin:

“There’s absolutely no connection between this and football. I didn’t really see what had happened because I had just turned around to put on my glasses and then I saw what was going on. This is very serious in my eyes. I don’t know what prompted it to begin or who started it but this has no connection to football whatsoever and you can’t have these types of things on the pitch.”

About the match:

“We came to play football and we saw a pretty good match. We had many opportunities but we couldn’t score. Sakhnin also had some chances near the end of the game but our keeper made the saves he needed to. All in all we played a good match.”

Sakhnin’s joy following the game:

“I predicted that it was going to be a tough match tonight. I told the players that if we come and fight we will lose. However, if we come to play football we will win the match. We played well and we pressured the other side. We controlled the flow of the match, but in football you must score if you want to win and we didn’t do that.”

The gap between Maccabi and the table leaders Beer Sheva:

“For me, nothing has changed. We have to win next week. If we do win the match then we will be in first place due to a better goal differential. We must win the remaining four matches to be champions.”

If he is concerned:

“I get con red when we don’t have opportunities. Today, we had plenty of chances. The players played well. I’m not concerned.”