Tal Ben Haim, the Yellow & Blue veteran central defender discussed the current situation the Club is going through after splitting the points with Hapoel Ashkelon on Matchday 12. Number 26 talked about the responsibility and getting out of the current situation:
“These aren’t the results we wanted but there’s no choice right now and we have a very important match coming on Thursday night in the Europa League. We’re not going to put our heads down and I hope that we will win it and start down a new path.”
Getting out of the situation:
“Unfortunately we haven’t been able to score and I don’t remember seeing a team that has gone through these types of situations for such a long period of time. I hope that on Thursday we will break out of this. It’s hard to put a finger on the exact problem, but I can say that our coach is doing the maximum every day at practice and we are all behind him. We haven’t been able to do our utmost as players, each one of us. We have to double our efforts and keep our heads up. Truthfully, we haven’t been good and we are working hard to improve. You won’t hear me say something about an individual player, we are all in this as a team. We have good enough players and a good enough coach to get out of this situation together and I hope we will see this on Thursday.”
Responsibility:
“You’re not seeing an apathetic team that just doesn’t care, it’s exactly the opposite. You are seeing players who care, who are running hard and you can see that in the stats. Everyone is running, trying hard and we are all battling. The coach can’t do much more when he’s playing the last 20 minutes of the match with Tal Ben Chaim, Dor Micha, Barak Itzhaki, Eden Ben Basat and Vidar Kjartansson. We played with five strikers. When we show our abilities and our luck will change a bit then you’ll see a totally different Maccabi Tel Aviv. The coach is doing the maximum and the responsibility lies on us, the players.”
