Vladimir Ivic, the Maccabi Tel Aviv Head Coach looked back at his squad’s 2:1 win over Bnei Yehuda at the Netanya Stadium and began by talking about the change of mentality from the first half to the second:
“The players changed their mentality at the beginning of the second half and played better than the first half. But there were a lot of places where they still had to improve. We won the game but I am not satisfied as to how we won. Our opponent created a lot of chances in the second half and we had a lot of problems whereas they didn’t create any chances in the first half. We have to play them three more times this season.”
Going undefeated in the regular season and looking ahead:
“The players fought from the first game until the last game of the regular season. But now we have 30 points in front of us and we have to be ready for the mini league. We must look at every game and prepare game by game including this coming Saturday against Hadera.”
Easy to win?
“Every game isn’t easy. We have to concentrate, prepare ourselves and analyze today’s mistakes and give our best to win the game on Saturday.”
