Maccabi Tel Aviv began the 2022/23 campaign with Toto Cup exit by the hands of Maccabi Netanya at the end of a penalty shoot-out at Bloomfield stadium. At the end of the match, Maccabi’s coach, Vladimir Ivic, summed up his team’s performance: “In the first half we didn’t play well as our opponents were better and deserved to score. We lost our confidence and had a problem in the build up as we didn’t read the game properly.
“In the second half we played better and could have scored 2 or 3 goals. When you reach a penalty shoot-out its 50:50 and now we have to prepare ourselves for the next game”.
When asked about the things that need correcting, Ivic added: “I said yesterday in the pre-match press conference that we need to find our identity. We are working on it. We need to have more confident and believe in ourselves. We must also bring some players in certain positions. We need to be ready for our next matches as we don’t have too much time as they are very soon”.
Ahead of Maccabi’s forthcoming Conference League match, Ivic said: “Like I said we need to work on our identity, and when we didn’t win any title last season, it effects the confidence. One can restore the confidence by winning games and playing good football. Now we are missing certain things but we will work hard to improve them”.
