Roy Revivo celebrated his return to Maccabi’s starting line-up with a goal and an assist which earned him the BOSS man of the match award. Shortly after, The 21-year-old full-back spoke to the media at the end of the match and said: “I am young, hungry, working hard and will always aim to reach the highest levels. I missed scoring goals a lot as it hadn’t happened in a while now”.
Revivo, who made his first league appearance this season and completed the 90 minutes, spoke about the competition for places in the squad: “There are plenty of good players in the team and a lot of rotation as we have loads of matches this season. But I am working hard and we will see.”
On the prospect of featuring in the right back position as well, Revivo said: “I can at right back but at the end of the day these are decisions of the coach. I personally think that Idan Nachmias has been doing an exceptional job at right-back. I don’t mind playing left or right and I said it in the past – I like the challenge and like to be challenged”.
On the match which saw Hapoel Jerusalem manage to equalize despite their numerical disadvantage, Revivo said: “Because they were down to 10 men, and dropped back, we wanted to score. But on the other hand the tempo of the game also dropped and dragged us down as well. We enjoyed most of the possession during the game so I tried to do my work both in defense and attack.”
On Maccabi’s squad this season, Revivo summed up: “We have an excellent squad of players and there will be rotations as we are set to play so many matches and prepared for that. Facing teams like Ajax is extremely challenging and we thrive on that. We would like to win as many matches in Europe but at the same time domestically – win the league and as many titles as possible”
