In front of the owner’s representative Jack Angalidis, Maccabi Tel Aviv continued last night (Sunday) its tremendous period with a sixth consecutive victory in all the frames, this time with the help of a difficult 0:1 in Teddy against Beitar Jerusalem.
The players’ celebrations were supposed to be more subdued, but Bnei Rayna’s victory over Maccabi Haifa, the opening of the gap from the Greens at the top to 5 points, the descent to the ground after an amazing victory in Greece and the return of the point by the Supreme Court, led to pictures we haven’t seen in a long time. “We took a significant step towards returning the plate to Kiryat Shalom”, admitted the team but did not come out with more bombastic statements than that, “we all remember that we already led by a higher margin and kicked the bucket”.
Robbie Keane, who took the players down after the victory in Piraeus, managed the game very well. Cain was more restrained than the players at the end and made sure to make it clear that he would require them to return to the ground, probably for the second leg against Olympiakos. “We did nothing,” he said. Beyond the victory, the team was satisfied that players who needed the rest got it, including Enrik Savorit and Eran Zahavi who knew the day before that they would not start. In any case, both will return to the lineup in the match in Serbia against the Greeks.
In the meantime, Maccabi Tel Aviv has no intention of apologizing for returning the point and for them there was no doubt that this is what will happen in light of the new regulations. On another issue, cameras of the security personnel of Maccabi Tel Aviv who go to all of the team’s away games also recorded the serious incident in which fans of Beitar entered the grass at the end and threw poles at the team’s fans. Maccabi did not deny that the yellow fans reacted, but they will pass the chain of events to the police, which they claim did not start with them.
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