Maccabi Haifa got by Maccabi Netanya 1-0 as Dia Saba’s 8th minute goal made all the difference in the matchup. 

Greens head coach Barak Bachar looked back at the win, “We didn’t look good and I suffered for that. It’s hard to be satisfied after a game like this, even though we started the game well, after the goal we disappeared, we didn’t manage to be aggressive and it wasn’t a good game for us. It was important to win, there’s a battle for third place but we didn’t win with good ability however, at least we achieved the goal.”

Yossi Abuksis Jerusalem sports director added, “A good game from us from the start to the end, but when you don’t give up goals you go down with nothing. We conceded a goal and then we took control of the pitch and pressed them, but we need to score and we didn’t do that. We lacked scoring the goal but it just would’t go in, many situations went as they should but there are days like that, the players did their maximum and gave it their all”