Barak: We can make it tough forfo Hoops
NOBODYNOB in Israel is shoutingshou from the flat roof tops that Hapoel Be’erBe’e Sheva can pull off whatwha would be one of the mostmos memorable results in th the country’s football historyhisto against Celtic.
ButBu then you won’t find anyone completely rulingrulin out a comeback, all th the way from 5-2 down,dow by this relatively unheraldedunh club which wouldwou take them, and not their Scottish opponents, into the Champions LeagueLeag group stages.
AndA hope can be a strongstron motivational tool in th this game.
BarakBa Bakhar, the HapoelHap manager, is still quietlyquie confident his playersplay can cause Celtic somesom moments of terror in to tonight’s second leg.
“In“I football there are gamesgam when the impossibleimpo can happen,” said Bakhar. “We have to rememberrem these games. It’s a Champions League matchmatc and we have to produceprod a good performanceperf and not thinkthin about the result.
“It“I is a fact that it is 5-2, we will try to do our best because the score is very tough at the moment,mom but we will try to representre the club as well as possible.”
BakharBa was full of praiseprai for the way Celtic playedplay in the first game even if he did see flaws whichwhic his team could makemak the most of at the TurnerTurn Stadium.
“We“W expected a team with high quality,” said the manager.m “They were improvingimpr and developingdeve every week in EuropeEuro and in the league.
“We“W saw some good thingsthin from Celtic and a few less good things. But we a are looking at our team and do our better thingsthin even better.”
AndA as for the question aboutabou flags, one that did not g go down well during the pressp conference, BakharBak said: “I am a coach,coac not a politician.”