Maor Rahmani 26/01/2021 13:01
Abu Fani and Gulsa. Evidence Stage (Omri Stein)
Everything is ready
Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa will meet for the second season, and this time it will probably happen without the star of the games between the two teams, Yonatan Cohen, without Dor Peretz and possibly also without Alexander Peshich, while Eitan Tibi and Dan Glazer may still be available for their team. And while the situation with the Yellows feels and looks less good, the Greens are happier and more confident than ever, getting Jose Rodriguez back and they also have the luxury of whether to share a noble Omar or allow him to start the game on the bench.
The two teams won triples on Saturday, when Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Maccabi Netanya 1: 3 and Maccabi Haifa defeated Bnei Sakhnin 0: 3 while playing “Corona” for them, one that they thought was not sporty to play. With Noble as a significant addition to the going staff And from the depths of the Greens, Barak Bachar’s team has an eight-point advantage over the champion of the last two years and in order to replace it in the league, after a decade of drought, it will have to signal this in front of it in the direct battle.
Patrick Van Leven will have to function with the staff at his disposal and hope that the substitutes will also do the job, and Maccabi Tel Aviv has enough players who do not get too many minutes this season and are dying to prove that their place at 11 and God forbid not allow the gap to grow to 11. The coach has positive headaches, and a little less, but it is doubtful if this is an advantage for Haifa that the yellow stars will not be able to play against. Itai Schechter, who made voices of departure, and the other players who were waiting for their chances, will have to prove that the yellow staff is really deep. Either way, everything is ready for the second season game, in Kiryat Shalom and Kfar Galim.
A night without a star
And with all due respect to the shortcomings of Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa (if at all), there is one team in Israel that when it lacks its star, it looks completely different, by a huge margin from how it looks together with it and that is Hapoel Beer Sheva of course, which without Joshua played no Good to say the least against Hapoel Hadera and still managed to beat it 0: 1 at the “renovated” Turner Stadium. The PSC complain that players on the team no longer take on the absence of the dominant Portuguese (maybe too much), and just depend on him. At the same time, they are already praying for the well-being of Miguel Vitor, whose every injury has caused a heartbeat in the Negev capital in recent years.
The very fact that they won it is already encouraging, despite Hadera’s not bad ability, and certainly in their comeback to Turner, who even without an audience makes his home effect. But mostly, this evening without Joshua proved once again how much BS must strengthen if she wants to stay at the top of the table, because with the ability as she presented it will be very difficult.
However, it should be noted that at the moment the transfer window does not allow foreigners to land in Israel, so it is not possible to release players before the situation becomes clear, and at the moment this window seems to move according to the actions of the big teams. While the Corona manages the window, it also influences and influences actual football, and in some ways may make a difference in the Premier League as well.
Lots of promises, little reference
In its victory in Netanya, Maccabi Tel Aviv absorbed after 554 minutes in the Premier League (and for the first time under Van Levon, including in the games that guided the team last summer), since the previous game against the Diamonds in Bloomfield, in the previous round. And it was again Kwan Freiter, who scored a wonderful goal against them.
While Raymond Atwald’s team promised at the start of the season, with, in total, three consecutive victories on the eve of the second forced break under the auspices of the Corona, they really do not maintain and since that sequence (achieved at the expense of poor Sakhnin who snatched seven, Hapoel Haifa and KPS), they count in total All two wins in 12 rounds and just fail to get into the pace of scoring points.
And Dolev Azoulay, who allowed the last yellow-and-blue team since that 2-2 draw, “starred” on Saturday, even though he was not on the Netanya staff at all. In the group, they are still waiting for him to vacate his place and find himself a new group so that at the expense of his salary, Atwald can strengthen with another brake. In order for Netanya to be able to mention the same team that came to Bloomfield without feelings of inferiority and was further disappointed by Yonatan Cohen’s equalizer, it needs urgent strengthening, both defensively and offensively.
Sprinkle the mist
In Betar Jerusalem, as in Betar Jerusalem, there is no shortage of moments. And it all happens at once. At least the victories are also starting to connect, with the team of Slobodan Drapic and Shai Barda, who somehow manage to disconnect their players from all the noise around the team and dispel the fog created by the club and its people on a daily basis, won twice in a row for the first time this season. The gaps against Bnei Sakhnin – they can suddenly find themselves, somehow, at the top of the table, after the start of their bad season.
And right now, when Jordan Shua enters the pace and wins twice in a row, and even Ali Muhammad rises on the scoreboard, the Corona beats the team from the capital and threatens to stop the enthusiasm of the Betar. Idan Vered is the main disadvantage of the team against Hapoel Tel Aviv Teddy, so it came out relatively Cheap (probably after Ward was documented traveling with Eliran Atar, Oren Bitton and Shua).
After the transfer of ownership of Sheikh Hamed bin Khalifa becomes more complicated, Betar reports sting attempts and many question marks hovering over the club in recent weeks, which are illuminated in a negative light – the capital only wants to continue to win, even without the money from the UAE, which was supposed to strengthen The team in January, and stop for a moment to concentrate only on football – without any scandal or festival.
Again in fashion
Elisha Levy returned to the Premier League in a storm and in the meantime has already defeated his last two exes, Maccabi Petah Tikva and Bnei Yehuda, who did not really give him the full credit. After doing so to the Malabes before the break, he also took advantage of Matthias Liovich’s rage (which flourished under him in the Hatikva neighborhood at the start of the season and has since disappeared, and only harmed his actual team), and the determined play of his trainees after the Serb removal, to win 1-3 at Bloomfield and win a sweet victory For him on the oranges.
After completing a double over the Axis, and in total he has already collected 7 points out of 9 possible (and so critical, even against direct rivals at the bottom), it can be said that a few years later, after the team trauma, he finally became relevant in the Premier League again. In the right place, as we remember it in its heyday in the previous decade. Isaac and Idan Shom really believe in him, unlike other coaches he appointed, they speak the same language of football.
Elisha is back in fashion. The veteran coach has proven that he is not really a thing of the past, as many people thought after failing in recent years. In KPS he will not change the term “cemetery for coaches” regarding the Israeli team, and who knows when and if we will see him coach a big team again. But right now, at this stage of his career – KPS is a perfect match for him.
Einbinder will arrange, and has already arranged
Hapoel Tel Aviv showcased its five new acquisition players against Hapoel Haifa last Saturday, and they too were not enough to get three precious points for the Reds, when after already leading 0: 2 a pair of penalties by Omri Altman, the guests equalized to 2: 2 and returned Carmel is satisfied.
Beyond the noticeable change especially in the first half, before the sharp general decline of all players and the trend that changed under the auspices of fatigue and substitutions, there is no doubt that Dan Einbinder, Lidor Cohen, Shlomi Azulai, Ben Bitton and Ofek Bitton will still contribute to Hapoel this season, and some next season (assuming the team survives in the league The super of course), but at the top of them one should mention mainly Einbinder.
The former Betar Jerusalem captain, who was released by her at the beginning of the current season and has not played football since, showed how much he missed and then described himself “from 1 to 10? 100 “. For Hapoel Tel Aviv, he arrived at exactly the right box, it seemed at Bloomfield, where he took over the center of the field and proved that the Reds have a new home on the field.
Einbinder will actually arrange the game for the Reds. While Omri Altman enjoys the fact that the offensive burden is no longer just on his shoulders, he can manage the game together with ex Betar, who on the one hand helps him in the center of the field and pushes forward and on the other allows him to move freely in the offensive part, and continue to be the main man in the red attack. With a lot of help up front, from the wings and back.
Lidor Cohen also showed sparks and Osher Davida continued to shine at times in the wing, Ben Bitton added a lot of aggression and determination to the Reds’ drowsy defense, which was left with the mistakes of Cianda Colo, who took care to correct, and Danny Gruper, who again cost dearly with serious mistakes. Once in a while. Hapoel Tel Aviv may be disappointed with the result, but for the first time this season, really but, satisfied with how they looked and for the first time this season they also have some reasons for optimism. At least.
Thanks to the young, and the reds
In the battle between the two surprising teams of the season, which did not surprise at all in terms of ability but mainly due to the expectations of them last summer, Maccabi Petah Tikva defeated MS Ashdod 1: 2, which was dominated by Guy Luzon’s youngsters, with a dramatic goal in extra time – sponsored by the Malabes policy And at the expense of Hapoel Tel Aviv.
While Liel Abda allowed and awarded the three points to Luzon, he proved he had already forgotten about the Dynamo Kiev saga and is all focused on the success of the Malabuses this season. In the summer, he will be promoted to a club no less respectable than the Ukrainians, who wanted to tie him to a draconian contract, and Petah Tikva did not agree to a deal. Before scoring the winning goal, Amit Meir, 20, who broke into the Hapoel Tel Aviv uniform last season and Wolfson gave it up for 250,000 Just a shekel, gave a huge depth ball to 17-year-old Daniel Golani, who found 19-year-old Abda great.
Even before they relished the satisfying goal, Armando Cooper, another one that the Reds from Tel Aviv gave up, scored a goal in his renewed debut in blue and took the lead. In general, he looked relaxed and was excellent against Ashdod, like a completely different player, after taking nothing out of the Khodorov complex. In half a season. In general, Petah Tikva should also thank Arik Janko, who arrived as a gift from Wolfson and looks simply excellent this season.
In general, Petah Tikva enjoyed the fact that the game against Ashdod was postponed from before the break until after, when the team mentality was not at its peak to say the least, after two consecutive losses and three games without a win. Ashdod, after two consecutive victories, would have been in a much better mood. It was a kind of season game between the surprising ones that have not been surprising for a long time, among them, she is the first who in the pace of accumulating points may have already made the difference between the bottom and top playoffs and probably provided the final stamp for qualifying for the first six of Israeli football.
