Maor Rahmani 31/01/2021 07:54
Knikowski. Starring in Netanya (Shahar Gross)
Maccabi Netanya is starting to embark on a new path, after its less than good period, when it combined last night (Saturday) with a second consecutive victory in the Premier League with 0: 3 over MS Ashdod, despite the game load and the rotation which was further shortened due to minor injuries. The grass in the stadium in Netanya), and with a lot of war and football that Raymond Atwald prayed to see from his trainees for a long time.
In terms of diamonds this was closing a circle. The defeat suffered by the team in the first round at the 11th Stadium (4: 0) actually stopped it then after three consecutive victories and gave the signal for the negative streak until last week – with two victories in 12 games – and now, in Netanya hope to continue the second round completely differently. In order to qualify for the top playoffs at the end.
After the game, in Netanya they celebrated in the locker room as they did not celebrate for a long time, when a lot of pressure was released, and the revenge was complete. The players sang and danced, Karem Jaber pissed more than anyone and celebrated a Premier League debut, the evening star Gabi Kanikovsky shouted, released and celebrated like they had never seen him before (and mostly received paragons from everyone), Israel Zeviti the fitness coach got a cold shower from the players, Kavan Freiter documented And CEO Niv Goldstein also allowed himself to be praised with the roar of “Come on Netanya” during Atwald’s interview at the end of the game.
The Dutchman, who immediately after the game managed to free up memories with his former friends from the Roda team of 94/95 in Zoom, also managed to cheer for his trainees on Instagram earlier: “We fought like lions, you deserve the credit.” This, after releasing a sigh of relief in light of the happy victory for him, probably in light of the fact that he rotated and raised a particularly young team, with their kosher Keller opening in place of Zlatan Shachovich, Elon Yerushalmi in place of Chen Ezra and Jaber in place of Ido Weir.
By the way, Ezra did not pass the aptitude test and was therefore removed from the squad, a reminder of a knee injury he received in the game against Hapoel Kfar Saba, while Hovic was scheduled to sit on the bench but reported a hamstring strain and eventually sat in the stands as well. At the end of the game, after scoring the third goal, the young ivory Fernand Guri, the youth team striker, also suffered a strain. As for the three of them, Netanya estimated that these were not serious injuries and that they would be able to return to the squad towards the end of the week, in the cup game or in the league round – according to the expected closure extension.
“This is sweet revenge, one of our worst games this season was in Ashdod away,” Atwald said at the end of the game. “We scored the goals at the right times, I think we could have scored the third before the half, but maybe it’s asking too much. By and large, it was a good performance in terms of tactical discipline and we should continue like this.”
Afterwards, in Netanya, they complimented Kanikovsky on his great evening. “The Prince”, as he is called in the city of diamonds, simply starred with a big duo and even bigger cooking for Jaber, and was the architect of the victory over Ashdod, after being sent off in the 11th stadium in that game and remembering the defeat perhaps most of all.
“Wow, it’s always fun to win a double, in every game it’s the ambition, but more importantly we won,” Knikowski said. “It gives us back a little confidence and the happy football of Maccabi Netanya, the good atmosphere and that’s the most important thing.” Beyond the team victory, it was a solo performance that is not seen every round in the Premier League, to say the least, and talk of selling it in the summer, when Eintracht Frankfurt were already interested in him, turned to Netanya as revealed in ONE and is not the only one, came up again.
“This year Gabi is proving that he is ready to go to Europe, so he is facing one of the big leagues,” we told Netanya to Kanikovsky, whose value is only rising and rising, when he sees 6/6 with the same amount of goals and assists in the Premier League, and the league is still long. “He’s aiming the highest in this transition and his price is already in line with those levels. This season he can achieve that because he’s upgraded his game in a lot of ways and also makes numbers.”
Even before the summer, in the current transfer window, Maccabi Netanya wants to get even stronger. Abubakar Dumbia landed in Israel early in the morning and will sign after undergoing medical tests. Domvia, which was supposed to arrive in Israel last week had it not been for the fact that Ben-Gurion Airport would not have closed, arrived in Israel together with Ness Ziona in basketball, which finished second at home in the “bubble” in Poland in the EuroCup. The ivory flew to Finland to Poland and there joined Ness Ziona, en route to the private jet and to Israel. The connection between Netanya and Ness Ziona was established through Raviv Lemond, a native of Netanya who is friends with the club’s members, and through him the issue was closed through Yaniv Mizrahi, the group’s chairman, who helped bring in Dumbia.
In Netanya, they plan to add a foreign brake in place of a released Akinsola Akinimi, but the one who may change the plans is actually Captain Almog Cohen, who received compliments for appearing in the center of defense, for the second time in a row.
“We have Almog Cohen on defense, even though he is not a natural brake, he understands the game. He is calm, it is an advantage that we have experience near young people. Young Killian, Keller and Jaber are young. We need leadership and stop the attacks that come and that is what he is. Does, “Atwald said after the game, when ONE learned that the Dutch coach is even considering retraining for Cohen, making him a brake alongside Van der Cap in light of the good cooperation between them and the experience he brings with him, and so lacking, to the back squad.
In such a situation, Maccabi Netanya will change its plans and try to attach a foreign back contact instead of Cohen. If she continues her attempts to attach a left-hand foreign brake on foot, more candidates will be considered, with one of those brakes offered being Hugh Moha, a 21-year-old brake, captain of the Sol team in his homeland and also in the Ivory Coast youth teams, ONE has learned.
Whether an ivory colony will open in Netanya or not, and whether it will succeed in strengthening another foreigner in the end, when it is still unclear whether the transfer window will be extended in favor of it, and when – Guri could serve as Netanya’s sixth foreigner until the end of the season. Lou with the final whistle last night, though the original goal is to add another player to the senior and bring the 19-year-old striker back to the youth team.
