Stop the snowball: After three games without a loss, Maccabi Netanya managed to stop its deterioration in the table when it defeated Bnei Sakhnin 0: 1 in Doha. The result could have been much higher had it not been for the mistakes of referee Ohad Assulin and with a little more concentration on the part of the Diamond players’ link and attack. It was Netanya’s first away win of the season after four draws.
The start of the game did not bode well for Netanya, but as from the beginning of the season, also yesterday, it was Danny Amos who saved the team and stopped Pendel for the third time this season after a silly touch by Kwan Freiter. By the way, the striker did not let the case affect him and in a beautiful personal move, Lachan Ezra cooked the victory gate.
Raymond Atfeld, who received compliments for the preparation, praised the players for the close game, probably after two senior players Chen Ezra and Aviv Avraham were replaced in the first half due to injuries. Avraham, who wept bitterly will undergo an MRI and the initial medical evaluation spoke of a knee ligament injury although he expressed a little more optimism after recovering slightly. “It was a sharp pain,” Abraham told his friends. As you may recall, Netanya has already lost one player who finished the season due to a tear in the knee ligaments, striker Ron Ashkenazi and the club hope that the injury is easier.
Ezra, on the other hand, suffers from a wooden leg and a break forced on football will help him qualify for the next game. By the way, the contact he won did not understand how referee Ohad Assulin did not just whistle for him after a foul on the field. “It was one hundred percent penalty, again the judges against us,” a source in the group said. It should be noted that Assouline was jumped into the game at the last minute after a mistake by the Ministry of Health informing Eitan Shmuelevich, who was banned from leaving his home due to his proximity to a verified patient, which was not the case but the update on the mistake came late.
“The players who came in like Yuval Sadeh and Younes Melda did a great job and proved that there is someone to trust,” the club praised the two, but above all he was busy. “At his age, he’s just getting better, but surely Willie Rotensteiner is not interested,” the same sources said. In between, the actors were surprised that Chen Ezra started as captain and not Danny Amos and when he was replaced Omri Gandelman got the film and not the veteran goalkeeper. Amos, it turns out, wanted to give the young Gandelman responsibility, and the club praised him for that.
The closure will allow the injured to rest, but Atfeld knows he will need reinforcements to survive in the league as the squad shortens with the injuries. The coach has a green light to strengthen and when Dolev Azoulay and Yarin Sharabi, who were told to look for a team, will leave, money will also be freed up. The one who has provided his best game since arriving and received quite a few reviews until yesterday is Akinsola Akinimi, with Lamek Banda also impressing.