Another bitter draw for Hapoel Beer Sheva. In the premiere of coach Roni Levy on the lines and without a number of car players, the trophy holder finished last night (Sunday) only 1: 1 in Toto Turner against Betar Jerusalem, which complicates it in the battle for entry to the top playoffs. The point places the Reds in fifth place with 32 points , Only 4 points from Kiryat Shmona, their nearest rival already this coming Wednesday.
“We had a good game overall, but the ball just did not want to go in,” they said in Be’er Sheva. “We got into a lot of situations in the first half, we missed a penalty and two other good situations. We had to score at least one goal but lack of concentration caused those misses. There are good things. To take from this game, it’s time we learned to come out with 3 points because the top playoffs can escape our hands if we are not focused. ”
The club as a whole encouraged cheerleaders from Roni Levy’s debut on the lines, but felt a bitter taste following the large amount of situations that came in the first half and of course Joshua’s missed penalty. “Suckers, if we were concentrated near the goal, the game would have developed completely differently,” said one of the players. Coach Roni Levy complimented his players on the attitude and fighting, but he himself knows he has a lot of work to do. Levy was mostly satisfied with the first part of the game, but criticized the players for the lack of concentration and poor decision making of some of them.
The team complimented the pair of ties David Keltins and Marcelo Mali who continue their improvement graph. The right-back on duty, Hatem ‘Abd al-Hamid, also garnered compliments and it seems that the experience and confidence he has gained in recent years is going to be the anchor in the coming years. “Hatem is a great player, he will add a lot to us later and all this when he plays a different role each time,” the club said.
Sagiv Yehezkel, who actually missed a similar situation in the opening as in the cup against Maccabi Tel Aviv, scored his first goal and the professional team hopes that he will get confidence to help him near the goal. Another player they were happy with was Rotem Hatuel, who surprisingly did not start in the squad despite being trained in the concluding training, but knew how to come off the bench and be in the right place at the right time and his goal prevented a loss in Levy’s debut on the lines.
The situation of the injured in Be’er Sheva last night painted a difficult reality for Roni Levy and the professional team, and this was reflected in the meager bench available to them and in only two substitutions made by the coach. The team was not even able to put together a full squad of 20 players after Liran Cohen and Roi Azot from the youth team were called to complete a squad of 19 players, when offensively the options were Rotem Hatuel, Itamar Shabiru and the young Rotem Alligon. “Our bench says it all, the injuries we get over and over again do not give too many options,” a club source said.
Roni Levy will also have to break his head in the next game the next day against Hapoel Kiryat Shmona. Levy will try to get along without stopper Louis Taha who will miss the game because of a fifth yellow he received in the previous round. The problem, Marcelo Mali finished the game with muscle aches and if he is unable to play in the fourth, it will again lead to the squad with quite a few improvisations. If Mali can play, Alhamid is expected to return to the brake position next to Miguel Vitor, with David Keltins playing as a right-back and Eli Madmon playing in the link to the Argentine side.
Also, in Be’er Sheva, it is hoped that the extremist duo, Farley Rosa and Cynthia Sallich, who were supposed to be on the roster last night, will be able to be at Levy’s disposal on Wednesday. The team put a strain on the Brazilian and he complained after a few workouts about muscle strain, when he also admits that he put too much burden on himself. In any case, the training that will take place today will decide whether the two can be included in the squad and even take part in the game against the team from the north.
The one who was added to the injured team even before the game was Marwan Kabha. The relationship did not train over the weekend due to growing weakness, which turned out to be anemia. Now, one can link the weakness to the amount of recent injuries. Kabha has suffered in recent months from a significant number of relatively minor injuries that have delayed his recurrence each time, but it turns out that the lack of red blood cells has caused his physical decline. Kabha conducted a first examination at Soroka Hospital yesterday and today another examination will be done, with the club hoping that this is not a complex medical problem.
In another matter, Be’er Sheva are close to a settlement with the star of the team, Joshua, who returned to the pitch after the four-game suspension in question and has missed his first goal for Toto Turner since signing for the team. The dismissal caused the Portuguese to sit in the stands alongside Eli and Alona Barkat, who approached the player and sent him a message that next season the team will strive to run for all the titles, which is very appealing to the Portuguese. Vitor’s extension of the contract adds to the decision by Joshua to sign for one season, in the shadow of courtship by Yossi Aboksis and Barak Abramov. By the way, the player received his fifth yellow last night and he will be sent off again, this time against Hapoel Tel Aviv.
