With a lot of faith and a game plan that makes an impression that has already been determined, the Israeli team is ready to open the 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign to be held in Qatar. The team and team players are waiting for the results of the corona tests that took place yesterday (Tuesday) towards midnight, when the delegation doctor reported that no one was causing any symptoms and everyone was feeling well.
Unlike the previous campaign, two days before the first meeting of the campaign against Denmark – Willy Rotensteiner is not undecided about the team he will open. Although he alternated between practicing Dor Peretz and Neta Lavi alongside Beavers Natcho and Manor Solomon in the link trio, the Austrian coach, it seems, prefers the Maccabi Tel Aviv midfielder and the prominent candidate for the regular season player in the 11th.
Rotensteiner conveyed to his team a message that in this campaign even senior players will not play 90 minutes in all the close games. This means that players like Eitan Tibi, Moanes Dabour and Beavers Natcho will also come off the bench in case of need for games against Scotland or Moldova. “I learned from mistakes,” the coach told his team.
After talking about the need for faith and togetherness, the national coach moved on to talk tactically. He reviewed the list of players of the opposing team and mainly talked about the lineup of Denmark. “They play 4: 3: 3, but they will also move to 4: 4: 2,” said Rotensteiner, who made it clear that our team will not only play with three brakes – but also with two back ties, when in the first game Natcho will join the defensive effort.
“Not just the Danish team in 12th place in the rankings, they have excellent players in the best teams in Europe – but in football anything is possible, it can be surprising,” said the Austrian coach, who is building on the team’s star, Eran Zehavi, whom he even took for a personal conversation. Encourage even if during the game things go less well.
The team did not like the requirement of Bloomfield Stadium staff not to train on the pitches, but only from 16 to 16, in order to maintain the quality of the grass. As of this morning, 400 tickets remain for sale. 30 percent of the tickets were handed out as part of invitations to the medical staffs who assisted in Corona. Some of those teams have not signed up so it may be possible to sell more tickets to the general public.
The referee will be the English referee, Craig Pawson, who only three days ago managed the cup game in which Leicester defeated Manchester United. Prior to that, Pawson refereed Liverpool’s win over Wolves in the league and had a total of 16 Premier League games this season. This is the first time he has refereed Israel’s game, having served as the fourth referee in the 2016 game in Northern Macedonia, which the Israeli team won 1-2 From the gates of Tomer Hemed and Tal Ben-Haim in the era of Elisha Levy.
Estimated composition: Ophir Marciano; Eli Desa, Eitan Tibi, Nir Bitton, Hatem ‘Abd al-Hamid, San Menachem; Beavers Natcho, Dor Peretz, Manor Solomon; Eran Zehavi, Moanes Dabour.
