Maccabi Tel Aviv will go up tomorrow (Wednesday, 20:45 live on 5 SPORT) for a game for an entire season. The champion, 8 points away from Maccabi Haifa at the top and a victory at Bloomfield, will send a message to the Greens and return them to the championship battle. The problem: The Yellows will probably have to do without their biggest star, the injured Yonatan Cohen, who leads the team in almost every offensive parameter and likes to score especially against Maccabi Haifa.
Cohen has actually scored against the Greens in each of the last three seasons. It started with 1: 1 in Sami Ofer in the playoffs of the 2019 season, continued with a double on the buzzer in the famous 3: 4 last season at the stadium in Haifa and this season he found the net with 2: 2 in the first round.
In addition, Cohen was the king of goals and assists for Maccabi Tel Aviv last season and leads in the conquest category this season with nine. For comparison, in second place is Alexander Peshich with four.
Also in the goal threat category, Cohen is at the top with 46 threats in 16 games. He is a partner in all league rounds so far and has been a significant screw for both Yorgos Donis and Patrick Van Leven.
Cohen also added five touchdowns and is in second place in the group after Dan Bitton, who cooked six. He is also a deputy to Bitton in the key dedication – Jonathan delivered 20 such compared to 25 of the contact who came from Ludogorets. So tomorrow it happens, the two empires of Israeli football will meet for the biggest battle, but the champion is expected to appear without its main executor. Will Van Leven find a suitable replacement?
