Barak Bachar and Guy Sarfati had days together back in the early 2000s. In the 2005/6 season, the two collaborated as players in the Kiryat Shmona team in the national league and remained in close contact. These days are the culmination of the relationship between the two. Exactly the days when a coach needs advice from his assistant. Bachar is very worried about the game of the season and the big question is which style to choose.
In recent years, mainly due to the difficulty of getting good strikers, coaches are compromising on wingers, which has led to some successful defaults. Elton Acultasa, Tony Wakma, Alon Turgeman, Monas Dabour, Liel Abda and Sagiv Yehezkel are examples of side strikers who add more value to the attacking game than natural Spitz strikers. But the big success is due in part to the coaches who have built successful link-ups.
Since Raymonds Jutautas, Walid Badir and Nenad Pralia in the championship seasons of Maccabi Haifa with Abram Grant, through the days of Oren Zeituni, Dimitri Ulyanov and Goran Milenko, there have been no link squads like Gal Alberman, Maharan Rady and Zehavi in Maccabi Tel Aviv of Oscar Garcia and John Ugo, Ovidio Hoban and Maharan Radi at Barak in B.S.
Then came Cherry
On November 2, Jose Rodriguez started for the first time in the green team against … Maccabi Tel Aviv. These were Muhammad Abu Fani’s first 90 minutes of the season. Together with Neta Lavie, a new link trio was formed that was practiced at the training camp in Serbia at the end of October, ahead of that season’s game (2: 2). Charon Sherry took his place in the front three, Haifa became more aggressive without this central trio scoring even one goal (Rodriguez + Abu Fani + Neta Lavie = 0 league goals).
Haifa scored 40 goals in 20 games in all competitions, 31 of them (77.5%) scored by Cherry, Nikita and Haziza. Bachar and a Frenchman thought they must increase the conquerors’ arsenal, and to that end Noble Omar was brought in, as well as with the aim of upgrading the link trio with another conqueror, Sherry or Haziza. Despite this, and surprisingly, the game against the weak Sakhnin did not go smoothly and ahead of the powerful Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bachar is torn between the two versions.
Will go for talent or for balance?
Many critics among the community of youth department coaches have criticized the coaching ability of the professional director of the youth department. The main argument was that this was a difficult person. A hard coach is a demanding coach. Difficult means a lot of knowledge and a desire to instill it. I am a big believer in the Dutch of Maccabi Tel Aviv. He left a youth department with an advanced physiology division and an organized template, so that the almighty CEO Guy Zuckerman can continue to lead it. At the same time, I was sorry that Van Leven brought with him a new Dutch team and did not choose to bring with him a team from his youth department.
As he created players, he was supposed to produce coaches and be the one preparing an Israeli team for the future. Regarding the physiological issue, pay attention to the following amazing data: Maccabi Tel Aviv finishes excellently and scored 20 of its 28 goals in the second half, over half of the goals (15) in the last third of the games. In 27 games in the league and in Europe, Maccabi Tel Aviv scored 41 goals . More than half of them, 22, in the last half hour. Bachar must take this figure into account. Haifa must score in the first part of the game. If so, then launch an offensive, contrary to plan. A huge dilemma.
In the face of the failures of Maccabi Haifa’s back ties (as mentioned, 0 goals), the Yellows Blue, Golsa, Eden Kurtzav and Dor Peretz scored four goals together. In the absence of Peretz, the Dutchman will look for the third flank to the center of the field. Will it be when Bachar and the Frenchman return to the “difficult” trio that Van Leven will go for talent and team up with Dan Bitton or balance with Dan Glazer. The debate in Gush Dan whether to go for Dan or Dan …
The difference is not only in the characters, but in the starting position. With Dan Bitton, this is a triangle adapted to Haifa. With Glazer as the back, Kurtzb will be forced to rise one step up and together with Golsa create a balance of two front ties on a single back of Haifa. The best balance can be of crunching in the back, gulsa and emptying above it. The last two have a similar body structure and tremendous dynamism in the most exposed area of Haifa.
If Cherry plays on the right line, Van Leven will be able to raise a three-brake option. Maccabi Tel Aviv does not have a brake with a left foot. The weak point will become an advantage. Tibi, Hernandez, Yeni and Piven are right-handed. Easy.
If the possibility arises to brake with the left foot, Seborit will be the brake on the left and Van Leven will be able to do a Paulo Sousa act and place Tal Ben Haim as a left-wing wing defender. A 5-3-2 formation, with Schechter in the middle right and Pasich in the middle left will create a 2X2 balance between the two Maccabi Tel Aviv strikers and Planich Ward. The two green brakes are “rear brakes” at the base, ones that move the ball and are less striking to touch. To create the great advantage of Maccabi Tel Aviv. Two Spitz pioneers in the center will be the Dutchman’s winning card.
Maccabi Tel Aviv is a classic center-left team. Yonatan Cohen, Dan Bitton, Blackman, Guerrero, Hozaz and Rikan are not only left-handed, but also those who like to make the movements to the left. Sun Menachem and Taleb Twataha are two great left-backs, but in this game everything will be decided on the other side, behind Ofri Arad’s back.
