Maor Rahmani 02/02/2021 20:00
Joshua (Radad Jabara)
Spit in our face
Instead of talking about Maccabi Tel Aviv’s chase after Maccabi Haifa, which was launched this week in the second season game, when the Yellows also managed to beat Hapoel Beer Sheva (0: 1), sponsored by Matan Hozaz, the surprising hero of Money-Time (also this season) and Tal Ben Haim who starts answering everyone On the question of whether he is going to be the same familiar and old and good cook again, and kept a reasonable distance from the Greens (five points) – last night at the end of the game at Toto Turner Stadium everyone was just talking about Joshua’s ugly spit in Avi Rikan’s face.
What is a player worth doing so much magic on the field, exciting, juggling, igniting the imagination with every touch, worth buying a ticket for him (if possible, and also a fine for violating the closure worth), a pleasure to watch, if in one moment he destroys everything and refuses to look On it even for a second? Beyond his formidable football, he always deserves a push, a punch, an elbow, a nude photo, a curse, rudeness and this time – spitting. Not just Bricken, but all of Israeli football, because what does that say about any of us, if it’s the league star and player everyone is waiting to see?
But, really, what’s the wonder? Regardless of the case or the player, owners in Israeli football dictate to the coaches what to do and who to put together, coaches wait for each other in the corner and stir behind the scenes, also contracts of players (and not only) are canceled here with a wave of “meet in arbitration” and wage withholding is also a thing Quite common here and there. So the Portuguese who plays like in the neighborhood, and it’s beautiful to the eye, also behaves like in the neighborhood, and it’s a little less beautiful.
Joshua may be good for rating and interest in the league, he is everything one looks for in football and his emotions, beyond the fact that professionally he leads BS, conquers, cooks and is amazing in his actions. And it’s not even a matter of burnout and injury to the Premier League brand, but he must be punished , With the utmost severity (even if he probably will not learn or calm down), to keep the brand. And, a little, for the honor in Israeli football. Make a spitting move, a spitting sound, “tap”, or whatever – it must happen. Had to go to VAR to check what happened there at that moment.
The question of character
And if already a problematic character, then Hapoel Tel Aviv. For the fourth time out of the last five games, it led and lost points, this time in a 1-1 draw scored by Kiryat Shmona in Bloomfield from its playwright Abdullah Khaliel, who also left it in the league with a late goal at the end of last season. And this time he was content with distributing points at the stadium in Jaffa.
It happened to the Reds also in the previous round against Betar Jerusalem, since then she has not won first (almost not at all), mostly lost and won twice in the middle. Precisely after winning for the third time this season, and thought she set out on a new path with the new acquisition players Betar – Nir Klinger’s team took another step back.
Because of the instinctive comeback after Ofek Bitton’s great advantage goal, because of the naivety that still holds it and also because of the rather strange exchanges, which almost went up in points in the capital and did their part in losing the double advantage against Hapoel Haifa.
On the other hand, Kobi Refuah’s team won a game ahead of, or after, the third time this season and even though it started the season better and weakened significantly – it always had character and it will not get complicated, even if it eventually finds itself in the lower playoffs. Which is worthy of the top of the table.
Revenge cycle
The 18th round of the Premier League is marked by revenge. Maccabi Netanya opened it with a smooth and strong 0: 3 over MS Ashdod, the one that defeated it (0: 4) in the first round and stopped its great momentum from the start of the season. During the game in the Diamond City, Yossi Aboksis announced his resignation from Hapoel B’Shlosha and returned to Alona Barkat for not appreciating him enough for his claim and for turning to other coaches behind him, also his claim, but it is important to note that she publicly denied the allegations. Barak Abramov also did This, when he replied to the owners of the club from the Negev capital in the same currency, about last year – then, last January, she was the one who took the coach to him in the middle of the season and “stuck” him.
The last to take revenge, and prove otherwise, were the Greens from the Carmel. Maccabi Haifa defeated Hapoel Kfar Saba and Elisha Levy 0: 3, the last coach who won the championship title with them a decade ago, which she dreams of so much, after the Greens from Sharon won 2: 3 in the first round and named Barak Bachar’s team a stick in the unstable wheels. Since then, Maccabi Haifa has been safely at the top of the table, trying and in the meantime also managing not to stumble in such games and of course it will continue to try and do so as part of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s pursuit of it.
The real battle
While the gap between the leader and the second in the table is maintained, the real battle that happens every week in the league is for the MVP title of Maccabi Haifa, and of the season so far, with Nikita Rokavica of course continuing to lead with 16 goals and one touch, but Dolev Haziza continues to prove every week that he is no less Hotter than him. While the Australian continues to score non-stop, in abnormal shape, he is first in the table of threats to the frame (37) and threats from an extension (48) – Haziza is responsible for 7 goals and 5 assists, and is no less significant to Maccabi Haifa, or at least not by such a large gap.
Haziza has the largest amount of key dedication in the league (21) and although Gabi Kanikovsky scored and cooked like him (6 and 6) and Yonatan Cohen precedes him with 9 and 5 of his own, Bachar’s outstanding midfielder has a pretzel over his head this season, as he gets better from game to game , And increases his dominance, in the team and in the league. If they continue to lead the list of candidates for the player of the season title, it means that the Greens’ season will progress exactly as they plan, and in any case the personal titles will be significantly dwarfed.
Manny sprinkler
Menachem Koretzky returned to the Premier League after more than a year and marched Hapoel Hadera to a 0: 2 victory in the premiere against Bnei Sakhnin, in his first bottom battle in office. Koretzky, who left Hapoel Raanana last year, went down to Leumit to coach Hapoel Rishon Lezion and took a break for health reasons, returned to the front of the stage and beyond solid health, he now hopes the decision he made this winter will be a little better with him, especially in January in recent years.
Koretzky’s “Black January” begins in 2015, when he was fired from Betar Jerusalem. Less than a month later, he was appointed coach of Hapoel Petah Tikva and relegated with it to the national league at the end of that season. In January 2016, he moved to Maccabi Netanya, after the club went into liquidation. And with her he also went down to the national team.In January 2017 he came to Hapoel Tel Aviv after the dissolution and also in Wolfson it ended with a decline.
Koretzky, who during his career many times the right man (Raanana, Ramat Hasharon and more) but was not always there at the right time, hopes this time to change his karma after being appointed to his current position in Hadera, in January 2021, but with hopes of breaking the Nahas because he actually signed in late January But began coaching on the lines in early February. After the opening against Sakhnin, which he called the “dream debut” – Manny will try not to get too wet this time. Not from the sprinkler, but in the cold winter that does not always brighten his face.
