I am not interested in the table now and I am not interested in Maccabi Haifa leading Maccabi Tel Aviv by 5 points. In this battle between the two teams, Maccabi Tel Aviv is better than Maccabi Haifa. point. end. Three exclamation marks !!! You can say everything and you can write everything, but with facts you can not argue. In the last 30 games, Maccabi Haifa has won only once. In the last 15 games, which is more relevant in recent years, Maccabi Haifa has not won once. It is impossible to argue with that. You can chat on social media, it is possible that the media people who are Maccabi Haifa fans will say everything and with all this, they are not able to see a single victory. one.
Because of these facts, Yaakov Shachar chose Barak Bachar to coach the team. He even admitted that Becher was brought to Maccabi Haifa to win the championship. Bachar is supposed to break the glass ceiling. How much more can you see that in every game Maccabi Tel Aviv comes out on top? In the first round, Maccabi Tel Aviv reached Sami Ofer, and even before we breathed a sigh of relief, Maccabi Haifa led 0: 2. That was not enough either. Finished barely 2: 2. Last night’s second round, Maccabi Haifa is much better than Maccabi Tel Aviv in the first half, leading 0: 1 for only two minutes and in the end also losing the game 2: 1.
What more did Maccabi Haifa need? It came less stressed than Maccabi Tel Aviv, with an 8 point advantage, Maccabi Tel Aviv came without 4 players in the first team, Haifa in a full team. And who are the players who could not play? Eitan Tibi, Dan Glazer, Dor Peretz and Yonatan Cohen – 4 most significant screws, which were the main ones in the great championship with coach Ivitch. I intentionally do not mention the striker Peshich, because in my opinion Schechter is no less good with him than he is. And despite these data, Maccabi Haifa is losing it again.
We should not take seriously the promises of coach Barak Bachar and player Dolev Haziza that all these data will change and Haifa will beat Maccabi Tel Aviv this season, because I have already written that you can say everything, Maccabi Tel Aviv wins only on the field and not through the microphones. That no one in Haifa will guarantee anything as long as it is Maccabi Tel Aviv. Maccabi Haifa’s fight is neither against Hadera nor against Sakhnin. , Do not fiddle and give respect.
Giora Spiegel, one of the greatest players and coaches in Israel, once told me after a season game between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv, “A great game is for great players.” Unfortunately, all those we talk about every day as great players did not come to the game. A little Abu Fani and a little San Menachem, where’s everyone else? Where’s Cherry? Where’s Roakvitsa? Why did they not come? Seeing Matan Hozaz running in his direction, Hozaz is very agile, light-footed with the ball, must not run to him, of course you are in the extension. Planich will stand, stand. You ran to him and made the team lose.
So if we were talking about great players who came to a great game, it was giving a buzz. In recent weeks he has heard that the Premier League desires him, so he informed the coach “I am here, I will stay here and I will play again”. Hozaz was not even sure he would start in the squad for this season’s game, but as with Ivica, he waited patiently for his chance and took big. Great cooking for Tal Ben Haim at the equalizer, Pendel in overtime, non-stop work on San Menachem. excellent. Score 8. Not everyone came to Maccabi Tel Aviv either. You could say that no one came in the first half, but I will still mention Sharan Yeni, Eyal Golsa and Tal Ben Haim. They were fine, after the star of the entire game, Matan Hozaz.
And Matan Hozaz had help and this one came from a completely unexpected place, and that is Barak Bachar’s decision to replace Taleb Twataha in San Menachem in the final minutes. In a situation of draw, which is not bad at all for Maccabi Haifa, Bachar decides to make this strange change. Twataha Kerr, Menachem Ham, do not make such a change in the last minutes, do not take out a defensive player in any way, unless he is injured. That was not the case. Hozaz shook Twataha, followed by Planic and won the game.
The decision to replace Abu Fani was also a mistake in my opinion, but it did not cause Maccabi Haifa to lose. Honestly, I also did not like the Van Leven exchanges. He replaced striker with striker, Shahar Phiben moved to the link, it did not seem to me that he wanted to win, but in the end luck and Matan Hozaz were with him. Overall, when Yonatan Cohen returns from injury, Glazer and Tibi return to fitness and Dor Peretz returns from the Yellows’ penalty, who can bet on Maccabi Haifa as a champion today? 19 games, 57 points is a lot. If until yesterday Maccabi Haifa was the admitted candidate for victory, after yesterday, and with all the factual data, Maccabi Tel Aviv in a big fight and justice Tal Ben Haim when he said “no one is a favorite against Maccabi Tel Aviv”.
In the 62nd minute, a noble Omar came in to play for Maccabi Haifa. A story in itself after the affair with the girls and the move to Cyprus. If he had said something about a year ago, while singing in Bloomfield “Maccabi Haifa Hezbollah”, that Noble would be a Maccabi Haifa player today, we would say he went crazy. But football sometimes leads us to places we never thought of. Already after 3 minutes, Golsa entered him, as if to tell him, “Calm down, we are Maccabi Tel Aviv, you will not do in Haifa what you did with us.” Golsa sent a message to the noble.
In general, so far Noble has not been good in two games. Of course he has the time to succeed. But if after bringing him to Maccabi Haifa, when many Maccabi Tel Aviv fans say “he weakened us and strengthened Maccabi Haifa”, and yet Maccabi Tel Aviv will win the title, there will be double meaning here. Already in my previous column I wrote that Yaakov Shachar’s decision to bring Noble is a knockout victory of Mitch Goldhaar over Shahar from a moral point of view. If the championship is also yellow, then I no longer have words to define Maccabi Tel Aviv’s big victory over Maccabi Haifa, in all respects.
The fight is open, any team can say it is dependent on itself and it is true, whoever wins by the end of the season, will win the championship. But according to the data, when Maccabi Haifa is unable to beat Maccabi Tel Aviv, the advantage is that of Maccabi Tel Aviv. In fact, next Monday Maccabi Tel Aviv has Yossi Aboksis on its head. Maybe Hapoel B’Shlosha will do the work for Barak Bachar? Leave, we’ll talk in May.
