World Cup Qualifiers, Europe 20-21
Doron Ben Dor
Willi Rotensteiner and players of the Israeli national team in training (Radad Jabara)
The Israeli team will start tomorrow (Thursday) at 19:00 the World Cup qualifying campaign in a home game against the Danish team. The team will hold a concluding training session in Bloomfield and even earlier (18:45) there will be a press conference in the presence of Willy Rotensteiner and Captain Beavers Natcho (live on the website).
About 5,000 fans are expected to come to Bloomfield and support the team. Rotensteiner ran the apparent lineup, but during training he made changes and tried several players in different positions. Anyway the coach is actually locked on his 11 with no special surprises.
The team is aware that the rival is superior in every parameter but at the same time is convinced that there is something to sell when it comes to the offensive part: Nobody is talking about fourth place even though it is our position at the moment. “
“There are currently three good teams from us. Even when we played against Spain they said that anything could be but we are realistic. The team today is much more organized but we have no doubt that Denmark is a monstrous team and the balance of power is clear. “Today we have excellent players at the front, including Dor Peretz in the link, who is in excellent shape and who supports the attack,” said the team.
At the tactical meetings Rotensteiner warned of the stationary situations. For years, this has been one of the main problems of the team, which suffers from stationary situations time and time again. For this purpose, the center of defense will include three high brakes: Eitan Tibi, Hatem Abdelhamid and Nir Bitton.
Estimated composition: Ofir Marciano, Eli Desa, Eitan Tibi, Hatem Abdelhamid, Nir Bitton, San Menachem, Beavers Natcho, Dor Peretz, Manor Solomon, Eran Zehavi and Mons Dabour.
