I am convinced and I have no doubt at all that many Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are watching the champions, Maccabi Haifa, today, and see its superiority in the league. He would have continued at Maccabi Tel Aviv, “we were the champions.”
Professionally this is true, but a large football club is far beyond the capacity of the senior team, it has many more components and the excellent decision of the owner, Mitch Goldhaar, is a step that changes the face of Israeli football. Thanks to the nobles of Maccabi Haifa, it is the best team in Israel, but thanks to Goldhar, Maccabi Tel Aviv is the biggest club in Israel. You can argue, you can disagree, for me it is a fact and not an opinion.
Yesterday (Sunday) the 3 biggest teams in Israel played. One, the best, won easily in the Galilee landscape and rose to first place (at least until tonight, when Hapoel BS will play) and in my opinion will win the championship this season as well – it has no worthy competitors at the moment of course. , As well as a coach. And the third, Betar Jerusalem, which just wants to survive financially and professionally.
Last night’s game with Teddy was good, rhythmic and interesting throughout. Although the vice-champion players are very calm financially, compared to the players from the capital, we did not see any differences on the field. Was a balanced game in which any result could be obtained. The big difference this time was in Maccabi Tel Aviv, where compared to the last game against Nof Hagalil, you could pay attention to the players’ wishes. In defense, we saw the same mistakes, but compared to the previous game, Whatever happens, “yesterday against Betar, they gave much more and wanted much more (in both senses).
In football most goals are scored due to mistakes, yesterday Betar made two big ones and it cost them a loss, there was not too much ability in Barak Yitzhaki’s attack except for the excellent Brandley Kubas, and that was enough because of a big mistake by Ofir Krief, who except this mistake was very good and gave a lot For the team. The second mistake was Itamar Nitzan’s bad exit for a high ball, which created the equation – two mistakes, two goals that decided the game. At the end of the match, Yitzhaki said: We will have news soon. “
The first time I hear the interim coach comment on “News Soon”, after almost a month and a half in no interview he did not say it. Second, it has to be said, his balance on the lines is great – 11 points out of 15 is a balance of champions, three away wins and two draws at home, not sure another coach would have made such a balance in the league.
True, Maccabi Tel Aviv messed up big against Austrian Linz in a loss at Bloomfield and lost first place at home in the Confession League, but I personally have no quarter claim to the interim coach himself even if he lost 5 league games out of 5, just because he had never coached before. To coach Maccabi Tel Aviv is not to “get a chance” as Izzy Shirtzky does, for example in KS, or to get Betar Tel Aviv / Bat Yam.
Maccabi Tel Aviv has a duty to succeed, there is no such thing as shuffling, and that is where Yitzhaki arrived without coaching one day. If Vladimir Ivitch, Peter Boss or Paulo Sousa had been different, he would not be there. And Jack Angelidis did not believe they would come to it.It is a club that has engraved on its banner only senior coaches from Europe, and now there is Yitzhaki on the lines, even if it is for a limited time.
The issue of the coach is a point problem, it is true that it is a “waste”, but it is impossible to take from this club the professionalism and professionalism of all its wings and people. At the moment, the team is 8 points away from Maccabi Haifa, that’s a lot, but it can be erased – there have always been things. Although Maccabi Tel Aviv has a good staff and there will be more changes in the upcoming transfer window, it still all depends on the reigning champion.
It should be taken into account, for example, that the two teams will still lose points and there will be 3 games between the two. Although I do not remember when Maccabi Haifa defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv, but I still think that is not the case this season, the Greens are much better than the other 13 teams in the league, which in no way can be said about the opponent in the yellow.
I have no doubt that the players of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Barak Yitzhaki and the management are of the winning type who never raise their hands, but this time it is different. A team that received goals from the entire league except Hapoel Jerusalem The defense and especially the position of the brakes. It conceded too many goals from the middle of the extension, right next to the two brakes and it also happened yesterday against Betar Jerusalem.
Compared to Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa, which have the troubles of the rich, the Jerusalemites have run into the troubles of the poor. As it seems at the moment, if a very affluent person does not suddenly arrive to acquire the team, it is not clear how it will end the season without debts to the club staff and players. Even if a number of players are sold this coming January to try and finish the season without debts, this situation can not continue without an owner who is complicated overhead, while there is no answer as to where the team is going from here.
Three big clubs, three different wishes, surely we know that the two seniors from Haifa and Tel Aviv will survive and continue the fight between them in the coming years, compared to Betar Jerusalem, I just hope it survives in all respects for the benefit of its many (only good) fans throughout the country and the color it provides To our football.
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