1. A new spirit, this is how one can describe what Hapoel Beer Sheva has been going through since Aliniv Barda was appointed the team’s coach. If anyone thought at the beginning of the month that Breda comes on a band-aid standard and does not take the job with one hundred percent commitment, he could understand that this is not the case just by looking at the coach in the last minutes of last night (Sunday) 0: 2 in Galilee and see how strong Breda is . The interim coach (or not) was very nervous, worried, consulted his assistant Maor Melikson many times and seemed to be constantly trying to find solutions on how to end the game with three points.
“Aliniv lived the game very well,” they said at the club, “he was a great player in Be’er Sheva, and also at the highest levels in Belgium. Alona is very pleased with him and no one will be surprised if Aliniv stays as coach.”
Breda himself, according to his entourage, has not yet decided whether he marks the role of coach as a vocation, but those in the club who are friends with the coach know that if before the appointment Breda thought he wanted only the professional manager, then the new position aroused passion in him. Who starred on the grass at Turner. “In the end Aliniv will be the one to decide, there is no doubt that at the moment he put a lot of spirit into us and also a lot of players who were off woke up again,” said a player on the team.
2. If anyone was looking for an exit from the box, Dor Micha’s move along with Ramzi Spori in the lineup was exactly this thing that surprised even the team players. Spori has been in poor form recently, but his duo last night got him back on track and Be’er Sheva expects him to star in the playoffs. “If we want to take a championship we need Ramsey at his peak,” stated one of his friends “when he is good and focused the whole team is happier.”
Spori himself hopes to continue with the same ability and in his environment even signaled to interim national team coach Marco Belbul, with the contact expecting a summons that is not yet clear if he will arrive. The defensive players also received compliments when Be’er Sheva is also very pleased with the revival of Hatem ‘Abd al-Hamid. The player started last night as a defender and was excellent, but in the 60th minute he committed an offense that required a second yellow card, Breda saw this and decided to replace him immediately. If until a month ago such an expense could still have led to quarrels and affair, Alhamid immediately realized the mistake he had made and was replaced when he received great compliments for his ability as a right-back.
Along with the great joy and the gap that shrank to just one point from Maccabi Haifa (on the eve of the Greens’ game against Betar Jerusalem), Be’er Sheva were also disappointed with Gustavo Marmentini’s yellow card that will cause him to miss the game against Maccabi Haifa in the second round of the playoffs. But Be’er Sheva believes that he, too, will enter the playoffs and become one of the most important players on the team.
On Tuesday, the league director will announce the order of the games in the top playoff, but if there are no changes compared to the original schedule, in the next round Hapoel Beer Sheva will host Maccabi Netanya and after the national team break it will host Maccabi Haifa.