2024-02-05 06:49:37
We saw two halves in the Jerusalem derby. One half in which Beitar Jerusalem dominated throughout and could have scored two more goals, in which Hapoel Jerusalem was very weak, unable to connect even two passes. The one who was particularly good in the first half was the talented Adi Yona. It should also be remembered that Ziv Aryeh played without the five team players he was missing – Osvaldo Capita, Yala Doin, Or Roizman, Max Grechkin and Oka Ashta.
In the second half, the formations were reversed and there was only one team on the field – Hapoel Jerusalem. Beitar just defended and here we saw the panic of Gal Cohen, who made panic substitutions, took out Yona and Fred Friday, put in defenders and sent panic to the players. This is not the first game where we have seen Beitar play well and disappear in the second half. I would say it’s because of poor physical fitness, you see the players can’t stand on their feet for 90 minutes.
When you take offensive players out and replace them with defensive players, the message you send to your players psychologically is to play defense, to keep the score. I would always tell my coaches, when you take out a striker, put a striker in his place. This is not the first game in which you see such big differences between Beitar of the first half and Beitar of the second half.
Gal Cohen (Oren Ben Hakon)
It is natural for there to be a 20 percent drop, but it cannot be that the capacity drops in the second half by 80 percent. With the correct tactical changes made by Aryeh, who brought fresh players into the game, see the differences between him and Cohen. See how a coach’s experience is so important and this is what Aryeh also did against Hapoel Tel Aviv, who also made a school there for another inexperienced coach (Borecha Lama) with his substitutions.
Cohen should continue coaching Beitar. Beitar doesn’t have a trophy, it has no chance of reaching Europe, so what it has left is a top playoff that actually doesn’t bring any title. Barak Abramov will do his financial calculation and will not bring a coach because it is an unnecessary financial expense to bring in a coach with more experience today.
As for Oral Dagni, he has a contract and I don’t know if they have a better player than him. I understood that Degani has a high contract and apparently Abramov thinks that it is too high an amount for him, especially when he does not reach any achievements this season, so he prefers to minimize expenses. Not that the other brakes are that good, the other brakes are not at a higher level than Dagani, in my opinion it’s more of an economic issue than a professional one. Miguel Silva had a very weak game. The second goal is his fault, but overall he is a good goalkeeper and mistakes happen to good goalkeepers too.
Beitar Jerusalem players are disappointed (Oren Ben Hakon)
What Aria does in Hapoel Jerusalem is to extract water from the rock. I think this coach will go far. With the acting material he has he does an excellent job. I don’t think another coach would have been as successful as he is with the player material and the budget he has at Hapoel Jerusalem. Lior Casa was recently released and in the derby they played without five of the team’s players. This only explains how much Betar is in serious trouble. I think Aryeh will coach more senior teams in the future, I also know him as someone who was an assistant coach for me in Beitar, with Ran Ben Shimon. He is a working man, a guy who understands a lot about football, but the media doesn’t appreciate him enough in my opinion.
I have not seen any player in Hapoel Jerusalem that I am enthusiastic about. On the other hand, Beitar Jerusalem has a number of talented players such as Yona, Yordan Shua and Friday, but they fail to come into their own, maybe except for Yona. It is sad to see that such a big team as Beitar reached such a situation that in the middle of the season they lost all their goals this season. It is not a team to compete for relegation, there are much worse teams than it, but this is a big disappointment. With such a large crowd, who come to cheer the team and go home very disappointed, it’s sad to see that.
Finally, at the press conference, Abramov said that I left him a deficit of NIS 26 million. So to clarify for everyone to understand, maybe Abramov drank something and was unconscious, or maybe he tried to discredit my name. I don’t know what he was thinking. I’m just mentioning – I didn’t sell the team to Abramov, he only bought it a year ago. I sold the team six years ago to Moshe Hogge, so how can he say that I left a deficit of NIS 26 million if I didn’t sell him the team at all? If he doesn’t retract it I will sue him for libel.
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