Hapoel Beer Sheva will continue today (Thursday) in preparation for the game on Saturday in which it will try to return to the winning track when it hosts Hapoel Kiryat Shmona, which only defeated Maccabi Haifa in the last round. She will have to do so without the yellowed Miguel Vitor, Mariano Briero and Iyad Abu Abid. Roni Levy will meet his mythological assistant Slobodan Drapic, with the expectation of BS being at least 10,000 spectators in the stands at Turner. “We saw what KS did to Maccabi Haifa,” the team said.
This morning it was decided that Gustavo Marmentini would not train until further notice. The player has previously suffered from heart problems and needs to undergo a crucial examination, including a cardiological confirmation that he is allowed to play. In Be’er Sheva, they have seen a number of heartbreaking incidents in the past and do not take risks. As you may recall, Ceswa Ansufawa died on the pitch as a result of a heart problem and in 2017 Alinib Barda had a heart attack when a ball bounced off his chest during training. Luckily, the group’s masseur, Dmitry Trashchenko, performed CPR on him until an intensive care unit evacuated him to Soroka Hospital.
After those incidents, the procedures were sharpened and every player who came to the team was required to do comprehensive cardiological tests, something that was not done in too many football clubs in the country.
Many fans promised to come to tonight’s practice and support the players. Roni Levy is still undecided about the lineup, but it seems that the coach will make at least four substitutions, most of them forced. David Keltins will open at the expense of the yellowed Mariano Briero, while Or Dadia, Sagiv Yehezkel and Ramzi Spori will return to the lineup. Helder Lopes feels better after feeling tenderness in the muscle yesterday.
At the pre-match meeting against KS, Levy asked the back players to join the attack. He asked the front players for more personal actions, to go in depth and continue the pressure game back to the defense. “They get a red card at an early minute like we got falling apart, but your cohesion allowed us to return to the game even when things went wrong for us.”
