One of the salient features of a team that aspires to win the championship is a powerful link-up. In Maccabi Haifa these were Muhammad Abu Fani, Neta Lavie and Charon Sari / Jose Rodriguez who arranged a green championship after a decade, in Maccabi Tel Aviv Dan Glazer, Eyal Golsa and Dor Peretz led Vladimir Ivitch to a dominant championship and with one loss throughout the season and the center of the dynasty Of Hapoel Beer Sheva were held by John Ugo and Ovidio Hoban. This season, too, it seems that so far we are anticipating a close championship battle in which the Reds’ ability to challenge the machine built in Carmel will be challenged.
- 20:30, live on 5SPORT: Hapoel BS against Maccabi Haifa
It is said that Roni Levy’s football is not attractive enough for a team that wants to swing a plate, that Hapoel BS relies mainly on stationary situations (its serious strength) and an unusually tremendous season of Ramzi Spori, but the story of the Negev capital contender stars several heroes. And question marks.So just before the Reds get on the lawn at Turner to try to stop the green locomotive and return to the summit, women spotlight on their beating heart – the link – the ones who are supposed to lead it and the one who was supposed to.
What about Dor Micha?
For those who do not remember, just two and a half years ago, the almost 30-year-old midfielder took the stage at the end of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s championship game and received a small statuette symbolizing the fact that he is a Premier League player for the 2018/19 season. A lot has passed since then, including another championship and after a year of exile in Cyprus he returned to Israel to paint it he had never worn in his career. Micha arrived in Be’er Sheva without too many expectations and especially hope that he will be able to restore the ability he showed until before last season at Maccabi Tel Aviv, but in the meantime it seems that this is still not the case.
Here are the dry numbers: 23 appearances (not including the Toto Cup), 11 of them in the squad, two goals, two assists, 12 times coming off the bench, 11 times being substituted and zero games in which he completed 90 minutes. The fact that Hapoel B’Shlosha does not often hold the ball, unlike other senior teams, requires him to make more movement without the ball in order to get it in places where he knows how to put depth balls or levels into the field (ie more to the field and less on foot).
Sometimes it works as well as joining this video, which leads to Nikita Rokavica’s situation, but this is one example out of not many:
This season Micha distributes 50 dedications on average for 90 minutes, much less than he distributed in 2018/19 in which he won the player of the season title (68) and even much less than the following season, in which he experienced a decrease in ability (65). Other than that, the red tie puts in far fewer balls (4.8 for 90 minutes) as opposed to two years under Vladimir Ivitch (6.8 on 18/19 and 6.6 on 19/20), which may indicate that he is less critical of the current game Of BS and does not often do the right thing in the right place as in the past. As a result he has become a rotation player and this happens especially in the recent period when a main characteristic has changed in the red way: the lineup.
As part of the trend in England and Italy, Roni Levy decided to move regularly to a 5-3-2 formation and since then Micha has started in only two games – in the league and in the cup. Since moving to the new lineup, the Red No. 10 has tried to send fewer key passes on average for 90 minutes than at the start of the season (1.6 vs. 1.8), picked up fewer balls (1.86 vs. 2) and sent fewer passes – 46 vs. 53 before the change. And the main reason for the lack of minutes in this lineup is one player – hints of storytelling. Which brings us to the next topic.
How can Micha and Spori play together?
When number seven returned to him in red from a reasonable half-season loan at Ashdod MS, it is hard to believe that there is anyone who imagined that he would do so from the front door and become the main executor in Roni Levy’s band. He has nine goals and eight assists in all competitions, this is considered his fruitful season, and we are only in January. Spori is of course the free agent in the link, builds the attacks from a low position, makes a move to both wings and gets coverage from the other two ties. In fact: exactly what Micah himself is supposed to do.
And notice this: 68 minutes against Maccabi Tel Aviv, Micha replaces Spori; 61 minutes against Sakhnin, Micha replaces Spori; 72 minutes against Kiryat Shmona? You guessed it. Micha replaces Spori. That my story has already been replaced.In short, you got the idea.
368 minutes this season Micha and Spori shared the place on the lawn equal to only 33 percent of the total minutes of the number 10 in the red of the season. Despite this, only one player gave Micha more times – Mariano Briero – and one of his two assists this season went to Spori himself, facing Wroclaw with an excellent wide ball and movement plus a good red star extension (not Belgrade), shown in this picture:
And this cooking is actually symbolizing what a blanket and stories are supposed to do and do occasionally when they collaborate. When Dor Micha goes down or enters the center to get a ball from the defense, Spori rises to a high position and finds space between the defensive lines to open a delivery option. When Spori does this, Micah is supposed to be the one doing the same thing to get the ball in places where he can be dangerous.
In this video, we see a great example of this. Micha receives the ball about 35 meters diagonally from the goal, Spori makes a move to the field and it almost ends at the goal.
And in this video it also works the other way around. Spori sends an artist delivery to the field and only a good exit by Itamar Nitzan prevents Micha from putting the ball in the net.
So offensively it seems like not a bad idea at all, but it should be noted that the games in which the two’s team worked were mostly at the start of the season, so Moshe Hogg sat in the Teddy stand in the same game where the move came from the previous video and Micha played on the wing in a 4-2-3-1 formation. In the current lineup, Roni Levy usually places two physical ties of a more defensive nature, usually Briero and Petrucci, and one 10-player – Spori – given his insane fitness. Is that good? The results show yes, but against teams of a defensive nature More can a BS coach try and use both with one back contact that will cover them. Obviously in front of Maccabi Haifa, it has a link that knows how to punish every mistake and go out to attack quickly, it is problematic to do so.
Where does Andre Martinez fit in?
Hapoel BS has many options in the link, but its first signing in the winter window (and possibly also the only one) is that of another midfielder. The Portuguese plays as a 50-50 midfielder and also occasionally as a back midfielder and in the last season and a half Belgium has played Warsaw In an array of three brakes (3-4-3 style Thomas Tuchel or at times Mladen Krastic), it could very well be a good fit.
And why not add a video?
Martinez is a player endowed with good game vision, accurate long passes who usually gets the ball from the brakes in a low position and builds the attacks. Although not much to play this season and experiencing a decline in ability, Martinez is placed second with a 90-minute dedication to Belgium Warsaw with 61 such and it looks like he will be the one who can be the main ball carrier of Beer Sheva if and when he plays. Roni Levy, as is known for playing with three link players in a set of three brakes and assuming that the place of Briero (first place in the league in successful tackles with 75) and Spori is guaranteed, Martinez should complete the link squad in Petrucci’s place.
Another option is to shift Briero to the center of defense and play with the Portuguese as the back midfielder, but the fact that he is not the classic “ax” will make it difficult for him in front of good link-ups. And if we go too far, changing the lineup to 3-4-3 could allow a team of Spori and Micha in the front three and Briaro along with Martinez in the back. (Pictures to illustrate at the bottom of the article).
Apart from the link, Hapoel BS has quite a few tools that make it a successful team: the high pressure, the stationary situations, the experience of most of its players and the tough defense. Will that be enough to prevent Barak Bachar and Maccabi Haifa from lifting another plate?
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