I can say with one hundred percent certainty – Maccabi Haifa does not know how to stand defensively when there is a penalty kick against them, especially from ranges of 35 meters and more. Josh Cohen is directly to blame for the goal because instead of receiving the ball in a simple way or pushing it to the corner, he dropped it to Tomer Hamed who scored from a meter. But that’s not the point. The greens, as a starting position for the long balls in the offense, stand very close to their goal (about 11 meters) and then when picking up the balls they go back right into the five square.
As a result, the danger is clear and immediate, this is what happened last season with Eitan Tibi’s headed goal. It should be noted that the team must go outside the 16, at least two meters, then return to the 11 and in this situation Tomer Hamed was not on the goal line and Josh Cohen could have saved the goal for sure. In Europe they have seen it and if Barak Bachar does not take this matter upon himself, he will snatch strongly from stationary situations in the houses of the Champions League.
But the miracle and the miracle – two stationary situations of Hapoel Beer Sheva in the second half, and suddenly and out of nowhere Maccabi Haifa stands 18 meters outside the goal line. I ask Barak Becher, what happened? Why is this night different from all the other nights? Did you finally understand that you should not bring the danger closer to you, but rather move it away? But if so – better late than never. After BS’s advantage, in the first quarter of an hour the greens were first of all shocked by the unfortunate goal they conceded and later because they did not respond to a smart king that Eliniv Barda made with Ramsey Spori.
Ramzi Spuri played more to the left, but constantly entered the middle and created a numerical advantage of four ties for Beer Sheva against three for Maccabi Haifa. When Maccabi Haifa realized this, they returned to the game and when they returned – their control was absolute. They moved the ball excellently, they reached half positions and they had a numerical advantage mainly on the left wing with Pierre Curnot and Dolev Haziza.
LB had no answer and Maccabi Haifa missed an excellent opportunity to take the lead already in the first half. It should be noted that Spori’s dismissal in the last minutes of the first half helped Maccabi Haifa in a big way. Spuri was the only one who could threaten the champion’s goal – if it is in corners, stationary situations, kicks from outside the box and creating key situations.
At the same time, with all that he is a great player, he is very eager and nervous on the field and the foul he committed on Daniel Sondgren is irresponsible. Therefore, Gil Lebanese should sponsor a player like Spore, with all his great talent and the fact that he has such a complete package, and work with him personally otherwise he will be sent off several more times this season. To play football in such a brutal way in an age where there is VAR is impossible. In the end, Hapoel Beer Sheva’s best player does more harm than good.
I wonder about Breda. You play against Maccabi Haifa and you don’t have a fast striker and no one-on-one player. With all due respect to Tomer Hamed, my long-time friend, he is not fast and only wants the ball for his leg and with all the power he has, he does not show himself the whole game. Although he scored a goal, anyone could have scored a goal from this situation.
Eliniv Barda, who beat Maccabi Haifa twice in two cup frames on penalties, failed miserably today in all his preparation for the game and in the lineup he started with. The substitutions were good, Eugene Ansa and Rotem Hatuel are players who could quietly start in the 11 and embarrass the Maccabi Haifa defense, but for some reason they were ruled out. Two losses to B.S. in Turner, and on the other hand, Maccabi Haifa proved that the level of qualifying for the group stage of the Champions League is a much higher level than the qualification for the group stage of the Conference League. Of course Barda has a lot of work to do, because right now Beer Sheva is a bottom team for everything.
Barak Becher, this great coach, shows great preparation and proper management of his entire squad at the start of the season with all the pressure on the team due to their fine European qualifying campaign and promotion to the home of the champions. The exchanges were on time and his courage to play with four strikers in the last ten minutes says Darshani – Barak Becher did not give up the game until the last second, that’s why he won.
I should mention Azili. The penalty is a penalty, even though the last time he missed against Omri Glazer. Although Atzili was not very good, he introduced a new parameter for himself – he is always waited for on the left and then he makes a sharp movement to the right. That’s how it led to Franzi Piero’s goal, Shafo Latzili.
Barak Becher can be satisfied for a simple reason – when Maccabi Haifa returned from the Conference League last season, it scored four points in the first three games of the league and this year it has nine points in three rounds. If I am Haifa’s representative in the discussion about the fight against Maccabi Tel Aviv, then the facts need to be clarified.
Maccabi Tel Aviv played at the start of the season against three teams – two candidates for relegation (Bnei Rayna and Hapoel Hadera) and one that should make the lower playoffs (Kiryat Shmona). Maccabi Haifa played against three teams – one challenging for the championship (Hapoel Beer Sheva), and two teams belonging to the top playoffs (Maccabi Netanya and Bnei Sakhnin). This is the great achievement of Maccabi Haifa and the reason why their start of the season is more impressive than Maccabi Tel Aviv’s.
