Hapoel Beer Sheva
Hapoel Beer Sheva will hold its concluding training session this morning ahead of tomorrow’s game (Monday, 20:30) against Maccabi Haifa. After that, the players will disperse and gather again in the evening to travel together to a hotel in Haifa where they will stay until the game tomorrow evening.
Coach Aliniv Barda is expected to make one change in the squad compared to the one he started against Maccabi Netanya in the previous round. Breda tends to come up with Danilo Aspria instead of Dor Micha to get from the Colombian the ability to press high and go out for quick passing attacks.
Breda is expected to thicken the center of the field with Mariano Barreiro, Andre Martinez, Tomer Yosefi and Ramzi Spori to achieve equality in the center of the field in front of the quality link of Maccabi Haifa. The new coach of Hapoel Beer Sheva wants to put pressure on Maccabi Haifa in its half of the field at certain minutes and he does not want his players to shut down and try to erupt.
I will be absent from the game with Schechter, who underwent surgery on Tuesday, Sagiv Yehezkel, who is recovering from surgery he underwent himself a few weeks ago, and the yellowed Gustavo Marmentini.
Estimated composition: Omri Glazer, Hatem ‘Abd al-Hamid, Miguel Vitor, Iyad Abu’ Abid, Helder Lopes, Mariano Barreiro, Andre Martinez, Ramzi Spori, Tomer Yosefi, Danilo Aspria, Nikita Rokavitsia.
Trivia
* The balance between the teams in the senior league in the 2000s is 8:29 for Maccabi Haifa in victories and another 12 draws. This season each won 1: 2 away.
* Two consecutive league victories in Haifa? Hapoel Beer Sheva has not done this since the early 1990s: 2: 3 in November 1991 after the Greens led 0: 2 and a subsequent season 0: 1 in February 1993 from a goal by Oren Sagron.
* Maccabi Haifa presents the best attack in the league (65 goals) and has won every league game since the 0-0 draw against Hapoel Hadera in the opening round. Hapoel Beer Sheva with the best defense in the league – 18 absorbs, one less than the champion who kept a clean sheet in five of the last seven rounds.
* Hapoel Beer Sheva with 100 percent success since Aliniv Barda stands on the lines (one win in the cup and three in the league) and has scored nine goals in the last three rounds.
* During his time as a player, Barda scored a double in his first game in the Maccabi Haifa uniform against Hapoel Beer Sheva. It happened in March 2003 and the Greens won 2: 4 in Kiryat Eliezer. In total, he had three goals in these meetings as a Maccabi Haifa player and one as a Beer Sheva player.
* By the way, Barda was already on the lines against Maccabi Haifa and lost 2: 1. In June 2020, he replaced Yossi Aboksis who was serving a suspension, and a temporary equalizer with 10 players of Ben Shehar was not enough for him. Nikita Rokavitsia then scored to the credit of the host and Cynthiahu Sallich won.
Saturday results:
Hapoel Jerusalem – Hapoel Nof Hagalil 0: 0
Maccabi Petah Tikva – Hapoel Haifa 0: 0
Maccabi Netanya – Maccabi Tel Aviv 1: 1
Hapoel Tel Aviv – Bnei Sakhnin 1: 2