Raz Amir
Eran Zahavi and Maccabi Tel Aviv players at the end (Radad Jabara)
Maccabi Tel Aviv will return to training in the afternoon today (Monday) and tomorrow they will hold another morning training ahead of the Tel Aviv derby before going on the Yom Kippur fast and returning to training on Thursday evening. This will be the first gathering of the players after the 2:0 loss to Maccabi Haifa which left hard feelings Very much especially among the audience for the approach of the yellows to the game, who seemed to cancel before the opponent especially in the second half and in the end also conceded two goals in the final minutes.
Along with the crowd’s support for Enrique Saborit, the club defended Vladan Ivic after they felt that the criticism of him was excessive and harsh considering the state of the team that suffered the first loss of the season. “He had a game plan that didn’t work, that’s the reality. He wanted to ‘suffocate’ the game until the 65th minute with the help of the four midfielders and then bring in the more attacking players and decide. He wanted to win, but it went wrong, he too is allowed to make mistakes,” said the club the yellow
Along with the protection that Ivic received from officials at the club, we have to be honest and point out that the Serbian coach’s decision to play in a lineup that has nine players who are essentially defensive, is very unclear and conveys inexplicable fear. Even if this is not really the reality, from the outside it would seem that the coach is not trying to challenge the greens at all and let them feel superior at every stage of the game.
Even before the bad performance of a large number of players, the blame for the loss to Maccabi Haifa is primarily on Ivić. The Serbian coach is known as one who first thinks about defense and winning games through it, and still, there aren’t too many examples of such a closed and defensive line-up that he has put in place in the past and it is doubtful that he will try to play with such an approach again.
Ahead of the derby, the assumption is that Djorja Jovanovic and Oskar Gluch will return to the lineup at the expense of Eyal Golsa and Dan Glazer when Maccabi Tel Aviv will return to the formation with which it excelled in previous games this season. orderly and efficient from the left side, we need to start building them on the right side of the field as well. Gabi Kanikowski usually plays there in midfield, but the players next to him change non-stop due to fitness issues (Nir Bitton) and as a result of Ivić not finding the perfect match with the right-wing Wiggenback as which he has on the left with Gloch, Ofir Davidzadeh and Enrique Saborit.
