(Abstract courtesy of Sports 1)
In the second team, and without a number of senior players who were absent due to injuries, Maccabi Tel Aviv did not need a high ability to return with 0: 3 part of Azerbaijan on the weak arena.
Coach Vladimir Ivitch can mark V for an important victory before the return match and be satisfied with a number of positive things that Maccabi worked on after the loss to Maccabi Netanya and expressed in the game yesterday.
Brandley Kubas stood out above them all. Kubas cooked the first goal and extracted the ball on the way to the second goal of Juvanovic who came to a great cooking of Eyal Golsa. The group was told that Kubas had decided to take matters into his own hands in the summer.
Already after the end of the season Kobas hired a personal trainer, went on only a short vacation and worked with a nutritionist. He maintained 8 hours of sleep a night and managed to lose 5 pounds and 3 percent fat.
“Brandley realized that he had one last chance to prove himself, because with Ivica the names or the winners do not play,” the team said. “He heard about looking for a replacement and realized he needed to give more.”
Kubas has improved his status and is expected to remain in Kiryat Shalom. If two strangers, a striker and an attacking player, arrive, then Stipa Hacking is likely to pay the price. In addition to Kubas himself, Yuris van Aubrey, Eyal Golsa, Gorja Juvanovic and Gabi Kanikovsky also showed good ability.
The club are not thrilled by the allegations that they won a weak team and returned from a trip to Azerbaijan, “You can underestimate and say we played against a team inferior to us and you can say we made them look bad” said a team source.
At noon, the team will land at Ben Gurion Airport and continue preparations for the rematch. Ivica and Barak Yitzhaki continue to work to land a foreign stopper in the coming days who can play in the games against Aris Thessaloniki, who will probably be a much tougher opponent for the Yellows and defeated Gay 1: 5 yesterday.
Dan Glazer will return to full training gradually as well as Shahar Phiben and Nir Bitton. Eran Zehavi will increase the pace in order to be fit for games against the Greeks. While with Bitton there is an expectation that he can at least play reciprocally, Zahavi is still in question.