We still haven’t had time to recover from the unforgettable World Cup final and Argentina’s victory, and the Premier League is already back on Monday, with games of Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv. So yes, it’s not Messi and Mbappe, but Eran Zahavi and Omar Atzili also scored, the two majors won, and in the ‘press stand’, Eyal Berkovic and Eli Ohana commented on what happened in the games.
Barco He said at the beginning of his words: “We have to say thank you to Maccabi Haifa, yesterday we experienced a special day in world football. Returning to the Premier League today is a nightmare. Thanks to the 30,000 spectators at Sami Ofer, it brings you back to business. Imagine if we had seen 2,000 spectators?”
“It was not a trip today for Maccabi Haifa, it was a very mediocre day. Sakhnin could have equalized with Melamed’s strike. All in all, this is an expected result. Sek was excellent today, Abu Fani is also excellent, on the scale of this league he is a great player. No Knows which other league he can reach.”
Barko also addressed the issue of the goalkeeper at Maccabi Haifa, who will be missing Josh Cohen: “What’s wrong with Mesfati until the end of the season? Is there someone better? They have no room for a foreigner, he’s a good goalkeeper.”
On the possibility that Barak Bakr will leave for Europe: “If he has a good offer, he should go. A good offer is a top team from a medium league.”
Ohana He added about the victory of the greens: “Maccabi Haifa is a favorite against every team on its home court. They returned to the league in a good way. Rocavica is not good this season, he misses too many times, Bachar insists on him because he does not have many options from the bench.”
Unlike Berko, Ohana is sure: “Haifa needs another top-level goalkeeper. Myshefi is good enough for the league, but they will need a goalkeeper to fill the gap,” and advised Bacher: “Why did he exhaust himself? As long as there is no good offer, he must stay at Maccabi Haifa.”
Later, Berkovic commented on Maccabi Tel Aviv’s victory over Bnei Rayna: “Daniel Peretz saved several situations. Why play with three defenders? It drives me crazy. Ivitch has Saborit and Kandil. If he lacks players to bring, you are Maccabi Tel Aviv, no A team that has no money. It bothers me that he is fixed. He has three brakes that keep zero strikers. Explain to me why? Where is Parfa? Why when a leading coach plays defensive every time?”
On the lukewarm ability of Dor Peretz and Yonatan Cohen: “A player who hasn’t played soccer for a year takes time. Yonatan is a complementary player, obviously. He is not the star of Maccabi Tel Aviv. Maccabi must first of all have defenders. If Ivitch doesn’t trust them, let him bring defenders.”
Ohana added: “Eran Zahavi is coming back to himself. It’s still not the same Zahavi we know, but he’s coming back to himself. I don’t see too much fixation with Maccabi Tel Aviv, they attack with six-seven players every attack. Yonatan Cohen is not a left defender, but I’m not Ivic. He gets a lot of money to decide. They fought to get him, he arrived and didn’t get many minutes.”
