One minute before the regular season ended and a week after the hefty win over Hapoel Hadera, Maccabi Haifa drew Ashdod to a match against a pressure-less team with a lot of talent in the front, who will move on Cruz Control until the end of the season and try to enjoy football and upgrade young under old coach Ren Ben Simon.

Haifa came to a game without a flamboyant firefight, which gave Marco confusion a window of opportunity to combine Jordan Shua and / or Mohamed Awad in the lineup without "forcing" the move on a team that wanted a good, but confusion surprisingly (or not) chose the solid and tactical synthiho. Choosing Selich at the expense of players who think outside the box and bring something different, in a low-defense game, seems somewhat puzzling, but continues a clear line of confusion from the season opener - a line that favors expected and banal over the different and surprising. In his defense, surprises are not always a good thing.

Haifa opened the two halves very well, and this is mainly the case for Yannick Wildshot, who exploited physical and technical superiority on the shield opposite him, Benzi Governor; And Charon Cherry, who found the pockets between the link to the defense and from there sent ingenious dedications to anyone moving toward the extension and added two more cooking scales to his balance.

Ashdod mainly introduced fast-moving Dean David (cooked) and Samuel Alabi (19, 1.66m), a connection that combines good defensive and offensive capabilities and could interest the top teams in the near future. For the last half hour, Haifa stopped playing, stepped back and only hoped that the game would end before Ashdod compared - hope that materialized.

The Greens continue to keep the champion from Tel Aviv a touch away, but in the second round of the playoffs they will reach Bloomfield for a game that will probably not be a way back. Haifa will have to bring something different, different, surprising, because in a solid game with no surprises and Tel Aviv's big imagination .

2 One of the most enjoyable teams in the last three years in the league is Maccabi Netanya. The current season also began with expectations in the sky, mainly due to the return of one of her best sons - Coral Cohen, after a wonderful career in Germany (109 appearances in the Bundesliga, 9 goals). But expectations this season, including his own, have hit him greatly, signaling Netanya's professional fall after successful years.

Cohen is a great complementary player, one who works for his teammates, not a player who builds a team around him, probably not at this point in his career. The dissonance between expectations and capabilities created a pit, into which Netanya fell along with her captain. As Netanya starts planning for next season, one of her key tasks will be to earn Cohen as a complementary player and bring another dominant character to his side. That way both sides will benefit, and Cohen's return will not be remembered just because of a historic negative four-point record this season.