This patent of two games a week, usually one at home, one outside, is one of the great illusions and disruptors of consciousness I am familiar with.
Three days ago, people came out of Ofer's drugs grabbing their heads after a quintet against Austria, and tonight (Tuesday), in a park in Copenhagen, we tried with all our might to keep Israel's head above water, so that it would not drown.
It did not work at all.
All the good things that go into Israeli football, usually against Austria - crash for us every time we meet Denmark.
Each team has its own good fairy, and its own black sheep - and this week we met both in that order.
Ophir Marciano hovers in front of the Danes // Reuters,
I was in Copenhagen 22 years ago, that damn early morning, when we were knocked on the hotel door with the exposure of the "preparation" that the Israeli players made on the eve of their decisive game in the crossover.
Since Denmark, which was already a rank or two above us, has jumped 2 more leagues, and is today in the best shape in Europe, in my opinion one of the three best teams on the continent, and the last Euro will testify.
Israel, as usual, is a caprice.
Along with beautiful things and clear progress in the link and the offensive part - the defensive game is at the lowest levels, not on the continent, but in the world in general.
In the San Marino, Madagascar and Bissau islands.
I have no interest in diminishing to Israel for what it did in the first half hour and saying that the Danes started slowly - Israel just played well, organized, and with a lot of confidence - and was worth even the mighty 0-1 of Zehavi who was disqualified for a small difference, but spent the last quarter of an hour Out the demons and brought us back to the familiar water cisterns of backwardness in guarding your safe.
The Danish team is celebrating at the expense of Israel.
Just not forces // Reuters,
It is not at all interesting to mention these actors by name, and enumerate their failures.
Brakes, who I have a hard time understanding how they get a place on their team, get their place on the team so easily.
We all already know the face and names, but as Rotensteiner should be praised for improving the offensive game - the Austrian should be condemned for his laxity, conservatism and foresight from the disastrous team at the back.
Denmark does not need big names.
It has an elite team at the team level that has butterflyed the Israeli defense with a high degree of embarrassment.
It was not by chance that the same coach arrived at Dan Caesarea's training ground, Richard Nielsen, the coach who brought the Danes to the victory in Euro '92, and tied our brakes with our hands with straps.
He was the first to recognize what we insist on not seeing.
Nielsen died and there was no one to take his legacy forward with us.
With a defensive legacy at the level of insult, we will not be helped by Zahavi, Solomon, Noble or Motel Spiegler.
Zahavi will continue to count expatriates, but will not see a major tournament.
In January of this year, Mariano Briero, their great brake, became a citizen of Be'er Sheva.
How can it be that no one on the team thought and thought about him?
San Menachem releases air in front of the Danes, tonight // AP,
Our team is something in the middle between the euphoria of Austria, and the destruction of the night in the park.
As long as she continues to be like that - unpredictable, out of her control, unstable, one that we never know what we will get from her - we will continue to play, I think.
