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Maccabi Haifa made two interesting decisions ahead of the start of the season.
The first, to end the contract with its top scorer, Nikita Rokavica and replace him with two completely different strikers in style from each other, Ben Shehar and Dean David.
And the second, to bring in Ali Muhammad and thicken its strongest squad from the championship season, the link squad.
So after the start of the season in which Bachar suffered injuries and did not find the right lineups, the hierarchy seems to have been found.
Muhammad looks wonderful and his combination with Charon Sheri and Muhammad Abu Fani returns the power to the link of Maccabi Haifa.
Thanks to Muhammad, the team's injury from the injury of its most important player last season, Neta Lavie, is almost imperceptible and his cooking for Haziza's goal yesterday showed it in a great way - excellent pressure position, kidnapping half of the opponent and a tremendous depth ball for the scorer who canceled out the defense.
Dolev Haziza, Photo: Oded Karni
The striker's position was due to Haifa's Achilles so far, that Bachar could not find the player to replace Rokavica, but now it seems that the hierarchy has been found.
David is Bachar's first choice for position number 9 and he is the one who is really best suited at the moment to complete Haziza and especially Omar Atzili, the number one player in the Premier League since the start of the season.
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On October 26, during the night, Maccabi Tel Aviv decided to dismiss the Patrick van Leeuwen. The writing was on the wall and move not really surprise anyone in the world of football. Since the past 37 days and the group, which until recently was considered that the most professionally managed in the country, this Who brought the good news of professional management, there is still no permanent coach and it is no less amazing. Last season Barak Abramov waited 36 days until he appointed Yossi Aboksis as coach, suffered criticism and at the end of the season this managerial spin led to the relegation of Bnei Yehuda.
Barak Yitzhaki, Photo: Maor Elkelsi
So the draw against Hapoel Nof Galil will not lower Maccabi Tel Aviv League, but the team fades from game to game and yesterday's display in Bloomfield was another negative record, it loses the trust of the crowd and is not relevant to the championship fight. It is not clear what happens with Mitch Goldhaar and who makes the decisions , But as in any sport, bad coaching hurts the club and bad management empties it of content.
Right now, as the Yellows look, they are uninterested, especially in the league, and that is the thing that should worry the team members the most.
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Hapoel B'Shlosha continues to lead the table, Kashroni Levy and his trainees set a club record and after 11 rounds the team is undefeated. From time), but she proves time and time again that she has winning players who know how to win, even in games they do not beat the opponent.
One of these players is Itai Schechter, who for the second time this season squeezes a crucial penalty as he comes off the bench and brings his team three points.
When the use of the screen judging system began, many thought that Schechter, who had gained the image of the diver, would be harmed and would not be able to overcome the system.
So think and make a mistake.
Itai Schechter, Photo: Danny Maron
Schechter developed a variant that bypasses VAR and managed during, that if I was gentle I would define it as a borderline, to take advantage of an irresponsible glide of trauma, to produce a fall that caused Legal Fried to whistle for a penalty at a critical minute. Then and only then do they intervene.
On the other hand, in football there is a lot of gray space, a lot of events are not unequivocal and the referees are not connected to a percentage machine.
In such a borderline case, at a critical moment, that there are thousands of question marks around the fall (certainly if one takes into account the reputation of the fallen), it would have been appropriate for Liani to call Fried to look at the case again and get all the tools to decide the right one.
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