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So they said: Patience paid off to Betar | Israel today

2019-12-30T11:17:19.017Z


Israeli soccer


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If, at the beginning of the season, you were asking Betar Jerusalem fans what their team's biggest problem was, you would mostly get the following answers: lacking a quality striker and not enough players capable of scoring goals and cooking.

As a matter of fact, most professionals were also unable to figure out early in the season who would provide numbers on the roster built in the home and garden. Concerns intensified after the first three cycles, which included a loss to Hapoel Haifa, the Jerusalemites will be staying with them tonight, and they did not arrive.

Shlomi Azoulay has not scored more than nine goals in a season since 2015/16; Capricorn Kinda has never conquered more than four league goals; Gates are not the strong side of Levi Garcia; Freddie Plumin only played one season on a big team and it was unclear what he would provide; Ali Muhammad did not provide numbers in Netanya and Betar Tel Aviv / Ramla; Dan Einbinder is a back midfielder who, in a really good season, finds the net four times; The era of Vered and Michael Ohana is injured - in short, the trend is clear.

The thing is, these figures didn't really move Professional Yossi Benyun or Coach Ronnie Levy. The latter went with Azulay, Kinda and Garcia at all costs, and it paid off in a big way. "Yossi and Ronnie weren't worried for a moment about who would provide numbers," Betar says. "They see and understand football differently."

Levy and Benyon this summer. We did not let the reviews influence // Photo: Danny Maron

"We knew things would be balanced"

So what is the situation today? Notice the figures: Betar has the third best attack in the league. Kinda, who no one expected a great amount of goals, is already on six conquests in the good season of his career - perhaps on the way to moving to Europe at the end of the season. Azoulay, who has found the network 5 times, cooked twice and at this rate seems to end the season with a double-digit conquest.

True, Betar receives the most goals from Kinda and Azoulay - who are also good friends outside of the grassy area - but it also receives numbers from players it did not expect, such as Ali Muhammad. Nigerian plays in Israel from the 2015/16 season, but never scored In the senior league, and generally didn't cook too much. This year he is a Betar cook with three assists, has a Premier League title goal and even one more in the Cup.

Muhammad. Beitar Cooking King // Photo: Danny Maron

To Mohammed can be added Antoine Conte, who has made his career debut, as well as complementary player goals such as Shalom Edri, Tamir Adi and Shay Constantine. Adding that to Freddie Plumin's three goals - which is back in the last few games and if he continues to do so at 8-7 goals by the end of the season - and Garcia's two goals and two cooking - which brings a lot of important aspects to the game like speed, dribble and struggles, but needs to be improved Drastic decision-making and extension - understand that Betar's professional team probably knew this summer what it was doing.

"We knew that things were going to end," they say on the Betar issue. "Shlomi and Freddie started to wake up, Garcia is cooking, Mohammed scored first in the league, Conte scored a first goal in the career and it shows that they are always doing a good job here and that we can still improve."

Betar fans. Affordable patience // Photo: Ami Shuman

Most of Jerusalem in Sami Ofer?

At this point, 5,000 fans, including Betar's 2,300, were promised their place in Sammy Ofer tonight, missing the injured Antoine Conte and expected to continue with the lineup that opened with a victory over Raanana.

Haifa fears that the visiting team may have a majority in the stands and called on fans to come and support the players in what was defined as "a super important game in light of the fact that the team did not win from the start of the second round".

Coach Haim Silves is debating the lineup, and Gili Vermouth is set to open after failing to do so in the Haifa derby. In defense, the Reds have quite a few problems, since Ben and Flame are yellow and absent and a generation of injured chicken is not supposed to play. Liran Sardal is expected to function as a right-back defender, while Nicolas Golan will play as a third-grader alongside Nisso Kapiloto. "Capilotto and Sardal are also injured, and Gal Arel is recovering," coach Haim Silves said, "but without excuses. There are opportunities for others to prove themselves. The Haifa player is not dependent on one player or another."

Yav Nachmani participated in the preparation of the article

Source: israelhayom

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