Last season's visit to YA was the turning point that lifted Maccabi Haifa from the Red Line to the Deputies and ticket to Europe • Tomorrow is again at YA - and hopes to start a championship run

• Maccabi Haifa players. Do the unbelievable?

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  Alan Shaver

Maccabi Haifa will leave tomorrow for an away game against MS Ashdod. On paper, no reason to party. But for Marco confusion this is a significant milestone in his second term in the club.

Almost a year and two months ago, the first YA Stadium to which confusion came as the Greens coach in the Premier League.

Confusion reached the team with only 16 points and in a poor mental state. But confusion, as he usually did, sat with club president Jacob Shachar a few days before, even before the appointment, and the two talked about the top playoffs. Confusion was believed, Dawn too, and the owners even agreed to pay a generous grant - NIS 100,000 if the unbelievable (it seems then) happens. The card Haifa obtained for Europe also automatically extended the coach's contract. Confusion won a small 0: 1 on the way to second bases and another season in the Premier League.

It is said that one year in the life of a dog is equivalent to seven years of a person. Probably it is the same with football. One year and two months ago, when Haifa played in Ashdod, the gap from Maccabi Tel Aviv stood at exactly 20 points. 20 out of 42 possible. Gaps from heaven and earth. Today Maccabi Haifa is in a completely different place - in the midst of a championship fight against Maccabi Tel Aviv. In the 24th cycle last year, the gap from the yellows was 22 points, or in other words: erasable. Today: only six points, or in other words: absolutely erasable.

confusion. Lifting the team off the boards // Photo: Alan Shaver

"The table is not of interest to me at the moment," confusion said at the press conference tomorrow, but this table is the solid evidence of the coach's transformation in Carmel in a relatively short period of time.

But this season ticket to Europe will not guarantee contract confusion for another season. Besides the fact that Haifa has more than 72 percent success, the coach has not yet received the stamp on his contract renewal. Within the club's management, there are those who think confusion is wrong with the management of the roster, and first and foremost are the decisions regarding Jordan Shoa's striker. At least according to the practices so far - which could change until the opening whistle - Shuka may receive the lineup tomorrow against Ashdod, for the first time in five months.

In that match against Ashdod, confusion from the end of the rotation drew the brake from Ophri Arad, then another anonymous player, and striker Sean Weissman, who no one imagined he would be the Austrian league scorer. Except for confusion.

A shoal is supposed to open in place of Dolev Hizza (removed from yellow card accumulation). In fact, Shu'a was also part of the change in Haifa's confusion. Shachar fell in love with him even earlier, and the coach's recommendation put NIS 6 million in Bnei Yehuda's bank account. Shuva is one of the few players in recent years that made Yankela stand out of the chair with raised hands and a smile of victory, but that happened last season. The season at the club is not happy with the behavior around the striker, and certainly not from the headlines that the dealings around him produce.

Confusion was often asked to "get out of the fix," and the practice in concluding training proved that Shuah was in the middle behind Nikita Rokabice. In that case, the Dutch Cherry Charon will play on the wing.

Haifa is aware of the fact that if tomorrow's game in Ashdod (yes, again it is) will be a professional turning point, and also in confusion / shuffle relations, this green season may also soar to heights that will make Dawn stand with his hands raised. This time it can happen with a championship win, which will, for sure, confuse Carmel another season.