The revolution led by Nir Klinger in Hapoel Tel Aviv • Cohen and noble numbers in Maccabi Tel Aviv and Sherry and Rokabice in Haifa • Raanana's unexpected collapse on the way to the back of the table • Danny Amos' fight for homophobia Super League
Jonathan Cohen. Wonderful numbers for the yellow tie
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Ami fat
Klinger thanks the audience for the work. A huge change
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Danny Maron
Amos. brave
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Bernie Erdov
Return from the underworld
Nir Klinger may not be selected as head coach this season, but he is no doubt one of the top candidates for the title. No matter what his team results in the top playoffs or how far it will go in the cup, Hapoel Tel Aviv's upheaval is no less than a miracle. His achievement with the Reds is no less than the titles he has won during his career.
And who thinks Klinger's achievement is purely because he took a team that was relegated and brought it to fifth place in the league - just don't understand which team it was. Before Klinger's verb was crumbly, split, which the players did not like, to say the least, the previous coach. No energies were there, but disciplinary punishments that we hadn't heard in almost a decade were. In short, everything - except for a football team.
Then, game after game, without much ability, they managed to recover and see the light at the end of the tunnel with the help of the red winners and determination. Along the way, the Reds were hit hard: a quartet from Netanya, a Maccabi Haifa quartet, a derby trio - defeats that other teams would not have faced, but not Klinger's.
He managed to lift his players off the boards time and time again and ended up doing the unbelievable with a very limited roster (say goodbye to Michael Olha). Of course, credit also to Moses Sinai, who managed four months and a half to do what no one before him did - reduce his The involvement of the owner, and above all - put quiet in the system.
sherry. Some incriminating numbers // Photo: Alan Shaver
The smashers
What does the season say about Maccabi Tel Aviv? She is not impressive, she has no true striker, her defensive coach, that if she wins this championship will be one of the least impressive championships that have been here in the last decade.
Everything is good and beautiful, and it may well be that some of these things are certainly true, but one key fact cannot be ignored: this team is simply breaking records. With beautiful football or without, Vladimir Ivich's team is doing things here that doubt it will change in the near future.
Get a taste: This is the second consecutive season that Maccabi finishes the regular season (26 cycles) without loss. The champion has absorbed a total of five games, and her goalkeeper, Daniel Tannenbaum, has set the seventh consecutive World Cup in unbeaten matches. Ibich's machine also bypassed the 1994/95 Maccabi Haifa record, with 31 unbeaten away games (along with last season), and the hand, or more legally, another leaning.
So you can argue about the quality of the yellows, but at the level of the results this is championing data. In the end, what will be remembered is the highs and the titles, not necessarily the one who introduced the attractive football. Just ask Bar Kochba's deputy.
Rokabice. Ace of confusion // Photo: Maor Alexassi
Perfect match
Producing a goal-scoring machine like Eran Zehavi is a difficult task on the impossible. How many players in the world do you know who score in quantities that the Israeli superstar scored in the Premier League a few years ago? That's right, lonely.
When Ze'evi left Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Kiryat Shalom, they thought to divide his gates between two and three players. The beginning was with Vidar Kiartenson and Tal Ben Haim, and today it continues with the pair Jonathan Cohen and Omar noble. The first is about 10 goals and 10 cooking, The second is about 8 goals and 8 cooking, and both seem to end the season with a double-digit balance in those categories.
Not only have these two become the best cards in the Evich pack, they provide the goals and the cooking in critical minutes, such as Cohen's victory in the season against Maccabi Haifa, or in the bad games of the champions, such as the duo of the noble versus Raanana. At least right now, no one seems to be able to stop them.
Covert 2.0
Maccabi Haifa closed a regular season that it has not remembered for almost a decade. There is a lot of responsibility for that, but in the end, football is draining the numbers, and this is the big time for Charon Cherry and Nikita Rokabice.
These two are signed to 39 of the 58 goals the Green scored this season (the best Premier League attack). Apart from Maccabi Tel Aviv and Betar Jerusalem, no league team has conceded 39 goals (Betar only with 42). Rokavice with 18 goals so far, a number that has not been in Carmel since Shlomi Arbitman tore networks in Kiryat Eliezer (28 goals in the 2009 season / 10) Next to that, the machine from Australia has cooked five more gates.
Cherry, on the other hand, has conquered 8 and cooked 8, but if he adds his key dedication to his mix, his contribution will undoubtedly be greater. Cherry is the most dominant stranger to play green ever since Vladimir DeValishvili (remember?) When it comes to output. To win the championship, Marco will have to confuse those two at their peak in the top playoffs, which will be launching this Saturday.
Raanana players. Next national season? // Photo: Ami Shuman
Fridays, 3 p.m.
If, at the beginning of the season, you were asked who the ultimate league dropout candidate is, Hapoel Raanana probably wasn't your first answer. After all, she has players like Or Desa, Eugene Anse, until January she also had Case Ganem, a seven-year tradition in the Premier League, and all the big teams testified that it was very difficult to beat the humble team from Sharon. So what went wrong?
Raanana lost and lost, the players' confidence was shattered, and even as the management tried to shock the system and replace Menachem Koretzky with Nisso Avitan (who was fired after just over two months), nothing worked anymore. The dynamics have become "losers dynamics," as the club testified. And, frankly, a team that faces head-to-head defeats in the face of its rivalry to the bottom, like those against Scacia Ness Ziona and Hapoel KP, is a team that seems to have come to terms with its relegation to the National League.
"Even if they brought Mourinho here, he would not have achieved better results," coach Gal Cohen said a few days ago. And Cohen is right. An extraordinary sporting miracle has to happen for his team to survive in the league, and Raanana will do well if they decide to plan next season already, to build a team that can return to the Premier League in one season. Otherwise, Fridays will become the weekly pastime of Asher Oak.
noble. Performs wonderfully precisely during moments of stress // Photo: Ami Shuman
Danny is busy with the man
Probably enough one brave player to lead a precedent. This player is Maccabi Netanya goalkeeper Danny Amos, who is carrying the fight against homophobia in Israeli football. No player came out openly against the phenomenon, perhaps for fear of being called "gay" in his team's games.
This is proof that the fight against the phenomenon is only in its infancy. But Advocate Nir Reshef, the soccer association's prosecutor, should not run on the lawn while the crowd is cursing. From now on the clubs to visit the tribunal.
This means that the teams will probably come to the Association's offices on a weekly basis, at least at the beginning of the fight. But as time goes on, things will surely change. Full erasure probably won't be seen nowadays, but the "Ali Muhammad Come Here" cries in the eastern part of Teddy sounded like the name of a fiction movie until about a year ago.
Along with going to war on homophobia, there are more and more manifestations of racism this season. These are individual fan cases that have resulted in penalties for their members to stand out and for other entire audiences. Here it might be worthwhile to punish the few rather than the sane majority.