The king of last season's goals scored a double (7, 26), gave a successful debut in the league to Barak Bachar but was injured and replaced • Oda (35) only shrank

• Rokavica celebrates with Ashkenazi

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  Alan Shiver

In the computer games of yesteryear sometimes the game was to gain time, not necessarily to win. In the end you get stuck in the wall and have nowhere to run, but time is an important component. This was the case for Barak Bachar and Maccabi Haifa before the first league game against Hapoel Hadera. The Greens wanted 3 points, but mostly the time to go to the national team break with two weeks to strengthen the staff.

This is the risk that Barak Bachar took, fortunately for him. If Bachar had looked at the statistics, he would have discovered that Sharon Mimar, his former assistant, did not defeat him in the ten meetings between them. This time, too, it ended in the teacher's victory.

Bachar, tonight. Successful debut in the league // Photo: Alan Schieber 

Nikita Rokavica in the plaza is like putting the money on a stock of a pharmaceutical company the day it announced it had a vaccine for Corona. Twice in 26 minutes the Australian was in front of goal, two goals. Unfortunately, Rokavica injured his knee and was substituted, another problem that Carmel will have to deal with during the break.

Oda's shrinking gate was not enough. In the second half, the humidity killed the game and Maccabi Haifa sweated for the first victory, which is worth the most important thing for them: quiet.

Flakushchenko, tonight. For the first time in front of the ex // Photo: Alan Schieber