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Lighted on a small fire: The critical period of Maccabi Tel Aviv and Goldhaar begins
With a schedule that makes the pursuit of Maccabi Haifa even more difficult and purchase plans still pending, Maccabi Tel Aviv knows that the coming weeks will dictate the pace for the boss in Canada. Disabling the mine against Maccabi Petah Tikva (20:45, Sport 5) could signal a new era , Just before the stormy month
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Yaniv Tuchman
Monday, 04 January 2021, 14:30
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1. The
battered cliché says that it is easier to get the first place than to keep it.
Tell that to the Maccabi Tel Aviv players and they will probably laugh.
In the last two years they have won championships with Vladan Ivic, they have had no problem maintaining the summit.
In the first season with the Serb they only widened the gap from week to week.
Last season, they gave up gas at the start of the playoffs and disappeared.
This season, it seems, is going to be difficult for Maccabi Tel Aviv from the opposite direction because of the bad start.
For the points debt it cooked for itself, Maccabi Tel Aviv is now paying and the pursuit of Maccabi Haifa is especially Sisyphean because in almost every round, Maccabi Tel Aviv plays after the Greens.
Had Barak Bachar and his players omitted points, the motivation to close the gap would have been high.
The problem for Maccabi Tel Aviv is the fact that Maccabi Haifa has been taking all the points lately and even when it is less good than against Hapoel Hadera last Saturday, the strength and deterrence create fear in the rivalry and the victory comes without too much difficulty.
Also tonight (Monday, 20:45, Sport 5) against Maccabi Petah Tikva, Maccabi Tel Aviv will play after Maccabi Haifa knowing that they need a victory just to bring the gap back to 8 points.
So it will be in the midweek cycle that opens tomorrow.
Maccabi Haifa will play first against Hapoel Beer Sheva, Maccabi Tel Aviv only on Thursday against Bnei Yehuda.
The story will repeat itself in the cycle after that, when Maccabi Haifa will once again play before the Yellows and will once again be able to stress them if they win.
Only in two weeks will the two teams play the same day and that's just because they will face each other in a game that will probably really deserve the title of game of the season.
On January 19, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa will face each other and at the end of the game, we will know where this season is going.
By the way, in the round that follows, Maccabi Haifa will play again before Maccabi Tel Aviv.
In any case, in order to maintain a line of sight and maintain a reasonable gap, Maccabi Tel Aviv must win one of the surprises of this season tonight.
After all, Maccabi Petah Tikva, which won the first round at Bloomfield, is the first to reveal that the king is a bit naked this season.
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2.
Players usually maintain solidity in their utterances, especially when talking about their opponents.
Every now and then an interesting sentence worth a headline comes out.
So it was with Dan Glazer at the end of last season.
The player of the season who celebrated a second championship said of Maccabi Haifa: "She was good this season, but she will have to be better next season to take the championship."
Meanwhile, Maccabi Haifa meets Glazer's requirements.
She's better than last season.
The problem with the defensive midfielder's equation is his team.
This season's Maccabi Tel Aviv is far from the past two years of Maccabi Tel Aviv and even if the last two games under Patrick Van Leven show buds of change, its rivals were not of sufficient quality to indicate that Maccabi Tel Aviv Post Age Donis is indeed returning to Ivica's days.
Tonight is another opera.
Maccabi Petah Tikva in the colony is one of the toughest away games in the league.
Not only the talent and work of the hosts but also the turf, which is almost always not working properly, will mean that Maccabi Tel Aviv will have to grit its teeth and spit blood to take three points.
A victory over Liel Abda and his teammates will give another indication and teach that Maccabi Tel Aviv is ready for the stormy month that awaits it with two meetings against Hapoel Beer Sheva, one in the State Cup, and the game against Maccabi Haifa that follows, Maccabi Tel Aviv will know if it is heading for a third consecutive championship.
A game that might mark the way.
Saburit vs. Diniz in the previous round (Photo: Danny Maron)
3.
Eran Zehavi, Hatem 'Abd al-Hamid, Dor Micha, Andre Geraldesh, Idan Nachmias, Raz Shlomo.
The list of candidates for Maccabi Tel Aviv is already full, but it is certainly not final.
No player from this group has closed and some of them are really far away.
But in order for Maccabi Tel Aviv to start the moves, probably with Zehavi or Alhamid who are high-stakes deals, Maccabi Tel Aviv needs to be there in the picture of the titles when the transfer window opens.
On January 10, next Sunday, the window will open and the previous winter windows show that Maccabi Tel Aviv is in no hurry to fire with its heavy weapons at the beginning of the window.
Most teams like to pull towards February so as not to pay the January salaries.
Maccabi Tel Aviv has no problem with money, certainly when it comes to one salary, but it almost always takes the time and sometimes waits until the last days of the window to add someone.
This time Maccabi Tel Aviv arrives at Money Time in the middle of the season with critical games including against Shakhtar Donetsk in a little over a month.
It is doubtful if anything will change in the conduct and Maccabi Tel Aviv will open the window next week with some sensational acquisition.
Patrick Van Leven conveyed to Canada that the staff is good enough to meet the tasks, certainly in the one in the country.
It is therefore possible that they will again wait at the club to see where the wind is blowing with the upcoming results, and then some players will decide to bring in already and if at all make dramatic moves this season.
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