Stepping in place: The Israeli team must make a significant leap forward - Walla! sport

2021-09-08T07:11:28.633Z

Israel remained in third place at the end of another national team break, after another bad defense game. If in Mexico 70 we played with brakes in link and attack, today the only natural brake is too slow

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Stepping in place: The Israeli team must make a significant leap forward

Israel remained in third place at the end of another national team break, after another bad game by the defensive squad.

If in Mexico 70 we played with brakes in link and offense, today the only natural brake on the roster is already too slow and unable to move a ball.

It will not be solved in tall players or athletes, but in a change of perception

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What we saw in front of the Danes did not look like a defense (Photo: Reuters)

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The Israeli team came up with three players in the role of brake, but did not start with three brakes, as has been the case in almost every game since Willy Rotensteiner arrived in Israeli football. Hatem 'Abd al-Hamid grew up at Maccabi Tel Aviv as a striker, Uriel Degani at Maccabi Netanya as a right-back and even his replacement, San Menachem, has been a wingback since his days in Ramat Hasharon. What was decided to do with them later in their careers was a constraint, but one that did not turn them into good brakes, certainly not team brakes. Nir Bitton is also not a brake but a back contact, Joel Abu Hanna is a left defender (in line four), and Iyad Abu Abid is a right defender. In Mexico 70, the Israeli team played with brakes in defensive positions, with brakes in liaison positions and even with a brake in the role of a left winger. In other words, in the only World Cup we reached, we performed with the best brakes in the history of Israeli football, in almost most positions on the field, just because there were so many. Today we claim to reach the World Cup without brakes and with one natural brake, who is already 33 years old,Too slow for these levels and unable to move a ball.

The Israeli team now has a defensive coach, Tal Ben Haim.

It was his first window in office and he deserves 100 days of grace, and yet, he has a ton of work to do, because what we saw in the park would not have looked like protection.

Israel conceded three goals from the same standout and from a stationary position.

In all three cases, and in other cases, the Israeli defender waited for the ball, did not attack it, did not place his body where the Danish player was supposed to meet the ball and largely watched with interest during the course, certainly when the guard is regional.

There is a sweeping basic defect here, which has not been resolved at any age, in any club, and under any managerial-professional, foreign or local constellation.

It will not be resolved in tall players, nor in athletic players nor in precise coverage.

It will be solved by changing perception.

Too slow for these levels.

Tibi (Photo: Reuters)

Yesterday was a holiday for the Israeli football categorizers, who have been claiming for years that if we accidentally go up to a big tournament, "we will stink the grass there." By and large, these are people who have seen more games on TV than on the field, certainly football from abroad rather than local football. Denmark, for example, is one of the four best teams in Europe today, among the eight best teams in the world. Once 7: 0 than seven times 1: 0 ".

Austria is among the 16 best teams in Europe, and it snatched a top five from Israel, and not for the first time. That is, in the World Cup of 32 teams, Israel will not be the weakest team in the tournament. .

Even yesterday, in the few sections where the team demonstrated a drop of football, we could see the quality. Both of its gates were disqualified by VAR. Once because of a small difference and once because of a random offense. That is, even against a team that has not conceded a goal so far and scored a quartet in Vienna, Israel was worth a goal. And this is the Israeli team today: it has a quality of the forefront, players from good leagues in Europe, some of them senior, and players who also play regularly and even lead their teams. This is a privilege that the Israeli team is unlikely to have in one window of time in the future. That is, where the defense will play close and close, and move patiently, and the link will be aggressive in the middle third, the quality on offense will create an advantage. We have seen this at times in Slovenia and Austria in the Euro qualifiers, certainly in the two away games against the sluts at home in the current tournament. Against a team that is not at the level of Denmark, Israel plays equally in attack and is even better. Against Scotland in October, where you have to win to dream of a place higher than third,This is exactly the place to combine all the keys to victory.

In such games one must show boldness.

Golden (Photo: Reuters)

Because what we learned last week was that thinking has changed.

Israel did not come to play bunker, it came to play football and give a chapter on risk management.

The team plays open, sometimes a little adventurous - with Eli Desa and Menachem near the plazas - and has a deadly executioner.

In a short tournament, which brings you at least with three better teams on paper, you must show courage, otherwise you will not be able to advance.

The difference between another tournament where you get a big win and still finish in fourth place, and a tournament where you get a place in the playoffs, is another big win, one that has never been achieved.

If this daring and this adventure can produce one great victory, why not produce two?

And let it be clear, that will be enough for second place, and even if Israel flies in the playoffs, it will still be an achievement - another playoff for promotion to a big tournament, second in a row.

Abstinence in the style of previous national team coaches, will take us to the real fourth place.

And there we were already.

The future of the team.

Kartsev (Photo: Liron Moldovan)

In the last window, the team gained two players responsible for the goal that finally defeated Austria: Dan Glazer and Sean Weissman.

This guaranteed them a place in the national team in the game in Denmark.

Dolev Haziza and Menachem also promoted their status.

Although Rotensteiner sometimes seems to be fixed, and insists on the same names, he takes advantage of the five-exchange law properly and rubs reserve players for the next campaign, because in two months another campaign will end for him, followed by more team players heading for sunset.

The Football Association is once again dealing with the renewal of Rotensteiner's contract according to the result index.

It seems that the multiplicity of campaigns and their shortening - due to the entry of the League of Nations enterprise - creates a situation where the threshold of progress is more important than changing the face of the result.

It is impossible to say today that the Israeli team did not progress, in the same breath that it can be said that in the defensive game it is only going backwards.

The process is in full swing and it must not be forgotten that the team plays Eran Zehavi, who is a once-in-a-generation player, not related to development in academia abroad, but to a meteoric boom. Manor Solomon and Liel Abda are the future of Israeli football. Everyone will go to Europe and become leading players, the team will look better in the next campaign as well.

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