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Bad business: The embarrassing performance eliminated Rotensteiner's chances of continuing on the team

The whole concept of Willy Rotensteiner collapsed in the moment of truth and would leave no choice for the Football Association but to look for a new coach for the team after the Austrian era.

Even the coach's two most loyal soldiers were forced to leave the lawn symbolically early

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• Willy Rotensteiner

Yaniv Tuchman

Saturday, November 13, 2021, 10:00 p.m.

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Summary: Austria - Israel 2.4 (Sports 1)

The embarrassing performance of the Israeli national team last night (Friday) in Klagenfurt against Austria, which ended in a 4: 2 loss, blocked the chances of Willy Rotensteiner continuing as coach of the Israeli national team for another campaign. Also the possibility that the Football Association will date the national coach the agreement was not high, but the chairman of the Football Association Oren Hasson who has been keeping his cards close to his chest for a long time, hoped to see another end to the campaign with 6 points out of 6 possible against Austria and the Faroe Islands or at least 4 Points from a draw in Austria that would express proof of any leap we made. No one in the Football Association imagined that in the moment of truth the national team would look so bad in a game that was very important to them. It's not a matter of location as important as it may be. Israel still has a chance to finish third ahead of Austria if they can convincingly beat the Faroe Islands on Monday. The big break after last night is in the collapse of the whole conception on which Willy Rotensteiner has relied in recent months.

For the Austrian, the team has made great progress since joining the Football Association as a professional manager and especially since he replaced Andy Herzog.

It was the main ticket on which the Austrian relied and at the most important point for him, his team presented one of its worst games since we returned to play in Europe.

Had it not been for Ophir Marciano's excellent ability it would have ended much worse in terms of the result and players on the team agreed that a result of 2: 7, for example, was much more realistic for what was on the pitch.

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Scared and casual game.

Rotensteiner (Photo: Bernie Ardov)

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It was a frightened and ordinary game that illustrated all the ills of Israeli football and the national team.

The coach touched all the days before the game on the variety of mistakes the team made in almost every one of the 15 goals it conceded and then the players came into the game and made almost every defensive move on the way to absorbing four more goals and a total of 19 mandatory goals in nine games.

Defenders Eli Desa and San Menachem did not receive a single offensive action that was worthy, let alone Manor Solomon, who is supposed to be the man to settle situations for the strikers, and time and time again he seems helpless in the face of Austrian physicality which is quite average at European level.

Was not there for him.

Golden (Photo: Reuters)

Symbolically, Rotensteiner's two most loyal soldiers, Eran Zehavi and Beavers Natcho, left the field and could not be there for him.

We are used to Natcho's replacement in the second half, but to see him come out after just a few minutes in the first half, it was really metaphorical.

The captain of the team, the man who received a lot of credit from the Austrian was forced to leave due to medical interest.

And gold?

When did you see him lose a minute of play?

In the past he said he was asking the coach not to take him out even after a personal hat-trick and last night at the most important moment of the Austrian, Zehavi, who suffered a significant concussion to the knee in the first half, could not be on the pitch until the end and had to be substituted.

Rotensteiner's players really love him and play for him, but if that's all they've been able to do on their own so that their coach has a chance to continue, then the problems of Israeli football and the Israeli footballer are much deeper.

The hourglass of the next coach to come after Rotensteiner has already started ticking.

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