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Everything stands still
Hapoel Beer Sheva is back again in the second half in Kiryat Shmona for the depressing football, but at least can draw encouragement from Rokavitsia, who has the task of raising the faltering offensive output.
David Rosenthal touches on the explosive question at Maccabi Tel Aviv: How much does Mitch Goldhaar care about the team?
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David Rosenthal
Sunday, November 28, 2021, 10:30 p.m.
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Summary: Urbani Kiryat Shmona - Hapoel Beer Sheva 2: 1 (Sport 1)
Yesterday, before the opening whistle for the game in Kiryat Shmona, it seemed that not three weeks had passed since the previous round in the Premier League, but much more. Let’s face it, a national team break is a bone in the throat for football fans, not only because of the lack of happening in teams during a game, but also because of the vacuum created before and after it. Add to that the endearing bonus of the arm, and here we have hell in its incarnation.
The one who was probably pleased with the forced recess is Roni Levy, whose flames of criticism have subsided. Hapoel Beer Sheva went out for this freedom with a lot of time to fix, and for one half in Kiryat Shmona it seemed that it was indeed on the right track. This game, at least according to the first 45 minutes, was supposed to mark the change of direction of the team in terms of style and results.
Some would say that victory is victory, especially after returning from such a long hiatus.
There is truth in that, of course, but yesterday's game was supposed to be a statement event, of 0: 3 or 0: 4 that deserves a few more days of quiet.
Instead, we got a stressful and nervous second half and a tight 1: 2.
On Wednesday, Beer Sheva will host Hapoel Tel Aviv, a team that has always had trouble with Turner.
Will the good news come out of this game?
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Finally waking up.
Rokavitsia (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
If there is good news, other than the victory itself, it comes in the form of Nikita Rokavitsia. After a stuttering season opener, the striker scored his third goal in four games yesterday. The goal he scored was Vintage Rokavitsia - speed, sharpness, accuracy - and a ball in the net.
In February she fell ill in Corona, it took him a while to recover and he did not return the same player. The speed and determination disappeared, Maccabi Haifa managed without the scorer who scored 16 goals in 17 games. The bet on him was not easy for Be'er Sheva, the price he demanded was too high and he came only after all the options were closed to him. The opening of the current season looked like the end of the previous one. With and without regard to personal fitness, add to this an adaptation to a new club, a new coach and a new method and you will get a mass that it is not clear what will come out of it.
Rokavitsia's goal yesterday is, perhaps, further proof that the Australian is starting to come back to himself.
Against Ashdod brought a point, yesterday the goal turned out to be a difference between a draw and a victory.
If he continues with this presence, he may be the man to help Roni Levy lower the fire from Turner's stands.
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What's going on with Goldhaar?
Among Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, and maybe not only, running around every few years will be almost philosophical: what is the degree of Mitch Goldhaar's involvement and what is his desire to invest in the team?
For more than a decade it has been under his ownership, with very clear periods of success and failure. Except, perhaps, for the 2015/16 season which was big in all parameters and ended without a title, at the Canadian Maccabi Tel Aviv the business is usually clear: either it takes a championship, or it sputtering all the way to second place. And yes, there is last season, where the Yellows were in the picture until the last round and even won the trophy, but already in real time it was clear that this is an exaggerated statistical correction and involved a lot of luck. This was not a good enough team.
The success and lack of success at Maccabi Tel Aviv usually comes in accordance with the managerial structure.
When there is a general manager, the team is more successful. When it is not, the summer looks very bad and then the results. Many mistakes have been made at Maccabi Tel Aviv in the last two years, most of them due to the club not having a real owner. Of Goldhaar rises again, as has already happened in the past.
Last visit to Israel.
Goldhaar bids farewell to Ben Mansford (Photo: Danny Maron)
Goldhaar does not act according to accepted media rules, not only with the journalists but also with the people of the club itself. His confident fans will just want him, if he just pushes the button, the club will make a switch. This was true once, in 2017, when he appointed Ben Mansford as CEO, a move that bore good fruit a year later. On the other hand, too many times he disappeared and poor communications, there is nothing to talk about a visit to Israel (the last time was before Two years in parting from Ben Mansford), and as a whole he seems very uninvolved in what is going on, letting the business run even when he is barely limping.
So what is the answer?
The answer is that there is no answer.
The late striker Shia Glazer said / asked at the time "If I do not know what I am going to do, how will the defender know what I am going to do?".
This seems to be exactly the nature of Goldhaar's relationship with anyone in contact with him, no one knows what will happen.
This is the reality to which they have become accustomed in Kiryat Shalom, only it clashes a bit with the mantras of vision, way and clear lines.
Goldhaar has brought a lot of good things to Israeli football in general and to Maccabi Tel Aviv in particular, but at this stage it is permissible to raise the issue of his commitment to the club.
There may not be an answer, the question is certainly legitimate.
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A good end to a difficult week
After a not easy, even ugly week, that Hapoel Tel Aviv went through, it's time for a good word.
In January, the Ashkenazi family will mark the two-year anniversary of the death of Yinon Ashkenazi, one of the group's best-known and beloved fans in recent decades.
Ashkenazi was no longer a fan.
His son was then a cruiser fighter who fell in battle in Gaza in 2003, and has since established an educational commemorative enterprise in his son’s name.
Ashkenazi regularly visited Gate 7 and hung a sign with the slogan "The late Erez Ashkenazi, a red that will not be forgotten" every season.
A beautiful initiative.
Yinon and Erez Ashkenazi (Photo: Yachz)
Tonight, Hapoel Tel Aviv fans who come to Bloomfield for the game against Maccabi Haifa, will feel the return of some of this beautiful tradition.
Several of the group's fans decided to contact the family and ask their permission to hang a new sign in memory of Yinon and Erez Benno, under the caption, "Yinon and Erez Ashkenazi - reds that will not be forgotten," with a joint photo of the two.
The Ashkenazi family and Yinon's grandson, who subscribe to the team's games, said they would come to the game and told fans that they were grateful for the gesture.
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