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Resistance movement: Summary of the first round with a warning to Maccabi Haifa

Like the glittering Maccabi Netanya of 1982, Maccabi Haifa may find that later in the season the rivals will stop panicking and start taking points from it.

And if Hapoel Beer Sheva continues to dress up as the 1982 Hapoel Kfar Saba model, maybe it will still win its biggest championship ever

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Ron Amikam

Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 12:00 p.m.

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Summary of Maccabi Haifa's 1: 2 victory over Betar Jerusalem (Sport 1)

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week to week, the 2021/2 season reminds me of the 1981/2 season, exactly 40 years ago. Maccabi Netanya then introduced its largest team in history - larger than the one that won the championship a decade earlier and ran over the league, larger than the one that traveled later in the season under the title "Netanya and 15 more". The Netanya of 1981/82 slaughtered groups, stripped large clubs of their status week after week. Even in this season's game, she gave a five to whoever would later become the champion - Hapoel Kfar Saba. The thing is, after the smoke of the oooh spread, Netanya was hit. Whenever they dared to oppose her, she failed. Kfar Saba, on the other hand, snatched nothing but that quintet, and made its victories with remarkable tenacity and so it turned out, that because she tried so hard to stay in the race, she also won it. In the last rounds, Netanya continued to play well, but teams were not frightened by it and were bitten by its strength.

Maccabi Haifa in the first half yesterday flooded the field in a way that reminded me of the impressive Netanya. Abu Fani as Bnei Lem, Dean David as Oded Makhanes, Goodsey Donio as David Lavie, Noble Omar on the dividing line of Moshe Griani. Even Planich showed the strengths of a wild life. Netanya, ie Haifa, swept Betar Jerusalem and without the revamped VAR, it would have gone down with 0: 3 at the half.

But Betar Jerusalem has a new spirit of command. Erwin Koeman's suffering and panic have been replaced by the grumbling face of the Israeli Fred Rotten - Yossi Mizrahi.

Yesterday she had two stars for 26 minutes - including injury time - and suddenly Maccabi Haifa discovered that the team opposite is not really afraid of her, is not eliminated in her face, and if there is an extension - like in the cup this weekend - she will make another comeback.

Jordan Shua is no longer alone.

Yossi Mizrahi, who will forever be brave and practical enough to dare, sent the hungry Michael Ohana to him.

We'll be playing football there.

For the first time in years, Betar Jerusalem initiated, controlled, pushed its formidable rival to its hair. It did not come to sting, but to devour.

Maccabi Haifa will have to be careful about that.

It's not just Hapoel Beer Sheva - the contemporary Kfar Saba - that almost does not drop points, it is itself.

Total football will not always be played in one side.

It was not only the arrogance and arrogance with which Haifa rose in the second half, it was also the opponent.

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(Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

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2.

What a passage. Along with its collapse in the Conference League, last night Maccabi Tel Aviv summed up Barak Yitzhaki's work in six league games, four wins and two draws, 14 points in 6 rounds compared to seven in seven rounds achieved by Patrick Van Leven. 100 percent improvement. For Van Leven, the goal difference was 13: 7 and for Yitzhaki 5:13. Van Leven went home with Maccabi in 12th place and Yitzhaki in fourth place. Although 10 points from first place, but Yitzhaki is not responsible for Roni Levy's results either. He barely wanted to be responsible for the results of Maccabi Tel Aviv. And most importantly: when Patrick van Leven was fired from the campaign, Tal Ben Haim was a selfie that every Maccabi Tel Aviv fan kept on his smartphone from the 2015 championship, from the opening rounds of the 2016/17 season, the one that flew him to the Czech Republic for 2.9 million euros.

Ben Haim shared minutes of frustration with Elon Almog, one of his many fans. Yitzhaki brought them back into rotation, Almog brought hundreds of thousands of euros from Armenia on Thursday, Ben Haim brought a duo yesterday, for the first time in 5 seasons. He has 4 league goals in 5 games this season, exactly the amount of league goals he has had since that well-publicized move: two in the Sparta Prague reserve team and two more goals in Van Leven's two opening games last season. Now comes the new Serbian general, who watched yesterday from the isolation of the intensities left to an elderly living man. If he continues in Yitzhaki's line, TBach's story will be a comeback from the movies.

So beyond the fact that Yitzhaki was a success as a coach in the league and a fiasco in the Conference League, he leaves Mladen Krastic a fresh staff, from whom football can be made. True, this is not Maccabi Haifa football, but Hapoel Beer Sheva is also not Maccabi Haifa and leads by two points.

There was nothing against Maccabi yesterday.

Menachem Koretzky claimed at the end that this is Hadera's weakest game since he became its coach.

She finishes the first round in sixth place, but within a bunch of five teams, from fifth to ninth, with a single point separating them, all staring at the top playoffs.

If there is anyone other than Oren Golan who believes that it will end in a top playoff, against the multitude of talented rivals in this group - rehabilitation.

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Yitzhaki leaves Karstic a fresh squad from which football can be made (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

3.

Roni Levy can feel comfortable with the comparison to Dror Kashtan of the 1981/82 season and even Ran Ben Shimon of 2011/12. For not counting them, they continued to take points and eventually won sensational titles. If Beer Sheva is crowned champion at the end of the season it will be bigger than almost all of its previous 5 championships (maybe except for that of the 15/16 season) because it will be unexpected in front of a football machine led by the best coach of the last generation.

But even if he does not win the championship, Roni Levy has regained a lot of shares he has lost since the eighth round of the UEFA Cup final 14 years ago. It is clear what would have stopped Maccabi Haifa from breaking the record for Hapoel Petah Tikva's consecutive championships. The first round.

Roni Levy is the coach of the round, not only because he is in first place, without a loss, and with the same number of victories as Maccabi Haifa, but because under him this season a player who we did not think would come out and today he fights Omar Atzili and Biram Kiel for the title of best player in the league : Spurs hints.

Roni Levy overcame Ariel Harush's serious injury two and a half months ago and has since conceded just five goals.

Its balance against the other 4 big ones in Israeli football - the prestige games - is also insane: 100 percent success and a total goal difference of 2: 8.

To each of them he gave 2, the edge of the limit of Beer Sheva's offensive ability (only Hapoel Jerusalem snatched 3 from it).

Be'er Sheva is impressive in its efficiency, but more than that, it is impressive in its decisive games.

It's hard to say if that will be enough when the gap at the top is only 2 points, but at least it will be possible to frame this first round in the living room, alongside the 1975 championship poster.

An essay that may yield a great degree.

Roni Levy and Ramzi Spori (Photo: Danny Maron)

4.

Avi Luzon's preoccupation with the origin of the fourth referee in the game against Bnei Sakhnin in Kiryat Shmona shifted the preoccupation with the origin of the Maccabi Petah Tikva coach.

In Guy Luzon's previous dismal round at Maccabi Petah Tikva, it was claimed that in everything related to the team and family, Avi Luzon will put the team in the lead.

It seems that the years - as well as the children and nephews who fill the club with the quality of their skills - have increased the nepotism in the club.

The question is whether the table looks different at Saturday night meals and whether Maccabi Petah Tikva - the players producing Kabra, the successful management model - does not carry 13 teams on its shoulders.

To their credit, luzons are not a single miksha.

There is opposition there, and there are arguments, and there are diverse opinions that are also said.

Maccabi Petah Tikva cannot afford to go down for the third time in a decade, because beyond being a player and money factory, it is a family life enterprise.

And not only does Avi Luzon need to understand this, Guy Luzon also needs to understand this.

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