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Opinion | Chess-Mat: When Bachar defeated Krastich | Israel today

2022-01-04T06:37:21.812Z


As in many of the recent meetings between them - this time too the confrontation between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi surpassed all imagination • The Greens coach finally broke the yellow barrier, the Serbs of the Yellows still did not match expectations with his staff • Interpretation


The encounters between the two Maccabiahs from Haifa and Tel Aviv always arouse a lot of tension, expectations and excitement, many times they also meet expectations and in the last two years some of these encounters have even surpassed them. 

Beyond the absolute superiority that Maccabi Tel Aviv has shown against Haifa in recent years, Bachar and his players remembered very well that even last season, the championship season of Haifa, they failed to break the yellow barrier. Krestajic, who changed a lot of things in the short time he was here, which made Bachar's ability to prepare for the game more difficult.

What was clear was that Krestic would open with three brakes, that he would give the credit to Shamir in the link and Almog in the attack, that he would try to open as hard and aggressively as possible and that is exactly why he opened with Dan Glazer in the link next to Shamir instead of Kanikovsky.

Haifa started with its regular squad, only that in the absence of Rodriguez, who excelled as a defender in recent games, he was given a chance in the Ryan Strain squad, hoping that his offensive ability would give Noble, the best player in the league, more options on the right wing. 

Maccabi Tel Aviv started in a dream with a goal before the clock ended a round and a wonderful second goal by Shamir in the 14th minute. But as we learned in the last games between the teams in the last two years, 2: 0 is a very liquid advantage - 3 times in the last two years Early by two goals, twice it was Haifa, so if Krestic made Bachar chess in preparation for the game, Bachar made him a mat in managing the game.

Both coaches made a double substitution three minutes apart.

Krestajic put in the frustrated break-in from his new position and Ben-Haim instead of Hozaz and Drago who were excellent, and Becher messed up the game when he put Donio in place of Muhammad and Menachem in place of Meir.

Maccabi Tel Aviv's first two goals came after very soft losses of a break in the center of the field, when he came down from the striker's position to get an away ball (in the second goal he got the ball from Glazer's distance after an away ball) and in his loss takes half a team out of the game. Bachar cooked the first and scored the second.

More than that, Bachar put Ben Shehar right after Shari's shrinking goal instead of Strain, in a clear message to the players where the game is headed.

Although Mt.  

Meyer and Saborit.

What a great game we got in Sami Ofer, Photo: Oded Karni,

The seasonal gaps between the teams are large.

Maccabi Tel Aviv did not organize well for the season, made a mistake with the purchasing players (both in timing and quality), pulled too much time with Van Levon, did not prepare an alternative for the coach when the end was clear for a long time and the question was just the date. Great coach, but clearly he is not really her first choice - he has difficulties with the language and it seems at least from his first month, that the staff really does not match his way, especially the foreign players.

On the other hand, Barak Bachar continues to smash every possible barrier.

Haifa prepared great for the season and built a deep squad that will also overcome injuries of key players and the departure of others.

But Bachar is its relative advantage over any other group.

His use of the wide team around him, his ability to improve players at the individual level, his original thinking, meticulous preparation for games, his wonderful ability to respond and change formations in games where things go wrong, without compromising his offensive and defensive coordination and excellent substitutions make all the difference. 

Yesterday's game in Sami Ofer definitely entered the Israeli football pantheon and did a lot of respect to everyone involved in the magical evening we had.

This game also made it clear that this season we are going to fight for a bipartisan championship and not even this meadow head will be yellow.

In the difficult days we experience, with a lot of corona discussions, isolations and graphs of little Moise, it is a great pleasure that Israeli football provides us with such an evening of head cleaning.

I just hope we keep to ourselves, stick to the guidelines, whoever has not been vaccinated, get vaccinated, and continue to see the stadiums full.

Because without the crowds of both sides, this evening would not have happened.

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Source: israelhayom

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