The lightning strikes twice: the change Bachar made to Maccabi Haifa against Maccabi Tel Aviv

Bachar managed to change the mentality of Hapoel Beer Sheva in everything related to Maccabi Tel Aviv.

After last Monday, it is clear: Maccabi Haifa brought him mainly to take care of this part, and he was very successful

From the light of Zechariah

08/01/2022

Saturday, 08 January 2022, 12:00

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Summary of Maccabi Haifa's 2: 3 victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv (Sport1)

As soon as one of the commentators said, a few minutes before the game between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv started this week, that the half time score would be 0: 3 to Haifa, it was clear that it would go in the opposite direction.

Of course, no one expected that after a quarter of an hour the Yellows would lead 0: 2 in what was supposed to be the Greens' big day, but the feeling was that the excess euphoria in the stadium in Haifa would dull the champion's senses and its people would treat the yellow rival as a weak corpse.

But that's how it is, we all have a short memory.

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History seemed to repeat itself.

Maccabi Tel Aviv players celebrate (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

19 years ago, when Maccabi Tel Aviv Jaja and the rush in Kiryat Shalom celebrated, an away game against Yitzhak Shom's Maccabi Haifa awaited it - one of the most exciting teams that have been here. From this game everyone remembers Avi Nemani freezing on the bench. This Maccabi looked terrible and lost four times to zero to its rivals at the top, and the feeling was that revenge would finally come on the field at 0:10 from 1988. .

And by the 77th minute on Monday, history seemed to be repeating itself in a big way. Maccabi Tel Aviv, from the boards almost, safely led 0: 2. Although with a ball that suits Maccabi Jaffa in an away game in Dortmund, but led. 0: 2. When all the demons that hover over Maccabi Haifa in everything related to Maccabi Tel Aviv stand on the line and decide on The greens. About hundreds of thousands of tweets and dozens of newspaper columnists are busy finalizing the knife blade. And suddenly, in one fell swoop and without notice - they switched roles.

The groups switched roles. Sherry and Donio (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

It is possible that Maccabi Tel Aviv was broken by not giving it the penalty a few minutes earlier. There is something we have learned in this life - is that Maccabi Tel Aviv is not falling apart. not like this. It's something that suits other groups, those with a mental problem, those who believe too much in what is written and said about them, those who think they are much bigger than they really are. In short, such a glorious collapse in a game like this is something that was tailor-made for Maccabi Haifa.

Throughout the week, Barak Bachar's genius was ground to a pulp. There is nothing to add but to join the spirit of things. But Bachar is not a genius because he was not pressured from behind or because he threw into the grass everything he could throw, without fear that the next day they would write that he had abandoned his chin / pose / stopfax. Bachar is a genius because already last year, when he arrived, he understood where Maccabi Haifa's problem was: in his head. Only in the head.

Any other coach would fall for this task.

Bachar (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

Honestly, I try to imagine any other coach who could have worked for Maccabi Haifa in the last two years - including Roni Levy, for what he does at Hapoel Beer Sheva this season he deserves the Israel Prize - and sees no possibility of a championship last year, and certainly not a victory last Monday.

It seems like a situation that only Bachar could have succeeded in, and there are quite a few reasons for that, but the main one is actually his bucky character.

It's convenient to fiddle with Bachar in this segment, sometimes he broadcasts a customs broker's vibe during a lunch break, but that's exactly his strength - because beneath all the overly calm clerical appearance it turns out that the man understands big systems management and vision setting (and eradicating complexes against Maccabi Tel Aviv).

And here, this is the third time he's been doing it in less than a decade - and he's not doing badly.

In Izzy's B & Bs he managed to maximize achievements despite particularly modest tools (and to this day people live there on fuel from those years);

In the high-tech capital of Israel, with Alona's checkbook, he galloped forward and took three consecutive championships and actually built an empire there (which could be overturned in two weeks).

And now, with Yaakov Shachar, he quickly characterized the problems of the system - which is mainly a fear of Maccabi Tel Aviv and a strange inferiority complex in front of it, and at the same time he took advantage of the Goldhaarim's unclear coma and here he is attacking again.

A large V mark on the target.

Bachar (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

In the end, coaching football stars is nice.

There is a situation that does not have to be a great genius to be successful with them.

Indeed, in order to change the behavior and mentality patterns of a system, one must be a serious and professional person.

After doing so at Hapoel B'Shlosha, and turning its inferiority complexes against Maccabi Tel Aviv into an almost absolute advantage for several years (this week B'Shlosha plays away against Maccabi, it will be interesting to see if the Bachar effect is still there) - Bachar has been appointed Maccabi Haifa coach To do the exact same thing in Carmel.This week, in a crazy 13-minute blitz, he seems to be able to mark a big V on the target.

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