1. Slobodan Drapic arrived in Kiryat Shmona after nine rounds as they are in last place with eight points and look like a team with no future, no hope and no dream.
A young team, which has failed with almost all the foreigners in what appears to be a proven recipe for relegation.
But Drapich, a diligent and brilliant footballer, simply turned the team around without any outside addition, even on the contrary, his leading stopper Stefan Aka, was injured in his third game and finished the season.
Drapich chose the diamond set, built a link based on very talented and intense children in the form of Samuel Brown (year 98) and Yadin Lugassi (99) who grew up in the club and Nadav Nidam (2001) on loan from Maccabi Tel Aviv, while in defense he managed to bring out leadership and abilities from Id Habashi That some have been lost to him in recent years.
The cup draw brought Maccabi Tel Aviv to Kash, who also has a Serbian coach on its lines, who received a confused, pointless team that started the season very badly and he is also looking for the right way to run it forward. So Mladen Krestajic has been here for a month and you can already see a new way for the Yellows. He goes for the local players, with the foreigners, Hernandez, Kwas, Fritsa and Geralds, becoming sub-players at best and irrelevant at worst. Because he wants to develop a direct football style and less based on ball control, intense players who join from second line like Shamir, Rikan, Kanikovsky get priority in the link and fast players like Hozaz and Almog get an advantage on offense.
Those who stole the show in the game were the referees, led by Uriel Greenfeld, but mostly his assistants, who were inaccurate, often made mistakes (mostly against the visitors) and increased their efforts when approving Morgan Freyer's goal, although Daniel Peretz apparently fended it off before crossing the full line. .
Also thanks to these mistakes we got a fascinating and dramatic game, which was decided in favor of the Yellows only after a duel from the penalty spot.
The two heroes of the game for the Yellows were Avi Rikan, who scored a great goal (and also scored in the penalty shootout) and proved leadership in his minutes on the field and Daniel Peretz, who received compliments from his coach and showed great mental abilities, recovering from his mistake in the first goal. The evening as a conductor.
Ohana oversees Abu Fani, last night in Sami.
Level differences are clear, Photo: Maor Elkelsi
2. When the draw for the quarterfinals convened a meeting between Maccabi Haifa and Beitar Jerusalem, the memory immediately took us to the big meetings from the past, with one of the most memorable being the mythical Cup final in the 88/89 season. The last game of the legendary Uri Melmillian in Beitar, the great performance of Avi Cohen of Jerusalem, the unforgettable goal of Ofer Mizrahi in the slalom from the half of the field on the buzzer and Nir Klinger's decisive penalty miss in the penalty shootout.
So memory apart and reality apart.
The first half showed that the gap between the teams had never been so big.
Haifa scored three easy goals in the first half and if it had to score eight goals, that's what would have happened.
Beitar's condition is deteriorating from moment to moment.
She came up with a defensive quartet that barely fits to the bottom of the second division, Michael Ohana really tries, but his legs can no longer.
Zargari, perhaps the great talent that has grown in the youth department over the last two decades, seems helpless, and his defense will say that even if Rodry had played in his place it would have looked pretty similar, she has just given up on the coaching position.
How sad and how far from that cup final 32 and a half years ago.
BS celebrates. Once again reveals character, Photo: Berni Ardov
Just before the game of the season and four days after the first loss in the league, Roni Levy and his trainees left for Netanya in the hope of forgetting the loss in Bloomfield and coming to the game of the season in a good mood.
Netanya started strong, but a correct tactical response from Roni Levy, when he moved to line 4, balanced the game.
At the end of the evening BS won a huge goal from Schechter and a beautiful goal by Ezekiel (who often misses and maybe this goal will release him) on the buzzer of overtime, which is very important for a team that depends heavily on Spori and Rokavica's numbers. That will give her peace of mind to prepare for the game of the season, against the most predatory and offensive team that has been in the league since the second championship team of the same BS, the team of Bachar, Vitor, Melikson and Wakama.
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