Closing the case: The challenges of Hapoel Beer Sheva in the game of the season

Roni Levy's difficulties following Alhamid's story, the broken approach against Maccabi Tel Aviv that threatens to crumble the game of the season and the open case that Ramzi Spori should close.

Hapoel Beer Sheva has been waiting for this moment in Turner where everything still depends on it and it does not want to miss the opportunity against Maccabi Haifa

Yaniv Tuchman

17/01/2022

Monday, January 17, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

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State Cup summary: Hapoel Beer Sheva wins 1: 2 over Maccabi Netanya from a dramatic goal by Sagiv Yehezkel (Sport 1)

There

is no coach who does not know Maccabi Haifa.

Anyone who comes to play against Barak Bachar's team knows the opponent well.

The players also know what awaits them.

And what they do not know they have received at Hapoel Beer Sheva in recent days.

But that's not the main thing laid on Roni Levy's operating table at the Red House ahead of tonight's game at Turner (20:30).

The cup game last Wednesday in Netanya slightly diluted the meetings ahead of the game of the season, but also in the team minutes that Levy and his team had in the last training sessions and in the personal conversations and video that was shown in private with a team member, the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv last Saturday was in front.

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Just make the opposite of that game (Photo: Danny Maron)

If you will, it was a pretty easy preparation for tonight's game in terms of conversations, tactics, video and approach.

Roni Levy and Arik Bendo told the players something like this: "Look at what you did against Maccabi Tel Aviv. Now do the opposite."

The way the players arrived in Bloomfield a week ago is something they want to clear at Hapoel Beer Sheva for tonight.

It was a game in which every Maccabi Tel Aviv player prevailed over a Hapoel Beer Sheva player.

A game in which countless glitches were counted in favor of the host.

The dominance was noticeable every meter by meter.

"To beat Maccabi Haifa, you have to catch a big day and they will catch a medium and low day," say Hapoel Beer Sheva.

"If we come with the attitude that we came to the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv, we have nothing to look for even if Maccabi Haifa is on a bad day."

Who is better at the gate?

Omri Glazer (Photo: Danny Maron)

2.

Thursday, the day after the victory over Maccabi Netanya in the State Cup, was the day that Roni Levy began to hesitate. The qualification for the quarterfinals of the cup thanks to the goal of Sagiv Yehezkel in the 120th minute, gave a lot of air to the club. After the loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv, the smell of rinsing in Netanya was already in the air. People started calculating who is the better goalkeeper on penalties, Ariel Harush or Danny Amos. But Ezekiel, who had missed a lot by then, scored in the photo finish and sent the players to vent a lot of nerves and pressure in front of the hundreds of fans who came from the south.

The lineup and lineup were in Levy's mind as early as Thursday. This season's game is no ordinary game. This is an event that is being prepared for a few weeks in advance. Players intentionally draw yellow cards so they can play it. Levy was faced with several decisions. Hemlock who returned to goal gave a good performance in the cup, but Omri Glazer made many league rounds as a substitute and was good. Which of them to choose?

On Thursday, too, the news of Corona reaching Helder Lopes and Levy had to think about what was better for him as a left-back.

The coach also knew that he would receive the Portuguese Andre Martinez in Friday's training and Miguel Vitor testified to him that the relationship is coming in good shape and that it is worth thinking about him for tonight's squad.

Levy was also faced with the dilemma of who would team up with Nikita Rokavica.

Itai Schechter that you want as a coach always on the grass in such games or Ezekiel who comes as mentioned with the goal from the cup that lifted both his personal mood and the team.

What is he preparing for the premiere?

Andre Martinez (Photo: Official website, Hapoel Beer Sheva)

But all these deliberations were small money, compared to the event that tormented Levy for more than 24 hours. It is possible that even until this morning, a few hours before the game. Hatem's Abd al-Hamid's departure from training on Tuesday without a permit was a clear red line crossing. Even the apology yesterday in public and in front of the whole group in the locker room, was probably not enough in the past. But Levy, who has come a long way as a coach and has seen a lot of players and locker rooms, decided to put his brake back into training. The one who has to play tonight as a left-back. Anyone who knows him knows that it is not easy for Roni Levy. This situation put him in an almost impossible situation.

Not too late Saturday night he went to bed too to disconnect a bit.

Reach the right insight at night.

The morning on the way to training was pretty locked into the fact that Alhamid would not be on the roster.

But the sincere apology to all the players in the locker room yesterday, did something.

"I was wrong and I apologize from the bottom of my heart," Alhamid told players and the coaching staff.

Levy decided to bring him back to practice and he is on the roster for tonight's game.

A final decision in his case will be close to the time of the game.

He will probably open and will have to be at his best because Maccabi Haifa's heaviest weapon will be aimed at him.

The apology changed the decision.

Alhamid (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

3.

It is certainly not easy for Dor Micha to see that Noble Omar reinvented himself at Maccabi Haifa while shuffling in a circle from which he has not yet been able to get out.

Noble will tonight be as usual on the right side and if there is no surprise, Alhamid will get him as the left defender in the line of five on defense.

Maccabi Haifa relies on Noble, but the offense is not built on him.

She has a lot of firepower.

Hapoel Beer Sheva, in contrast, is very dependent on Spori hints.

Last Saturday in Bloomfield, Mladen Krastić studied it well.

Eden Shamir and Dan Glazer pounced on Spori every time he got the ball.

They will frustrate him.

When he came out in exchange, Spori was on fire.

He was unable to express himself.

In the Netanya Cup, Roni Levy left him on the bench.

Although he was missing, without Miguel Vitor, Hatem Abdelhamid and Niktia Rokavica, Levy gambled on a bench.

When he came in the game was still alive and he was good.

Good for Netanya, not sure good enough against Maccabi Haifa.

Fights not to go back.

Ramzi Spori (Photo: Danny Maron)

Spori is in a different season from anything he has experienced to date in his career.

He recently told candidly how he fought all his life to get to such a moment that a team that wanted a championship would be waiting for him in a season game.

He said he fought not to go back to the darker days, certainly those that were mediocre and categorized him as an unfulfilled promise.

Barak Bachar will surely pay special attention to him tonight, but Maccabi Haifa is breathing and alive on offense.

It sure will leave the stories a lot of space to push the balls forward and also run with them in a double pass to the depths.

The result tonight depends on it and it's a piece of bag on the back.

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