Who will dress up as Zahavi?

3 keys to Maccabi Tel Aviv's game against PSV

Every time their golden hair is around Maccabi Tel Aviv, something good happens to him.

Tonight (19:45, Sport 3) the Yellows will look for their own "Joker", and on the way send a message to Lax ahead of the possibility of him returning.

And also: what made the Yellows chase the Dutchman Yuris van Aubrey and the gift that Krestich could arrange for himself at the age of 50

Yaniv Tuchman

17/02/2022

Thursday, 17 February 2022, 06:40 Updated: 06:52

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Article by Sharon Davidovich ahead of the meeting between Eran Zehavi and Maccabi Tel Aviv (Sport1)

1.

The summer of 2015 was the summer of Eran Zehavi.

Of course, even in the one before or after him, Zehavi was there for Maccabi Tel Aviv, but in the summer of 2015, or more precisely in 20 days in August 2015, Zehavi was hotter than the scorching sun.

A pair in Pilsen in the Czech Republic, a pair in Basel in Switzerland and another in a reciprocal in Bloomfield.

Five goals in 20 days put Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Champions League for the only time with Mitch Goldhaar.

The Champions League gave rise to disillusionment with the owners of Maccabi Tel Aviv from the illusion that his team could be a member of the major leagues, but before the meetings against Chelsea, Porto and Dynamo Kiev, it was Zahavi with full responsibility for the fantasy.

Tonight, half a year before the start of next season, in a really cosmic encounter, Zehavi will tonight host Maccabi Tel Aviv in his home for the past year and a half, Phillips Stadium in Eindhoven (19:45, Sport3).

In a week he will play in Bloomfield and then this cold wind will surely get excited, but tonight it's also a meeting piece.

Goldhaar wants him for next season, it's no secret.

Goldhaar wants to return to being number one in the country and is willing to pay.

But Goldhaar also wants to taste more of the Conference League.

Tonight's game and this one in a week's will decide which of the two will qualify for the round of 16.

PSV is a clear favorite.

Out of ten games at Indhoven she is set to win nine.

But every time Zahavi is around Maccabi Tel Aviv, something special happens.

Happens to him, but can also happen to her.

It is able to go to each of the parties and the question is who in Maccabi Tel Aviv can dress up as Eran Zehavi tonight.

Mladen Krestajic is considering bringing in Georgia Juvanovic in the squad and he is hot, Dan Bitton is in excellent shape and maybe Gabi Knikowski will catch up tonight.

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Krestajic is considering changing lineup and placing Juvanovic on the sidelines against PSV

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Amazing days, not to be forgotten.

Gold in Basel (Photo: GettyImages, Simon Hofmann)

Raises Maccabi to the Champions League alone.

Zehavi (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)

It is doubtful if anyone will bet on one of the Maccabi Tel Aviv players in such a duel against Eran Zehavi, but beyond his personal desire to conquer and continue to the next round, Eran Zehavi will also examine the goods from Tel Aviv in these pair of games.

No less important for him to earn well during the playing season, he wants to see that he has the tools at Maccabi Tel Aviv to return the championship to the team.

If there's a challenge, Zehavi will want to meet it and the constant talk that a legionnaire can not succeed when he returns here after a few good years out, is something that can only ignite him.

Spur him on.

If he passes Maccabi Tel Aviv, he will be happy.

If he sees that the team in front of him is equal and its coach knows the job, it will increase the desire to return.

In both cases he will benefit.

Who will take command and wonder? (Photo: Danny Maron)

Zehavi

will not be the only league player in the Netherlands to follow Maccabi Tel Aviv tonight.

Yuris van O'Brien will also watch the game.

Van Aubrey is scheduled to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv next season.

The Utrecht connection is being returned by Maccabi Tel Aviv, which raised its offer after realizing that Maccabi Haifa is also in the picture.

Van Uberim is a Jew on the side of his mother, who was formerly an Israeli citizen.

Due to that, he is supposed to play next season in Israel as an Israeli and this is a very important addition to the decision to bring him.

He does not sit on the quota of strangers.

Van Uber also wants to see where he is going and for him Maccabi Tel Aviv tonight, can do great service.

Maccabi Haifa courted him earlier but offered an amount that Maccabi Tel Aviv increased significantly.

He is a free agent so in his case, unlike Lubanovic, you do not have to pay for the ticket.

The salary is high, more than 400,000 euros net per season, but Goldhaar is willing to pay.

Mavis Maccabi Tel Aviv did not want to compete for Mavis Chibuta.

Gave Maccabi Haifa the entire area and did not interfere in the negotiations.

In Van Uber's story, Maccabi Tel Aviv decided not to sit on the fence.

Here it was already clear that she would not give up first because this is a player who can play as an Israeli and after that because this is a good player and one who ends a contract.

More on Walla!

PSV lacks staff against Maccabi Tel Aviv, Schmidt will be "creative", "the burden of proof" on Zehavi

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Opportunity to prove.

Krasteich (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

3.

His beautiful years as a footballer were made by Mladen Krestic not far from where he will stand on the lines tonight.

Step from Eindhoven and cross the border coming from Germany to Bremen or Schalke the clubs where the Serb played as a stopper 20 years ago.

Krestic came to the Serbian national team as a coach already in his first job as a coach five years ago, but he always wanted to experience what it is like to be a head coach at the club.

In daily work.

Bachka Topula had his first experience in the Serbian league, but Maccabi Tel Aviv is his big test.

In a little over two weeks he will be 50 years old and he can not ask for a bigger gift from dismissing a team in the profile of PSV Indhoven.

It will be good for his record and it will settle his contract for the next two years at Maccabi Tel Aviv.

As per his employer's command, Krastić scattered throughout the week and especially last night many messages about the courage he expects to see from his players tonight.

Yes, there are gaps in favor of PSV, but if you make a good result, one that will transfer the decision to Tel Aviv, it is during this period that it is the best of Maccabi Tel Aviv since the beginning of the season.

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