Life on the edge: The triple struggle that opened up in the Premier League
Hapoel Beer Sheva was just looking for someone to let them play, at Maccabi Tel Aviv the coach is doing experiments on a bored gamer and the result is a triple championship fight.
David Rosenthal is enthusiastic about the race that opened, but mentions that Bachar was in a film like this twice - and a winner came out of it
David Rosenthal
08/03/2022
Tuesday, 08 March 2022, 14:30
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The 1: 3 summary of Maccabi Tel Aviv over Betar Jerusalem (Sports 1)
A little over a month and a half ago, after Maccabi Haifa won in Be'er Sheva, it increased the gap at the top to four points.
Even today, seven rounds later, the difference is the same, but what a difference.
Suddenly, Hapoel Beer Sheva, in one game, returns to the championship battle.
Suddenly, as if she had never been out of the fight, Maccabi Tel Aviv squints lustfully behind them.
It is difficult to accept Hapoel Beer Sheva's enthusiasm for the victory over Hapoel Haifa.
In the group flying over Aliniv Barda, he himself is already considering what he has refused to consider in the past - continuing to stand on the lines.
Wait, guys, where are you going?
You won one game at home, yes?
On the other hand, it is also easy to understand where this euphoria is coming from.
Hapoel Beer Sheva played football on Sunday and also, Rahmana Letzelen, scored three goals.
In one game.
Rokavitsia scored a double in seven minutes.
The crowd is encouraging, there is life in Turner.
We still do not know how Barda will react to the varied changes of Mladen Krestic or the tactics of Barak Bachar, one thing is clear - he lets his players try and attack, Hapoel Beer Sheva is set free.
At this point he is still the sports teacher who gives the students a ball instead of running them in the school yard.
The smile is back, and that's all this team needs, at least for now.
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Just let them play (Photo: Danny Maron)
Maccabi Tel Aviv's victory over Betar Jerusalem was expected, but nothing in Maccabi Tel Aviv is obvious with Yossi Aboksis facing it. Time to turn a table and show that you're the crazy one not to mess with.
Sometimes Krastic seems to coach out of a sense that he has nothing to lose.
That's true, by the way, he really does not have.
He signed for half a season, got a team in catatonic condition and knew that no matter what and no matter what he did, the black stamp on this season would not come with his ink.
So he does experiments - takes out a brake, puts in a striker, throws Tal Ben-Haim as a right-back.
The thing with Krasteich is that you will not see these intricacies not only against Betar, but also in Haifa and Eindhoven. He will make the same psychic moves that bored gamers make in both the smallest events and the biggest struggles. That no one expected him to enter.
It's hard to say that Krestic is up for a test, he has already done his part by establishing himself as a coach with daring (which is certainly not a trivial matter).
Those who are under a magnifying glass are Dan Bitton and Gabi Kanikovsky.
So far they too have been in the run-up period, now the real test begins.
Bitton and Knikowski are good players, even excellent, but still need to show what they are worth in stressful situations.
Yesterday in the first half they were neutralized by the middle-minus link of Betar Jerusalem. In the second half, after Krastich's bets, they already had someone to play with and the result was cooking for everyone.
As Maccabi Tel Aviv continues to win and narrow the gap, click on Bitton and Knikowski will grow and with him the attention of the rival defenders.Of course, can help them from the wing play, because Sharan Yeni and Ofir Davidzada are not exactly the defenders you go out with to invade.
Until now it was running, now comes the real test.
Dan Bitton (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
Let’s stick to the logical scenario whereby all three firsts win in the final round of the regular season.
If this happens, an interesting dynamic will be created on the part of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Over the past decade the team has become accustomed to reaching the decisive round from one of the first two places.
This meant that the game of the season for her came already in the second round of the playoffs.
When you finish Tuesday the script is slightly different.
You can see the first two shed blood to each other and maybe gain more momentum at their expense, you host the lead in the first meeting out of two and not the other way around.
As a rule, the level of pressure is not in a hurry to rise, at the moment the feeling at Maccabi Tel Aviv is that it is allowed to play in order to have fun and not to run for the title.
Such land may be very convenient for Krastich, who as usual will continue to do experiments, and who knows where he will get with them.
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Do not watch such a scenario.
Is he ready?
Bachar (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)
All this leads us to Maccabi Haifa.
It is doubtful whether Barak Bachar watched such a scenario, in which not one team but two are running after him in the race for the championship, which according to all predictions and logic should be his again.
It should be remembered that Bachar has successfully overcome the mid-season crisis twice in recent years - once in 2016/17, when Maccabi Tel Aviv already narrowed the gap from 10 points to 3, before it grew back, and of course last year, when ten consecutive Yellows wins Them to first place, but Maccabi Haifa stood the test of time.
The champion has been yawning hard lately, a long yawn that has lasted since the victory in Be'er Sheva.
She needs the shaking up, and there is no better shot of motivation for the coach and his players from Hapoel Beer Sheva waking up and from Maccabi Tel Aviv hot.
Last year Noble Omar shifted gears at exactly this time of season and the Greens won the championship.
This time Noble is injured, Neta Lavie has not yet gotten involved and the whole group looks drowsy, sometimes disparaging.
Last year and this year, Maccabi Haifa took two gorillas off their backs: a championship after a close battle and a victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Bachar is responsible for a glorious process of exorcism at a club that has been haunted for a decade.
Now his task is to complete the conquest of the target, fortifying Maccabi Haifa's status as the best team in Israel.
One championship is not enough, it may be perceived as accidental, especially if the Greens do lose the title.
The coach knows that, so do the players.
Now they understand that work must also be done.
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