Terminator: The man who eliminated the race for the top playoff

The killing instinct of Georgia Juvanovic, the secret of the success of Netanya and Sakhnin and the panic that dominates Maccabi Petah Tikva.

Ron Amikam concludes Shabbat, including the (sad) day after breaking the Scout record in one round

Ron Amikam

13/03/2022

Sunday, March 13, 2022, 10:30 p.m.

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Summary: Hapoel Hadera - Maccabi Tel Aviv 2: 0 (Sport 1)

The

battle for the playoffs ended roughly where the battle for the championship started again, with the acquisition of Georgia Juvanovic.

In January 2013, Maccabi Tel Aviv was enthusiastic about the acquisition of Rada Fritza, but in the full recipe, there is nothing to compare.

Juvanovic is a killer, he kills games.

His departure from the spot for an offensive rebound after Tabachnik's knockout yesterday (Liani really knocked her room), was fatal.

It's a pure instinct killer.

He sometimes looks clumsy, and his ball control is basic, but none of these unnecessary actions matter to him.

Once you have to put your foot down and send the ball into the net, he is always first.

Juvanovic eliminated Hadera yesterday with two quick exits from the venue, effectively eliminating the race for the playoffs.

Hadera can be satisfied.

Practically she stayed in the league and did her thing - again, another season contrary to expectations - but if she looks at who is among the six teams that have reached the top playoffs, she will understand that this is not her place.

The six best teams reached the playoffs: the three with the biggest budget, Hapoel Tel Aviv which is a mix of players beyond the peak and players before the peak, and two teams that are the most vibrant in my opinion: Maccabi Netanya and Bnei Sakhnin, one of which will probably play in Europe next season (unless Hapoel Haifa will be amazed and win the cup).

To them could have been added the Kiryat Shmona of the Drapich era, but in the tension created there between the owner and the coach, it was difficult to produce enough points to reach the first six.

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Eliminate the playoffs.

Juvanovic (Photo: Danny Maron)

Yesterday evening decisively explained what was written above: Maccabi Tel Aviv and the entire top playoff were big on Hadera;

Netanya and Hapoel Tel Aviv waged a tremendous, lively and enjoyable battle, and justified their place;

Sakhnin - or Biram Kiel - proved that in the hunger, playoff or survival games, they prey on the cards.

The trick in advancing to the top playoffs is to use it to set new goals.

Sometimes teams advance to the playoffs and feel they have been promised a stay.

This was the case with Hadera in its first season in the 2019 Premier League, as it was with Ramat Hasharon, or Raanana.

The main thing is participation.

The feeling this season that the three least senior teams in the top playoffs will determine what the championship fight will look like, also mainly because they are competing (Hapoel Tel Aviv is currently out of the game, due to unresolved past debts to international institutions) for a ticket to Europe. 30 complete points.

Everything can be.

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Netanya played with 10 players as if it had 12 (Photo: Berni Ardov)

2.

Not many teams come back from a 2-0 deficit when they are with ten players, certainly not against a big club.

Hapoel Tel Aviv had magical moments yesterday in which Kobi Refuah cleverly used the speedy powers of Osher Davida and Omar Senor, two human planes, to dismantle Maccabi Netanya's relatively sparse defense.

This actually resulted in a lot of misses, but in quite a few moments it seemed that Hapoel was collapsing Maccabi Netanya.

Therefore, the return of Netanya is as magical as the whole season of Bnei Lem in the team, because even in a situation of 2: 0, with 10 players and against Hapoel Tel Aviv, there was a feeling that Netanya is able to return.

This is a feeling that is associated with really crazy teams: Betar Jerusalem of the mid-90s, Maccabi Haifa of Yossi Benyon, Maccabi Tel Aviv of Eran Zehavi, Hapoel Tel Aviv of the double season. Teams that can illustrate the phrase "they can win even with One leg and one hand tied. "

Netanya played with 10 players as usual, as if it had 12. The madness in which it attacks to press the opponent, snatch a ball and make outbursts with a minimum of dedication and through the lines, is the essence of the word "hunger".

I wonder what the workouts look like there, probably bet on an XL can at every minute of the workout.

This is what family groups look like, happy groups, without ego, and with peak competitiveness.

Bnei Lem is not the coach of the season, he is the magician of the season.

Why a magician?

Because it makes us want to watch an Israeli football team in the Premier League every week.

Thankfully, it's really magic.

The tension overcame Maccabi Petah Tikva (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)

3.

Maccabi Petah Tikva realized a very important detail yesterday: it is in big trouble.

Sakhnin knew even before the game that its chances of not reaching the top playoffs are almost nil, and when the news came from Netanya, about Yuvanovich's goals and a break into the Hapoel Hadera network, it was closed.

And when the news came about Ben Bitton and Eddie Gottlieb's two spectacular goals in Sami Ofer, the fourth place at the end of the regular season was also guaranteed.

And yet, despite the drop in tension, and even though it was not amazing, Sakhnin won the game, because it has a winery spirit this season that has not been in years, if at all.

The problem is that during all this time, Maccabi Petah Tikva has not been able to recreate what it has done in the last two rounds, has not produced a goal and, to be honest, has not created the feeling that it is capable of conquering.

The tension overwhelmed her, and all this frenetic race to the VAR screens to check any doubt that comes to mind, only adds to the tension.

Maccabi Petah Tikva looks panicked, the coach is transmitting panic, and so is the guard guard.

That's not how you stay in the league.

When it meets the large crowd of Betar Jerusalem or the loyal crowd of Hapoel Jerusalem, it may overwhelm it. Hope, for its internal protest, for the minority of the audience, and for all the pressure and terror that prevails there, is a strong candidate for decline.

It's time to say goodbye to the field in Kiryat Shmona (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

4.

82,684 spectators came in the previous round to the Premier League games, a new record, 5,000 more than the previous record, an average of almost 12 thousand spectators per game.

A collection of sold-out games in Sami Ofer and Bloomfield, the appointment of Aliniv Barda who filled Turner and the Renaissance of Maccabi Netanya.

The current cycle will be about a third of what it was in the previous cycle, and it was a much more tense cycle.

The story of the audience here is the conditions of the show: a hospitable stadium, a magical atmosphere, reasonable football - this is a basic condition.

If it's not Sami Ofer, Bloomfield, Teddy, Netanya or the Colony, it's not interesting.

Yesterday, 420 spectators arrived in Kiryat Shmona, less than those who arrived in Ramla on Tuesday for a game in the first division.

The surface was shocking, no matter what cloud broke near the game.

The drainage in Kiryat Shmona has been screwed up for years, this lot looks like it did in the 80s, and the two teams have almost no community behind them.

Izzy Shretzky

created an artificial lake in a city that, if already football, its heart belongs to Betar Jerusalem and Jackie Ben Zaken created an artificial island in a city that supports either Hapoel or Urbani.

In Ashdod you still see or hear about which master plan is being implemented, but in Kiryat Shmona?

The day Izzy Shretzky is not there, there will really be a cloudburst.

I stared at the gnawed surface, at a ball stuck on a puddle that had formed quite some time ago and had nowhere to seep, and I felt sorry for anyone who still dreams that something will come out of it.

The principal claims visibility, fights for it, fights for image, and licenses such plots.

Yes, it would be an injustice if Kiryat Shmona were to host the Galilee landscape, but only then would they understand there that the shovel should be allowed to do its thing.

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