Impossible Impossible: Premier League Premier League Selected Israel today

Tonight (Monday), the game will kick off with Teddy that will close the regular season, which will bring together Betar Jerusalem and Maccabi Haifa. Now, just before the end of two fascinating rounds and with the face towards the playoffs - it's time to conclude.

Actor: Noble Omar

The most dominant player in the league since Tony Wakma and Eran Zehavi.

Exceptional numbers in every offensive parameter, exceptional dominance and the transcendence of a real winner in quite a few moments this season.

18 goals, 9 assists, 65 key passes, 35 accurate (first in the league in both categories), 38 frame threats, 45 off-field threats (second in the league only for Dean David).

The numbers teach only part of the story.

In very many moments this noble season seems two levels above the league.

His natural decline and injury towards the end of the round are some of the reasons for reducing the gap of the top Maccabi Haifa.

Barak Bachar will hope to get him at his peak ahead of the playoffs, because if that does not happen, the championship is in danger.

Noble Omar.

Two levels above the league,

Discovery of the season: Bnei Lem

Many raised an eyebrow when Eyal Segal went retro and appointed the team's coach the legend of Maccabi Netanya, Bnei Lem (62), a quarter of a century after the last time he coached graduates.

Critics thought it was outdated, a net gimmick of enthusiasm and motivation, but reality proved otherwise.

Lem made Netanya a hit of the league, a team that every neutral fan loves, that plays modern and happy football, promotes young players and does not break.

Lem showed all the league coaches how to combine passion and tactics, how to connect a team to an audience and especially that sometimes you have to go a long way to be successful, but if that's what it takes to get a team like Maccabi Netanya this season - it's worth it.

Bnei Lem.

Made Maccabi Netanya a hit of the league, Photo: Alan Shiber

The goal: the team operation of Maccabi Netanya

There were many beautiful goals this season - the bomb of Noble Turner, the narrator of Eddie Gottlieb in Sami Ofer, the goal of Yaakov Barihon in Sakhnin and many more beautiful.

But one goal was a masterpiece of football.

57 minutes at Turner Stadium, 0: 0, Maccabi Netanya snatches a ball in the center of the field, 16 passes, 9 of them with a touch, ten players touch the ball, the 11th player makes a move that releases Aviv Avraham and it subdues Omri Glazer

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Coach: Mladen Krestajic

Maccabi Tel Aviv started the season with four losses in seven games, fired a coach, shuffled with a professional manager on the lines and looked completely lost. 15 points behind the leader - for the championship candidate upon entering the playoffs.

With an offensive approach, an open mind for players and tactical flexibility, he upgraded Maccabi to one of the most difficult teams to prepare for.

Since the era of Jordi Cruyff, in Krasteich's opinion in the top 3 of the foreign coaches who have been in the country, and even if he does not take a championship (it makes sense) - he has earned the contract for next season hugely.

Mladen Krestajic.

Took Maccabi shuffling and made it a candidate for the championship, Photo: Danny Maron

The Fall: The Judges Union

It is always said that errors of judgment are part of the game.

Sometimes they are in your favor, sometimes to your detriment, and in the end it balances out.

But this season, what's happening with the judges is on the verge of bizarre.

These are not only serious misjudgments and misuse of the screen judging system (VAR), but also the reactions of the union, which show that it is not connected and there is nothing in the criticism that will lead to improvement.

In all this darkness, I must mention Yigal Fried - who, although the mistakes were not missed (naturally, everyone is wrong), seems to be one of the only ones who understands the purpose of the event, lets the game run and makes decisions quickly and in the cleanest way.

Yigal Fried.

Not without mistakes, but a point of light in the darkness of judgment, Photo: Maor Elkelsi

Team of the season

At the gate:

Omri Glazer (Hapoel B'Shlosha) 

In defense:

Bogdan Planic (Maccabi Haifa), Miguel Vitor (Hapoel B'Shlosha), Karem Jaber (Maccabi Netanya), Ofir Davidzada (Maccabi Tel Aviv).

In the link:

Ali Muhammad (Maccabi Haifa), Gabi Kanikovsky (Maccabi Tel Aviv), Omri Gandelman (Maccabi Netanya).

In attack:

Omar Atzili and Dean David (Maccabi Haifa), Stifa Fritza (Maccabi Tel Aviv).

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