The cart travels unstoppable: the unnecessary demon dance around Maccabi Haifa

Maccabi Haifa did exactly what a champion should do, so why did everyone decide that it did not deliver the goods?

From the light of Zechariah on the threshold of hallucinatory expectations, clichés that do not lie and prophecies of rage that may yet come true

From the light of Zechariah

18/03/2022

Friday, March 18, 2022, 2:00 p.m.

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Summary of Maccabi Haifa's 0: 1 victory over Betar Jerusalem (Sport 1)

This week we received a reminder that the most discouraging thing Israeli football has to offer is not the inability of the players, not the pragmatism that flooded every good part, not the refereeing that is mostly unsuitable for the third division and the fascinating meetings in front of 84 people between Hadera and Luzon.

There really is nothing more discouraging than the bar of expectations from Maccabi Haifa - a bar that is regularly set by the team's fans who have taken over parts of the media and sometimes turn it into exhausting gasoline from the big days in Kiryat Eliezer.

Maccabi Haifa defeated Betar Jerusalem 0-1 away this week. The Greens came to a difficult away game against a pressured bottom rival that needs points like breathable air, when they can already smell the sweat of Hapoel Beer Sheva and Maccabi Tel Aviv - who played before and won. If not Enough, Betar is coached by Yossi Aboksis, the man who knows how to take the desire out of everything related to football.

In this state of affairs, 0: 1 away - which reduced the gap from Beer Sheva to 4 points and from Maccabi Tel Aviv to 6 points - is an excellent result.

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Stress only does them injustice.

Barak Bachar (Photo: Berni Ardov)

The reasonable person goes to bed at two in the morning with the thought that even though the two jams are closer to Maccabi Haifa than they should be, Bachar's Greens did the job, and their run for the title continues as a series.

But then the morning comes, and it turns out that Maccabi Haifa is a team that does not deliver the goods, that this championship, even if you come - doubt they will remember, and by and large - that the first place is a kind of miracle, which exists only because the other teams, other than Maccabi Haifa, are nothing. , More or less.

And the truth is that this very disproportionate pressure bracket, which, as mentioned - was determined mainly by Maccabi Haifa fans who work in the media and dictate public opinion, does injustice only to Maccabi Haifa.

Because with all due respect, winning 0: 1 in a difficult away game against such an opponent, with unspectacular and unconvincing ability - is exactly what a champion does.

That's the whole idea.

And a win of this kind does not negate the disassembly and reassembly that the Greens have done to the league throughout most of the season.

True, the question can be asked - what are they worth without a noble?

The answer, apparently: still in first place, still a gap of more than a game from Be'er Sheva and more than 2 from Maccabi Tel Aviv (what to do, when you break up the league regularly, you enjoy a crazy goal difference).

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Will the group exceed their strange expectation?

Maccabi Haifa fans (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

Criticism of Maccabi Haifa has long been a matter of heaven.

And yet, it's worth keeping that mob for more justified moments, for example - if the Greens manage to lose the championship (pretty sure, we have to admit) - it would be justified to stick all possible criticism halves in them.

But it is unlikely to get into a team that leads the league for half a year, and cancel with such ease the work of a coach and players.

And it does not matter that without a noble Omar Maccabi Haifa looks like Ashdod in green (and with titles!).

In the end, the whole idea of ​​a league is 30 and something games that reduce the power of chance and significantly increase the weight that proper work, perseverance, ability and meeting goals have.

And as Sages have said every Saturday in "Songs and Gates" for decades: The table does not lie. And in the present case, the table tells one story, quite clear and one that is difficult to dispute.

If Maccabi Haifa manages to exceed the strange expectation of its fans in the media (and also in the stands) - to defeat each team already in the half, and Barak Bachar will continue to make it clear to his guys what to do, sometimes they also end in a draw and 0: 1. 5 (This is also a beloved "songs and goals" cliché) - the Greens will celebrate a championship at the end of the season.

But if they start listening to the street and the media, we would not be surprised if at the end the prophecies of rage come true and create a reality where the championship travels south of the Carmel.

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