Beautiful, not perfect: This is not the best Maccabi Haifa in history

Despite the chance to win a quadruple, it does not mention the 95 'and 03' versions.

And also: Cherry mentions Buzaglo, the double penalty for Hapoel Haifa fans, Turgeman should finish the season.

Summary of the Haifa derby in the cup

Ron Amikam

20/04/2022

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 10:15 p.m.

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State Cup Semi-Final Summary: Maccabi Haifa - Hapoel Haifa 0: 2 (Sport 1)

The Haifa derby was played last night (Tuesday) in Bloomfield in front of less than 24,000 people, about 80 percent of the stadium's capacity, just because Hapoel Haifa insisted on not holding it with Sami Ofer for the simple reason that she does not feel at home there.

It did not change the fact that even at Bloomfield she did not feel at home - despite a stunning display of encouragement and a fair amount of fans - and even though Bloomfield did not close the huge gap between the two clubs this season either.

Unnecessary and petty insistence that bothered thousands of red fans to get off at a train station near the Hatikva neighborhood, in the east of the city, to reach the stadium on foot in the west of the city.

There are enough Maccabi Haifa fans in the center to fill Bloomfield.

The punishment was for Hapoel Haifa fans - both to wander and to kidnap.

Truth be told, if it weren't for Ohad Levita (one of those who prevented Maccabi Haifa from winning the championship in 2002/3, when he was a teenager), the result would have been double and multiplied.

Maccabi Haifa is good by any standard from Hapoel Haifa, and this also stood out when Hapoel played with 11 players, because it did not try to be an opponent at all.

Her dismissal, at such an advanced stage in the Cup, is a huge professional failure.

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Punished twice.

Hapoel Haifa fans (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

2. The one who added guilt to a crime to Hapoel Haifa's performance was Alon Turgeman, who opened the season spectacularly with nine goals in nine games, was injured and has not recovered since.

Instead of Hapoel Haifa fans, I was very offended by Turgeman's behavior.

His offense was ugly.

It was not a ball slide, because he did not slide a ball, but inserting the corks into the twin muscle could still have eliminated San Menachem's career.

Ruben Raios graduates sat on the field enough to understand the intensity of the offense.

Then came the ugly onslaught on the Leiba era.

He saw an offense of yellow, the VAR saw the truth.

Those urges should have ended in a few yellows if not more, but Leiba gave up, perhaps rightly so, so as not to steal the show from an audience-saturated and important game.

But the highlight was tearing the shirt on the way to the locker room.

Leave the melodramatics in a dime.

What is a shirt rip?

It's the club uniform, it's the club logo, it's the colors.

If I'm Hapoel Haifa - Alon Turgeman finished the season yesterday and maybe beyond.

Added sin to crime.

Alon Turgeman (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

3. Maccabi Haifa can win a quadruple (four titles) this season, an unprecedented event, and it is still possible that in the parade of the biggest teams in the club's history - not to mention Israeli football - it will not be placed above Maccabi Haifa of the 2002/3 or 1994/5 season, which is not Finished as champions.

Maccabi Haifa is better than the rest in several respects, and still the comparison to "everything else" is unnecessary.

"Everything else" is a package of teams that are at a crossroads, or playing pretentious or cowardly football, but the gap is so huge - at the level of the game itself - that it's even a big compliment to win four titles in a season where the team is knocked out by Kiryat in the first round of the Champions League. In the Faroe Islands in the second early round of the Conference League.

If the league had been a bit stronger, if the rivals had not prevented their crowd disgust for the coach who opened the season there and kept a line and way, it is possible that all the compliments from Haifa would have received the appropriate proportions.

Maccabi Haifa plays well, it has clutch players, but it is not perfect, and far from being polished.

She wins like this because of the character of coach Barak Bachar, who insists on his doctrine, does not get sick of changes, does not make social exchanges and is hungry for degrees.

So we said, this is not the best Maccabi Haifa in history, not even the fourth,

Not the best Maccabi Haifa in history.

The Greens celebrate last night (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

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4. As in the case of Alon Turgeman, the return of a noble Omar from the injury did not bring that noble Omar back to Maccabi Haifa.

Yes, his operation and cooking for Charon Cherry in the second gate were great, but Noble, by and large, is unable to do the things he did before he was injured.

It happens, it's natural, it's supposed to disappear next season.

The thing is, a nobleman can be calm, because Charon Cherry has taken his place.

To tell the truth, Cherry reminds me of Maor Buzaglo in the first two championship seasons of Hapoel Beer Sheva.

It makes great use of all parts of the foot to produce deadly lifts or kicks.

Add to that the look and style - and you've got Buzaglo.

And it has to be said that Buzaglo was one of the players of the last generation.

Sherry's advantage is that Yes will not make a docu-reality series out of him and his family, and then Barak Bachar will be able to enjoy it for a long time to come.

Reminiscent of Buzaglo.

Charon Sherry (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

5. This season of Elisha Levy is not impressive, to say the least.

He had a good staff of veteran and experienced players, some of them significant players in our football, and he is deep in the lower and non-competitive playoffs in the Cup semi-finals, a position his team reached after passing three teams from the second division, two of them on penalties.

Elisha Levy is a clear example of the fact that the Israeli team is a cemetery for coaches.

If you get to it too early in your career, you have a hard time getting up after it.

Dovid Schweizer was exceptional and after the team he won two championships and built two glorious teams, but Dovid was exceptional in every parameter.

Elisha did not.

Reaching after a team for teams like Maccabi Petah Tikva, Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Haifa, which are light years away from the big four, and in some of them not even finishing a full season - is simply unnecessary.

I am sure that Elisha can contribute a lot of his knowledge and experience in professional management positions in reputable clubs that have not set him an achievement threshold.

This shuffle makes our stomach contract.

Disrespectful.

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