1000 ways to die: for the ongoing trauma of Hapoel Tel Aviv
With a goal ratio of 6:36 in eight years, the Tel Aviv derby has long since lost its equality, with Hapoel Tel Aviv finding a different cruel way each time to get off the field in tears.
David Rosenthal sums up a strange game and once again understands how important Avi Rikan is to Maccabi Tel Aviv
David Rosenthal
26/04/2022
Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 10:02
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The 0: 5 summary of Maccabi Tel Aviv over Hapoel Tel Aviv (Sport 1)
Amazing how 34 minutes can change the impression of an entire season, or at least of the last month.
Until the 56th minute (that of the first or second half, you choose) last night in Bloomfield, Maccabi Tel Aviv had a terrible playoff on its scale.
Hapoel Tel Aviv had a very good playoff, especially in relation to expectations from it.
Then came the dismissal of Shai Elias and the quintet, causing the yellow fans to forget the April fiasco in general and the semifinals in particular, and the Reds to flock in a protest convoy to the Khodorov complex.
Football is such a fluid business.
Until yesterday, Kobi Refuah was the favorite son of the residents of Gate 5, a kind of messiah who came to upgrade in terms of results and style of play after the lack of connection to Nir Klinger.
To the credit of Medicine it can be said that he lived up to expectations.
Hapoel Tel Aviv played well, achieved good results and also won.
In the previous derby she managed to embarrass Maccabi Tel Aviv, and if not for the terrible misses on the one hand and the shoe tip of Georgia Juvanovic on the other, she would also have come down from it a winner, for the first time since 2014. Even last night it seemed at first that the story went in her direction Elias's dismissal, and suddenly everything falls apart.
Entire season achievements have been deleted.
Hapoel Tel Aviv suddenly returned to being a carpet.
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Every season they snatch, each time it comes in the second half.
Hapoel Tel Aviv players after last night's derby (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
Since that red victory, 1: 3 exactly today eight years ago, the two teams have met 17 times.
Maccabi won 11 of the meetings.
Of those 11 wins she defeated (0: 3 or more) six times.
The goal ratio is 6:36.
These are illogical numbers at all, and they paint a much bigger picture than a "mere" random 0: 5 defeat.
This is a disintegration that can characterize (in recent years) only Hapoel Tel Aviv and only in derby games.
In 2019/20 she was defeated 3: 0, last year 4: 0 and last night 5: 0.
All of the goals in those three games were scored in the second half, most of them in short periods of time.
This defeat is the price of the trauma, even of the previous game.
As in the first season of the series "Russian Doll", she finds each time a stranger and crueler way to die.
Which is better, to get a goal in extra time after your excellent game, or to snatch a disgraceful 5: 0?
Just "choose the poison," as the Americans say.
Hapoel Tel Aviv can blame Shmuelevich for not putting a red card to Glazer and "warming up" the game, but it seems that no matter what happens, she will find a way to get off the mourning grass.
More on Walla!
Kobi Refuah: "The dismissal was irresponsible, it will not be on the agenda"
Who do you come to with complaints?
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Less than a month to repair.
Medicine (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
Never before has control of the city been so one-sided.
The Tel Aviv derby went through an unwelcome process - it became the Haifa derby, the one where the winning identity is known even before the teams go on the field, and even there the verb manages to occasionally steal victories.
Hapoel Tel Aviv has reached a historic low point, with a decade tarnishing the proud heritage of a glorious club, which next year will celebrate its 100th anniversary.
Two months after the most famous 0: 5 of the three, that of 1969/70, Shia Feigenbaum scored a double and Hapoel won 1: 2.
Medicine and his players have less than a month to do Shia and return the honor to the red side of the city.
Deserves fans of this team a little more.
Is it possible?
This is another question.
The bullet boy as an example
"It was a strange game," a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan wrote to me this morning, "How did it turn from 'How bad are we' to a goal every five minutes for half an hour?"
The truth is that this is the essence of Krasteich's Maccabi Tel Aviv - a team that you just do not know how to digest, a coach that you do not know how to eat.
How symbolic was the extremity between the rage and his warm apology to the amiable bullet boy.
Maccabi Tel Aviv is a capricious team, like its coach.
And now, if you're in Goldhaar's hat, go decide if he should continue.
Watch Mladen Krastic apologize and kiss the ball carrier (Sport1)
Before the start of the season, Avi Rikan and Itai Schechter did not have contracts.
As free agents they were looking for a team.
Schechter signed with Hapoel Beer Sheva, Rikan waited.
There was an
offer from Betar Jerusalem, but he was too smart to answer it in the affirmative. The "German" was always a calculated type. So he waited and finally stayed at Maccabi Tel Aviv.
, But the whole team shuffled and he disappeared, little to play, was not a factor. Illustrate how important it is for such a player to be part of the locker room.Likan, 34, has an option for another season.If Maccabi Tel Aviv has a better team next season, he may be able to contribute a little more than a show in one random game.
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