Maccabi Haifa exults: "Noble on another level".

Fox may open in the final

The king of goals and cooks on a short list that includes Ambape and Salah.

Mishpati will be absent from the cup final, Cohen in doubt and the third goalkeeper on alert.

Bachar is debating between Abu Fani and Jaber ahead of Tuesday

Shlomo Weiss

22/05/2022

Sunday, 22 May 2022, 08:47

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Summary: Maccabi Haifa - Maccabi Netanya 0: 4, including lifting the championship plate (Sport 1)

The week of Maccabi Haifa's championship celebrations culminated last night when the team lifted the plate after an impressive 0: 4 over Maccabi Netanya in the final round of the season.

Captain Neta Lavie, who has been absent for most of the season due to injury, decided to call on Charon Sari and San Menachem to pick up the plate with him, and about 27,000 spectators remained for a long time after the whistle in the stands and celebrated with the team.

In Haifa, they complimented the players who, despite the unimportance of the game, reached the peak of readiness and defeated Maccabi Netanya.

On Thursday, Barak Bachar demanded at the meeting to be highly motivated to play, and he did.

"We knew everyone would be in a frenzy not to send the fans back to celebrations mixed with disappointment," said a source in the team, "it was important to let the crowd celebrate after a convincing victory."

The professional team complimented the substitutes who excelled.

Lavi looks great like last season and the club named Mahmoud Jaber and Maor Levy as the outstanding players.

Jaber is expected to receive much wider credit next season, while Levy may ask to leave on loan, but it is unclear if the team will agree to that.

The team greatly appreciates the young midfielder and wants to see him stay, but on the other hand it is possible that in order to promote him in terms of playing minutes he will indeed be loaned out.

Mavis Chibuta and Gusdeway Donio were also praised and one of the players said: "Mavis has been insanely successful in recent weeks. We know what he is worth and I wish this game would give him confidence."

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Bachar stated: "It is important that they remember our football."

Maccabi Haifa celebrates championship (Photo: Berni Ardov)

A little less than a week ago, the Haifa players were on the bus on the way to the game against Bnei Sakhnin and the team testifies that a noble Omar passed between the players and drove them crazy towards what was supposed to be a protocol only.

In the end the game was canceled and Noble was perhaps most disappointed.

The connection was eager to reach a double-double of goals and cooks and secure the kingship in both.

Last night Noble came up in the second half and from the first moment it was clear he was looking for his 10th cook of the season.

Eventually he did so and also added a gate.

Along the way, Noble also became the first player since Uri Melmillian (in the early 90s) to finish as the top scorer and king of the cooks that season.

If that's not enough, Noble is among the only three players in Europe's 21 top leagues to finish as the top scorer and cooks together.

The other two are Killian Ambape and Muhammad Salah - with the latter still likely to lose the title in the final round in England.

"Omar is a star, period," said a source in Haifa. "We did not expect him to be so significant, but he is definitely on a completely different level."

Noble is expected to receive impressive offers but prefers to stay in Israel when in the coming days Haifa is expected to make an appointment with him to open his contract and remove the low release clause that the player holds.

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Noble (Photo: Berni Ardov)

After the championship celebrations, Maccabi Haifa is preparing for the state cup final on Tuesday.

The big question mark concerns the goalie's position.

Roi Mishpati was injured last night in the groin and is not expected to be fit, with Josh Cohen also in great doubt.

Cohen did record two training sessions over the weekend (but not with the team), and in Haifa they will try to prepare him for the finals.

However, there is still great doubt and if Cohen is unable to open, Roy Fox will stand between the posts.

Bachar is expected to bring Noble, Charon Shari and Dolev Haziza back to the squad, when there is a dispute between Muhammad Abu Fani and Mahmoud Jaber.

Even the question of David's law still hovers.

The player will make a decision during the day whether to play despite the mourning for his mother.

By the way, David was very moved by the gesture of the players after the first goal when they lifted his shirt and another very symbolic minute for him (21 as his shirt number).

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