Sean Weissman is the solution: a summary of the Israeli team's draw

In his current form, the Valladolid striker is better than Dabour and if he opens at his expense, it will also help lower the flames in the boiling cut.

Ron Amikam concludes the 2: 2 against Iceland with a request to try another goalkeeper and a good word for the way the Israeli team played

Ron Amikam

03/06/2022

Friday, 03 June 2022, 09:15

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Summary of Israel's 2: 2 home win against Iceland (Sport 1)

In the bottom

line, we conceded two goals at home, and won a draw against a team we should have won, a draw that could prevent us from qualifying for the first division in the League of Nations, which would be similar to qualifying our tennis team for the 2009 Davis Cup semifinals.

Still, one begins to recognize a slight, but really slight, change in perception.

The Israeli team played yesterday to win, failed to take advantage of a significant advantage between its attack and the Icelandic defense, but did not stop for a moment striving for the goal, even at the cost of ignorance in the defense.

There was something in her game that is Shlomo Sharfi (under the influence of garlic) who in his view claimed - even if he did not say so explicitly - that 3: 4 is always better than 0: 1, even if it is the same result.

Doron Leidner is an outstanding offensive defender - looks even better than Taleb Twataha - but a squad is lacking in defense.

Yesterday, Eli Desa also joined him in creating the ignorance, but let's say that it was an unsuccessful day for Desa, who is nevertheless a respected defender in the Netherlands and also plays there, which is generally important for an Israeli defensive player.

The obvious lack of identity between the three connections, who the ax is, who makes a game and where the box-to-box was lost, also left areas to which the Icelanders could have entered.

Only the entry of Mahmoud Jaber, in fact, changed the rules of the game a bit.

Until then we seemed to be multi-carpenters, despite the goal in the game - to play offensively to enjoy the crowd and also to win - and a more successful team can be found, for example if players with ball control or delivery ability are brought in, or players who have played this season.

Where are the brakes here?

They were the least problematic in the team's defensive game and made the fewest mistakes, if any.

Miguel Vitor is the least problematic brake he has played for the team in recent years, but it is still not the brake that will change our lives forever.

Anyway, the problem was behind them, in the goalkeeper position.

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It's time to try Glazer (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

No team would have preferred a local goalkeeper over a goalkeeper who reached the final of a European factory this year, but the question is what the price is.

Ophir Marciano dropped a ball that led to the first goal yesterday and also in the second goal the ball passed right next to his body, and he did not respond.

The main problem was even earlier.

After the goal of the justified advantage of the team and after almost winning again, Iceland returned to the game and it started with a not strong elevation that Marciano preferred not to go out to and remained stuck on the goal line.

Whoever got to the ball, but barely, was Miguel Vitor who went far to the corner.

Then came another boost that the brake barely pulled away and the momentum on the pitch changed and eventually led to the equalizer.

A goalkeeper, even before he performs his job and sometimes beyond, is the security sensor.

If the goalkeeper is hesitant, makes simple mistakes and seems insecure, his defense will be like that too.

She will be required to keep him instead of relying on him and the whole game plan will be lost.

It also conveys to the opponent that one can dare that the opponent is groggy, vulnerable, failing in simple actions.

One can marvel at his saves - an animal instinct - but what is it worth if the simple actions produce goals?

In the end it offsets.

Is there a reserve?

It's hard to say, but if we do not try to check, how will we know?

The League of Nations games came as a substitute for the friendly games, and are actually games in which new players are run.

Only in Israel have the League of Nations become a platform for another chance to reach a great enterprise.

Already in the upcoming game against Albania, Alon Hazan should try Omri Glazer, the goalkeeper of the season in the Premier League, because new things must be tried all the time until something stable is established.

They may eventually discover that there is nothing about Marciano, but every stone must be turned to produce a winning composition, even in this way.

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As they both look, Weissman is worth the car before Dabour (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

2.

It seems that Sean Weissman solved yesterday with his energetic presence the difficult problem that Mons Dabour creates for the Israeli team, not just for the national coach.

Dabour put the team captain - certainly himself - in serious trouble in his statement a year ago at the start of Operation Wall Guard.

His conversations with the players, with the members of the association, with the coach will not help.

It is no longer certain that clarification or public apology will help.

There is an audience that will not forgive Dabour for his remarks, and there is also an audience that comes specifically to express it to his ears.

At the end the player functions less well, lacks energy, and when he is replaced, tears the tapes that wrap them, throws them away and spits.

His disgust is seen, of the audience heard.

This produces unresolved antagonism.

No professional coach or manager, certainly the chairman of an association that also represents the Arab sector, will take on Dabour's screening. Even if it seems delusional to whistle contempt for the Israeli national team player and others cheer. Worth the team squad, before Dabour, certainly with talented wingers like Manor Solomon, Liel Abda or Omar Atzili. Where will we put Eran Zehavi into all this talent?

The excitement in the anthem bought, the exchanges a little less.

Cantor (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

3.

There are other people who ask "what is the combine", to understand how Alon Hazan became a national team coach without any resume as a team coach.

Well, there is no combo.

Yesterday we saw a happy, creative team that is constantly attacking, producing and striving for victory.

Iceland, which is in awful shape, was in 2016 at the Euros and at the last World Cup.

We were nothing.

So why Hazan?

Because a team coach and a team coach are two separate entities.

A team coach meets his trainees six times a week, and a team coach meets them an average of six times in two months.

A national team coach does not have to teach them football - that is what they bring from the teams - but to select the right players for the task, manage them, connect them and put emphasis in them.

In some of the teams - even the biggest ones - in the world, there are no great team coaches.

Gareth Southgate or Yogi Lev is one example.

Emanuel Sheffer, who finished a season with the team only once in his career and in fact barely coached teams, brought the Israeli team to the Olympics and the World Cup.

Sheffer was trained in the young teams and so was Hazan.

Hazan's personality, his approach to acting, his excitement in the anthem, bought me.

Exchange management a little less (Glazer's unnecessary entry, Weissman and Jaber's late entry).

Of course, he will be judged at the end of the test of the result, and especially what he will do from March 23 in the Euro qualifiers.

Let's leave the "why" question

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