A journey that began with a joke about being overweight and jokes about the amateur conduct of the Football Association, took a turn last night (Friday), a real love in the skies, with a great, even surprising victory in Israel, over a home team with a pretentious staff mostly playing in Italy and in good times.
But football is a fickle and unexpected game, and after a lag in the usual annoying minute (45 plus), came a second half in which Alon Hazan made obvious adjustments in the lineup that helped make a great, even brilliant makeover when Manor Solomon rises above them all.
We also saw this guy in his cooking against Iceland, and we still took into account that because of the war in Ukraine and the fact that he did not play for months, we would identify rust in him.
Dabour (left).
Received back from a cantor, Photo: Reuters
So not rust but a shimmering shine of a smart and brilliant actor who took advantage of two brilliant cookouts, once by Doron Leidner, and a second time by Ramzi Spori and Liel Abda who arranged for him a touchdown and a great makeover.
And here I go to the new coach of the team, Alon Hazan.
We are only at the beginning of the campaign under his guidance and should not go crazy, but Hazan is a guy who by nature does not go crazy, and already I know he is filing the game and thinking about Iceland next week.
cantor.
The head is already in Iceland,
His big advantage over Willy Rotensteiner, under whom he worked and learned, is the ability to be flexible and correct while playing.
Willie prepared the team for its games excellently, but froze while playing when he had to make a switch, move a player, make a strategic substitution.
Albania took their enthusiasm for control in the middle, with Israel stuck with three '6 players', which did not allow the potential of Avda and Salmon to materialize so much.
Hazan recognized this at the start of the half, brought up Ramzi Spori instead of Kartzev, Israel balanced in the center of the field, got on the wave and hurried to equalize with this sweeping talent Solomon.
This equality caused the Albanians to lose their temper with mistakes of lack of concentration, and Hazan realized that Winner Takes All.
He overcame the siege syndrome of national coaches for generations looking for a draw away, brought up a second striker, Monas Dabour, who was good and close to doing well 1: 3.
At these levels of this house, facing Iceland and Albania, we are pretty tidy from the middle forward, and worry is always gnawing at defensive nonsense.
They also happened yesterday, but we got out of them with minimal damage and with a forgiving VAR, but Miguel Vitor also got into his own scoring situations, like in his five goals in the league - and that's a significant added value that we have such a man.
Solomon and Abda.
Everyone helped Manor win the game, Photo: IP
Now for the flight to Reykjavik - the only excess cargo expected on the plane, is the adrenaline.
It's important not to fall apart there.
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