As much as the result is intoxicating, it may lie: the summary of Maccabi Haifa's great victory

The only way for the Greens to preserve qualities that usually characterize mid-December teams, will be to continue striving for perfection.

One of the greatest teams in the history of the club can secure its place in its own private hall of fame, if Barak Becher succeeds in his biggest test: managing the staff.

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Ron Amikam

04/08/2022

Thursday, 04 August 2022, 09:00

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Summary: Maccabi Haifa - Apollon Limassol 0:4 (Sport1)

In the 1981/2 season, Maccabi Netanya opened the season with two sixes in two weeks: 0:6 against Maccabi Tel Aviv and 1:6 against Beitar Jerusalem. They called it "the season of the sixes". Intoxicating, so are the two fourths of Maccabi Haifa in a week against the faithful of Zeus.

But as intoxicating as the result is, it may lie.

Maccabi Haifa looked for routes in the Cypriot thicket yesterday for nearly half an hour.

Apollon was well prepared, quite easily preventing Haifa from running even a simple combo game.

Look, of course, who controls the game and the preparation quickly became defensive, especially when Haifa did begin to penetrate the defensive lines - with Dean David's invalid goal, as in Haziza's kidnapping that ended in a selfish action - but it is not certain that the game would have developed as it did, if Haziza's cross ball had not hit the brake The Frenchman passed behind the back of the goalkeeper Alexander Jovanovic.

Sometimes, finding the way to glory is random, because from here on it was an easy 0:7 game, and the result is both intoxicating and deceiving - Haifa was ultimately worth more than 0:4.

What caused the collapse of Apollo?

It seems mostly panic.

Where she should have opened up and found space in the transition attacks, she was unable to get to such attacks at all.

Add to that pre-season playing ability and humidity flooding the lungs.

Haifa - to its credit - advanced as the opponent collapsed.

This is the essence of the result.

To close the "Season of Sixes" story, let's just mention that Tania did not win the championship that season, but the season after, because she developed an expertise to kick the bucket.

Haifa has dramatic episodes in its history that are labeled under the bookmarks 1994/5 and 2002/3, which indicate that this also happened to it.

Therefore, the only way to preserve such quality of play and such large gaps between it and European rivals at such stages, is not to think that everything is perfect, but to continue striving for perfection.

facing a big task.

Bachar (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)

It's just that so far it's really perfect, because along with his selfish play, Dolev Haziza dismantled a defense of three defenders yesterday - two French and one Serbian - who played in football countries like Spain and France, thanks in large part to the fact that he took advantage of Apollon's soft right wing, where Hanebach, Andreas Panayiotou was standing .

Up until the first goal, he managed to prevent Pierre Curnot from walking him on the wing with help from the midfield and the attack, but that's where it ended, because Haziza turned between the legs and, together with Curnot, knocked down Apollon's defense from its most reinforced wing.

To the wonderful game of Haziza and the two defenders, the back link of Maccabi Haifa should be added.

Much has been said about the fact that Netta Lavi's injury in the opening game against Kyrat last season, in the Champions qualifiers, completely disrupted the goals of the European season of the champion.

Lavi gives Ali Muhammad the opportunity to display his proven abilities, because he covers behind his dribbles and his forays from the second line.

Ali Muhammad scored the first double of his career yesterday, but the level of execution - a clean kick and a powerful strike - prove that if someone can be trusted by his side, he is capable of it.

The outrage of Mohamed Abu Fani, a national team midfielder, that he gets crumbs, seems a little incomprehensible.

If Abu Fani goes to Europe and plays in a team at the level of Maccabi Haifa, there is a situation where he will be more disgruntled, because they don't speak Hebrew on the bench there either.

The ability of bench players to understand their place is one of the keys to dizzying success.

In this regard, Barak Bacher has a lot of work to do, maybe even more than improving his players.

Yesterday, August 3,

Two and a half weeks before the start of the season, Maccabi Haifa looked in mid-December form.

All that's left for Bacher is to manage a roster, and make every player hungry for the next game.

In the endless sequence of compliments that Haifa receives under this keyboard and under keyboards throughout Europe, we should dwell again on Franzi Piero.

It has an impossible combination of heavy traffic and a crazy exit from the place with a lot of power.

He is the dream of every coach who is looking for "player 9" candles, like in the books.

In Ali Muhammad's first goal, he made a pass to the stopper, without touching him, only because the stopper was busy finding space on the wide bump that Piero caught, and in the goal he scored he did what he did last week - stepped ahead of his keeper and hit in.

Until now, Piero has faced European brakes, very soon he will also face Israeli brakes, who, as you remember, usually have trouble finding their place against Nafilim.

Think how the Austrian Marko Arnautovic looks against the brakemen of the Israeli national team, and imagine what Piero will do to ordinary brakemen.

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An impossible combination of heavy traffic and a crazy exit from the place with a lot of power.

Piero (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)

Maccabi Haifa are satisfied that they secured a place in the group stage of the European League, a place from which Israeli teams in the past have also moved on.

There is no reason for Maccabi Haifa not to think about a place in the group stage of the Champions League and repeating its performance there in the 2002/3 season.

The 0:5 of Red Star Belgrade last night is a lie.

They played against Pyunik Yerevan, a team that opened the season in Armenia with a home loss in the derby, lost their top scorer who moved to a team in Kazakhstan, and largely managed to get past the Romanian Cluj thanks to a victory in penalties after equalizing goals at the end of the 90 minutes and at the end of the 120 minutes.

In the terms of the stand Pionik is a "bin group".

The number of goals scored by Red Star from the start of the season should also be taken in proportion: 22 goals in 5 games, as 20 goals were scored in four home games.

So at Markana they are very good, but Maccabi Haifa in Sami Ofer the Goes, looks just as scary, certainly more than the Red Star in an away game.

Add to that the fact that the Red Star plays in a league weaker than even the Premier League, in which it achieved a 90 percent success rate last season and finished with a difference of two points from Partizan Belgrade, but 40 points from the third ranked team.

When the Red Star meets Maccabi Haifa in two weeks, after a series of cat and mouse games, it will look completely different.

Maccabi Haifa has the opportunity to enshrine the current team in its own private hall of fame.

This is surely one of the best teams of Maccabi Haifa of all time, with a perfect combination of players of color, and equally scary bench players.

Currently, it appears that Barak Becher will have no difficulty manipulating the squad until the World Cup in the grueling series of league games and home stages in Europe, even in case of injuries.

Corno, Piero and Ali Muhammad have excellent replacements - which will allow him to struggle less with the participation of six foreigners in the game - Sondgren, Palanich and Sherry a little less.

Haifa needs to use as much as possible its potential in Europe until the start of the season, because from the moment it visits Doha in the first round of the Premier League, this convenient agenda will go wrong for it.

The only way to avoid stumbling in unexpected places is to manage a staff correctly, use a wide rotation, and not stutter mentally.

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