Plaster and his name Zahavi: Maccabi Tel Aviv is still a step behind Maccabi Haifa and Be'er Sheva

The quick dependence that Maccabi Tel Aviv has developed on the tireless scorer is mainly proof that it will be less competitive in the championship fight than we thought.

Tonight's summary of the European delegations, including the traffic jam that may create a breakthrough generation and the necessary competition between Stile Davidovich and Awat in the national team

Ron Amikam

12/08/2022

Friday, August 12, 2022, 11:00 a.m

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Summary: Aris Thessaloniki - Maccabi Tel Aviv 1:2 (Sport1)

1.

Let it be said right away, as Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Aris Thessaloniki 2:3, it could have lost.

The one who made the difference in the results is Eran Zahavi, what matters is what will be done there in the summer, beyond bringing in Nir Biton (he is not a stopper, even if he is good as a stopper) and Eran Zahavi.

After all, the 0:2 victory at home was more significant than the 0:1, certainly psychologically, and the equalizer yesterday (Thursday) was critical, so Zahavi's two goals, in so few minutes of play, are not only the proof of his victory - we We know - but the proof that Maccabi Tel Aviv will have a very hard time getting past Nice in the next stage, but more than that: it is less competitive for the championship fight than we thought.

But it must be emphasized - at this stage.

Maccabi has a problem with the status of the foreigners, some of them are not of high quality to the level that Maccabi Tel Aviv aspires to and the football that Ivitch wants to produce.

The depth of the Israeli squad is also not high enough quality.

Yesterday's compliments for the defense, which came from within the club, are a bit puzzling.

The penalty was mainly due to confusion in the center of the defense, the second goal is Saborit's (before his offensive quality, it is important to remember that he is a defender/brake), and also the one-on-one that saved after Gray went deep or the kick from an offensive rebound that went near the crossbar, all these only show that Maccabi Tel Aviv not only lost a game yesterday, it was also not far from losing the advantage from the first game.

In summing up the team's four games in the Conference League so far, Maccabi won only two games, scored 6 goals - an average of one and a half goals - and a third of the goals were by a 35-year-old substitute player. Add the Toto Cup game against Maccabi Netanya, that's an average of 1.2 goals per game.

In other words, the quality required from Maccabi Tel Aviv, certainly after the return of Vladan Ivitch, still does not exist.

It will come, but the question is not only whether it will be enough, but whether it will not be too late.

Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Beer Sheva are at this stage one step ahead of Maccabi Tel Aviv.

what did you do in the summer

Not much, it turns out.

Zahavi celebrates (photo: official website, Maccabi Tel Aviv)

Maccabi Tel Aviv aims to bring home Eli Dessa and Dor Peretz and is ready to pay a lot of money for it, otherwise these two would have already found another European option, but the financial lure and the presence of Zahavi and Ivic are doing their part.

Still, if the bringing of Dessa is required in view of Geraldesh's never-ending paleness, it is not clear to me what Dor Peretz will add to Maccabi's midfield traffic jam.

I mean, there is no doubt at all that on a good day, Peretz is a player above the level of Maccabi Tel Aviv's back link, but Glazer, Van Overeem, Golsa, Peretz and even Ricken, can end up occupying only two positions, unless they give up wings or a creative link player Like Kanikowski.

I don't know what competition or rotation will help the team stabilize and produce good football.

It is enough to see that there is already a bottleneck in the attack: Ivić has avoided for the second game in a row to place Zahavi next to Jovanović - this replaces it - whatever the case may be, if the thought arises in the Serbian captain's mind that the two cannot play together. Then, what a waste it would be To put one of them on the bench, and worse than that: what a waste it would be to place one of them under the striker or on the wing. The romance and the lust of the subscribers created a situation - both in the case of Peretz and in the case of Zahavi - of an imbalance in the squad. This traffic jam is dangerous for the structure.

And another word about Eran Zahavi, the man and the phenomenon, in honor of his 36th goal in a European framework. I don't remember even one of his goals in Eindhoven that came as a result of movement from deep, and a one-on-one situation, like in the good old days before leaving for China. For that alone it was worth it for him to come back. If Kanikowski continues to understand That way, the over-under of 15 goals in the Premier League, which commentators are starting to talk about in the dark, will look ridiculous.

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Dor Peretz (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)

2.

Hapoel Beer Sheva finishes four games in Europe with 100 percent success.

As the team that missed the promotion to the group stage against Anorthosis last season, this is an upgrade.

Beer Sheva is currently a more obvious candidate for promotion to the group stage than Maccabi Tel Aviv (the wonders of the draw: Nice is not ranked, Craiova is), but not only because of the strength of the opponents, but because Beer Sheva looks more like a team.

You can't even say that she doesn't have clutch players like Piero in Maccabi Haifa or Eran Zahavi in ​​Maccabi Tel Aviv, when Tomer Hamed isn't shared even for a minute, and Rotem Hatuel gives extras in every game, even from the bench.

Beer Sheva has everything, and is still looking for reinforcements in attack.

Yesterday, they scored two goals in stationary situations where Spuri was looking for Vitor, which is no upgrade from Roni Levy's team, but even though Logano played like someone who has nothing to lose and like a team from the Basel league, Beer Sheva overcame two penalties ruled against them, and scored three goals .

This power is what she lacked last season with Roni Levy: what will really put her in a competitive position against Maccabi Haifa.

Beer Sheva has been upgraded, it is on a constant trend of improvement, it is completely in the competition, even if they say that it will only closely accompany the battle between the Maccabees.

This is clearly not true.

Beer Sheva can take a championship this season, it just needs the synergy between all parts of the team, between the lineup and the bench, between the coach and his staff, to be at the top.

It is very difficult today in Israel - even in two frameworks - to manage a deep squad in such a competition.

And Eliniv Breda has the least coaching experience but the most experience as a player.

If he finds the equal valley and of course leaves his ego (which he doesn't have) at home, the sky is the limit here.

This season she has the strength to face Maccabi Haifa.

Beer Sheva is celebrating (Photo: Danny Maron)

Last sentence about Omri Glazer.

This keyboard grinned when Glazer got the gloves of Maccabi Haifa and then for a short period of time the national team.

Time to stop laughing.

Omri Glazer is there, totally there.

He is currently one of the two best goalkeepers in Israeli football, and next month, when Alon Hazan and Guy Luzon, will have to determine which of the players of the young team will be sacrificed on the altar of the national team at the expense of the playoffs against Ireland, Omri Glazer will solve the goalkeeper problem, which will arise due to the abilities of Daniel Peretz.

With all due respect to Ofir Marciano who did not play this season, Glazer should be ahead of him in the goal for the national team.

More than that, Glazer and Peretz can give us a fight for the vest for many years, like Nir Davidovich and Dodo Avatt gave us.

I don't know where it will take us, but it's good that there is finally competition for a problematic position in Israeli football.

Before Marciano, in competition with Daniel Peretz.

Omri Glazer (Photo: Danny Maron)

3. Maccabi Tel Aviv's fight with Nice will not be decided on a purchase that will arrive this week (Peretz and Dessa), or arrived in the last few weeks (Ramsey and Shmeichel), but on the crowd.

Maybe because of the corona virus or maybe not because of it, Nice's average audience is 16 thousand spectators in a home game, and Allianz Riviera has room for 36 thousand people.

That is, not only because it is an Israeli team that is not attractive in the inflated concepts of the French citizen, but because Nice does not generate attractiveness on its own, it is far from filling its home stadium.

Maccabi Tel Aviv is not far from that - it can fulfill its role.

The strengths of the crowd at home and away will determine a lot about the chances.

First, because there is a deterrent.

Maccabi had a very hard time playing against a fanatical home crowd yesterday.

Nice will understand the difference between an away game at Moshava Stadium in Garbage Time of the group stage against Hapoel Beer Sheva, and a game at Bloomfield Goes next Thursday.

Beyond that, the crowd adds energy, certainly to Eran Zahavi who will probably start this time in the lineup.

Maccabi Tel Aviv previously knocked out Bordeaux with Zahavi, they can knock out Nice as well, as far-fetched as it sounds here and there.

As I recall, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem had promising campaigns in the past until they ran into the final stage of the qualifiers in Saint-Etienne. The French teams are supposed to be in the home stages of Kikuyan factories, Maccabi and Zebi can devour their cards.

Just one sentence on the margins of Nice's squad: considering the connection Circumstantial and alarming between Aron Ramsey's goals and the deaths of celebrities (the latest of which, Olivia Newton John, just this week), Maccabi Tel Aviv will also have a national security mission here.

The atmosphere at the Riviera will be much friendlier to Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Nice fans (Photo: GettyImages, Tnani Badreddine ATPImages)

Beer Sheva will have a simpler task.

Craiova is having a hard time in away games, certainly this season.

Against her Albanian opponent in the second round, she ended in a draw, against Ukrainian Zuria - in a game in exile in Poland - she lost.

Romanian football and the Romanian teams are in constant decline and compared to the rise of Israeli football in recent months, it seems clear who is the favorite.

Three Israeli teams in the group stage - the three teams that will compete for the championship in Israel - this is a celebration for its own sake.

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