Caution, spoiler: the forecast for the upcoming season in the Premier League
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What is the biggest and most important resource in Beitar Jerusalem? (hint: not the crowd) and is the current Maccabi Haifa on its way to becoming one of the biggest in history? Ron Amikam does not skip mines in his full prediction for the new football season
Ron Amikam
08/19/2022
Friday, August 19, 2022, 4:00 p.m
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Tiktukno, 18.8 (Sport1)
We haven't had such a maddening summer in Israeli football for a long time, with the major consolidations, the saga of the sale of Beitar Jerusalem, and the tremendous success of Israeli football - starting with the team in the Nations League, through the qualification of the youth team to the finals of the European Championship and the excellent performance of the teams so far The Israelis are in the European Cup qualifiers. So what can we expect this season?
The Greens are big on the league, but fatigue may overwhelm them.
Piero (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)
Maccabi Haifa
It seems that the last month made it very clear to us the strength of Maccabi Haifa, which looks better than it did in the last two years in which it already won two championships.
The Greens have six foreigners at a high level, it will be interesting which of them will not start in every game (my bet for first option: Pierre Cornot), not to mention its arsenal of nationals.
Haifa is big on the league, but it will have to deal with three big obstacles: 1. Combine houses in Europe until the World Cup, congestion and pumping energy.
2. The transition from Europe to the league, and to games against teams that will come to interfere, a matter that causes a feeling of satiety.
3. The past of Barak Becher against Vladan Ivitch and of the entire team against Eran Zahavi.
Haifa will also need an exorcist in its lineup.
If the champion pulls it off, it will be her biggest championship ever, and surely a third star on the crest is well deserved.
Prediction:
places 2-1
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Beer Sheva needs to present vibrant football.
Hamad (photo: Danny Maron)
Hapoel Beer Sheva
There have been great teams in the past - say Beitar Jerusalem in the 1995/6 season, even Hapoel Be'er Sheva itself in the 1993/4 season - that did not manage to touch the title because they were better than it. This seems to be the case of the cup holder: it is able to beat any team, even in Europe, But over time her struggle may run into a wall. She herself is close to a home match in Europe, which will drain her energies, and she has to face two good European rivals throughout the season.
The acquisition of Tomer Hamed is interesting, but the question is what numbers he will provide. So is the acquisition The freshman Shafi Suleimanov. The defense is promising, the goalkeeper Bensika - but if the football does not stir and is based mainly on stationary situations it will not be enough.
Prediction:
places 3-2
No longer a tiebreaker.
Ivitch (Photo: Udi Citiat)
Maccabi Tel Aviv
Vladan Ivitch, Eran Zahavi, Nir Biton, Dor Peretz, maybe also Eli Dassa, certainly Oskar Gloch.
It's a lot in the terms of Maccabi Tel Aviv, but there is no new tie-breaking foreigner here.
There are Israelis here who know, are ready and connected to the club.
Ivic is also no longer a tie breaking stranger since his less good years after the previous term.
He will meet Barak Becher when he is more experienced.
Mitch Goldhar's project depends on a lot of delicate ingredients and faces two good and worthy clubs.
It can end in the championship, it can also end without runners-up.
Many parameters are put to the test here: the age of the stars, the quality of some of the foreigners, a precise rotation, Ivić's ability to detach himself from the personal disappointment and once again create for himself a springboard for tomorrow.
And yes, you also need a lot of patience.
Mainly from the audience.
Prediction:
Places 3-1
In Netanya they haven't found a replacement for him yet, and it's doubtful that they will.
Kartsev (photo: Barney Ardov)
Maccabi Netanya
In full appreciation of the romance that Benny Lam brought with him when he started his first real term as a graduate coach with a storm, at the age of 64, Maccabi Netanya did not get stronger last summer and even weakened.
Aden Kartsev was the heart of the team, Parfa Giagon gave it the bastards, Zlatan Shehovic gave quality.
Kartsev has been looking for a replacement for the last few weeks from everyone nearby and it is not certain that we will find someone of his caliber on the shelf.
Even the foreigners brought by Almog Cohen from Germany have yet to prove superiority, and the early elimination from Europe, with no official games until the league can stutter the start of the season.
Netanya will strive to move up, but in front of the wall that is placed above it, it is doubtful if this is possible.
Prediction:
places 5-4
It was not enough to leave a mark so that his absence would be felt.
Leidner (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)
Hapoel Tel Aviv
I'm actually one of those who likes the work of Omer Buxenbaum at Hapoel Tel Aviv, the right man to match the limited budgetary capabilities of the luxury club with the impressive reserve that comes from below.
Hapoel will present Stav Lemkin (and possibly Or Israelov), Omer Senor and Al Yam Kanzpolsky who will be added to the players who have long since become seniors, plus reasonable and effective league players such as Eddie Gottlieb, Dan Einbinder, Shlomi Azoulai, Sintaiho Sallich, Yahav Gorfinkel and especially Case Ghanem and Hisham Laios (who may to be the discovery of the season).
Doron Leidner has not yet left a mark for anyone to miss him.
In the end, Hapoel will rise and fall on the quality of the foreigners, the bravado of the youngsters and the strength of the system, not to mention the loyal audience and the excellent coach.
Hapoel will be a top team.
The question in this league is what is really top?
Prediction:
places 5-4
The fact that Sakhnin has to sell it to pass inspection is a delusion.
Gnaim (photo: Barney Ardov)
Bnei Sakhnin
There is no bluff in football.
You can't come every summer with your tongue hanging out for budget control - even after Beitar Jerusalem - with the annual resignation of Abu Younes and endless cries of deprivation. At the end of the day Sakhnin is not a top team, but a team that fights for its life and stands every year with forays here and there to the top playoffs In this matter, Hapoel Haifa is for the poor.
With all due respect to Biram Kiel - a class in itself - and Taleb Tuatekha, who was injured and did not play yet, Sakhnin weakened (selling Ihab Ganaim in order to pass control is a delusion). Don't go down, but don't forget to say at the end of the season, thank you, it's all over Only in this.
Prediction:
places 10-9
The ordination of Kiryat Shmona will always be too short.
Koretsky (Photo: Danny Maron)
Urban Kiryat Shmona
For Kiryat Shmona the blanket will always be too short.
Sometimes it's the owner, sometimes the coach, sometimes the players, certainly the lack of the audience and the non-existent homeliness.
The team is in the same place where it ended last season, something between sixth and eighth place.
The pinnacle of mediocrity - the queen of the egg.
Sakhnin will clear a place in the upper playoffs, but it is a tender - and it is not sewn.
Prediction:
Places 6-8
He shone in the Toto Cup, but Hadera will not be measured by the achievements in such an enterprise.
Burar (Photo: Shlomi Gabai)
Hapoel Hadera
May the Toto Cup not confuse you.
Beitar Tel Aviv Bat Yam won the National Toto Cup last season and was relegated in a storm to League A. It's tempting to write for the fifth summer in a row that Khedra was a candidate for relegation - because this time she both weakened and appointed an inexperienced coach - but she is a known card predator, and betting against her is a little scary So we'll make a reservation: Hadera lost Osman, Plekoshchenko and Guzlan, and got Sami Burar, who shone in the Toto Cup, and Niko Olesk, who arrived late. You don't measure ability by a factory where the big teams don't participate and teams just organize. In the end, Nemani collected the test of his life.
Prediction:
13th places -11
Barak Bacher of the bottom.
Ran Ben Shimon (Photo: Liron Moldovan)
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Ashdod
Ran Ben Shimon is Barak Bacher of the underground.
A proven and smart trainer with a good eye and exceptional abilities.
His staying in Ashdod is a recognition of the good there is, with a staff that is always renewed with young people and with a club that in the end will prefer an exit over results.
Ashdod is worth a top playoff, but it is not certain that the departure of Kenny Seif, Ataa Jaber and Firas Abu Aqel will not hurt it.
At the moment its foreigners seem promising, the team less so.
Prediction:
Places 6-8
Beitar's biggest asset. Aboksis (Photo: Danny Maron)
Beitar Jerusalem
Again, there is no bluffing in football.
What walks like a duck and ducks like a duck, will eventually quack like a duck.
Last summer for Beitar Jerusalem somehow ended without disbanding and without dropping points, but with a very limited squad that may be strengthened by foreigners - it is doubtful that there will be any great deals. Yossi Abouxis is the club's greatest resource, even more so than the crowd that hung a big question mark over his commitment to the team without Ambitions other than survival. So it will end in survival, maybe heroic, just to make it interesting below.
Prediction:
9-10 places
Hapoel Haifa is much better than it looks in the Toto Cup.
Turgeman and Maman (Photo: Danny Maron)
Hapoel Haifa
As with Hadera, don't let the Toto Cup confuse you.
Hapoel Haifa has a better than usual staff, an experienced coach and not a sucker, a hostel that is generally respectable and ambitions to reach the top playoffs.
For more than that, she will have to change owners, and Yoav Katz is not one to let go.
To Hanan Maman, Alon Turgeman and Liran Serdal are added Gidi Kaniuk, Shuval Gozlan and foreigners, some of whom currently look like flops, certainly not like Ozbelot.
In the end it will come together - after a release here and there - the question is when it is "the end".
Prediction:
Places 6-8
Mediocre squad, but a lot of home players.
Hapoel Jerusalem players (photo: Barney Ardov)
Hapoel Jerusalem
The healthiest club after our four Europeans - with a vision, path and social agenda.
It's just a shame that the Reds from the capital don't have money and they have to rely on a rather mediocre squad, even though it has a lot of home players who have been playing together for a while.
Last season it ended by staying at the last minute and Ziv Arie - the most colorful coach in the league - gets credit for the fourth season in a row, which is not a given.
The departure of William Agada and Eduardo Guerrero could turn out to be critical, if no equal foreigner is found or if Mahmoud Salman jumps six steps.
Prediction:
places 11-13
Does anyone really believe that Reyna will survive?
Hadiya (photo: Barney Ardov)
Reina's sons
Said Basoul's project, which climbed from the Second League to the Premier League in three seasons, reaches its end and reveals unbearably hard facts: this league is closed almost to the eighth place, at the bottom there are clubs with an audience that has a home as well as home players, and none of them are pursued by the registrar of associations.
So it is true that the squad has been strengthened - which needs to be connected - and the great Adham Hadiya has been given permission to stand on the lines, but come on, does anyone believe that Raina will survive in the league?
Someone has to believe.
Prediction:
places 11-13
With a mediocre squad, no home field and no money - Ness Ziona really has no chance of surviving.
Nir Berkovich (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)
Ness Ziona section
Nice Nir Berkovic, but if he looks above him he will realize that he has nowhere to move forward.
With a super mediocre staff at the level of a top national league, no home field, no supporting crowd, no extraordinary money and with a good chance that he won't even finish the season.
Ness Ziona will be relegated, because there is no other league that will be relegated so surely.
Prediction:
14th place
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