Going forward: bets for the upcoming season in the Premier League

Israeli football is opening a season, and this is exactly the time to guess: who will win the championship, who will lift the trophy, who will be the "mami" of the sector and who will play the role of the dark horse.

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Maor Zakaria

20/08/2022

Saturday, August 20, 2022, 08:00

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Here's a not particularly daring bet (which is currently worth as much as any other bet, of course): the champion at the end of the season will be Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Not because Maccabi Haifa is not at least as good as the opponent in yellow, but following what was written here just a week ago, it seems that the challenges facing Maccabi Haifa, among them winning a third championship in a row for the second time in history alongside facing Vladan Ivić and Eran Zahavi - are too great.

Here, already this week we heard that in Haifa, a team with a second team that can dismantle half of the league here on foot, are complaining about the fact that they have a league game inserted between the two meetings with Red Star Belgrade.

It's as if they insist, at almost any cost, on staying small.

But God willing, the Israeli league is not the only two teams that will compete for the championship crown this year.

It will be interesting to see what Hapoel Beer Sheva has to say on the subject.

The feeling is that the Reds from the Negev may not win the title, but they will definitely give a fight.

Happily, in the first league in Israel there are several other clubs that arouse quite a bit of curiosity.

The challenges will be too great.

Maccabi Haifa players (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)

For example: Will Beitar Jerusalem be relegated?

If there is justice in the world - and we all know there isn't - the answer is an unequivocal yes.

At the end of the season, Beitar Jerusalem, with all its brilliance, Abramov and Yossi Abouxis, with all its la familias and regulations - will go down to the National League. And it will do it with genius, sportsmanship, on the grass, in a way that no amount of creative legal juggling and no amount of enthusiastic media coverage will be able to prevent But

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Gemara has already taught all of us that "the righteous and the wicked", and the opposite as well, and the people whose mistakes almost destroyed Bnei Yehuda to the core - Aboksis and Abramov, along with the club that turned to dust the entire set of rules and regulations required to manage professional football in 2022, They won't be relegated. Don't be surprised if you find them in the top playoffs, don't rub your eyes in amazement if they take a cup next spring. Yes, this is a bad and terrible message for our entire football culture - from the Nisanov brothers to Hapoel Jerusalem, from Maccabi Netanya to Maccabi Haifa. And it's a shame.

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Who will be the queen of the sector?

Seemingly, this is a lost battle in advance: Sakhnin is old, established, well-rooted, well-combined despite all the hysterical and constant screams of deprivation she emits.

In contrast, Benny Raina looks like a scooter standing next to a new Mercedes.

But there is one very important and critical difference between the two: until now, at least, it seems that Bryna comes to have fun and enjoy football.

Not to represent the entire Arab world in the war for a place in the Israeli consensus, not to turn every yellow card into a conflict on a nationalistic background and not to just quarrel with the whole world.

If it continues like this in the Premier League as well, there is a situation that quite quickly Sakhnin will feel the cruel abandonment of the sympathetic public opinion.

In light of the structure of the rosters, it is likely that both of them will compete at the bottom, and it is hard to believe that Sakhnin will not know how to use her seniority to get the points she needs, certainly in places where Benny Raina will be less successful.

And yet, it seems that after many years without a team from the sector that simply came to play football, this year we will have one - and maybe Benny Sakhnin will also remember how once, before all the politics and Ahmed Tibi in the stands, it was like that too.

Finally there is a group from the sector that came to play football.

Benny Raina (Photo: Barney Ardov)

Who will be the black horse?

Let's put it this way: in this category, Maccabi Netanya should win without many problems.

The thing with Netanya is that every time she is supposed to win something - it is somehow ruined for her.

Such a tradition that the club has been adhering to in recent years.

Therefore, there are several teams that can jump at the chance to finish the league in fourth place.

Hapoel Tel Aviv, of course, which looked good in the Toto Cup, is a serious candidate for stardom.

Another interesting option is MS.

Ashdod, with a staff base that runs together not since today.

And maybe this will even be a surprising candidate, meaning Hapoel Haifa and maybe even Hapoel Jerusalem - although this is already a less likely scenario, because the Red-Blacks from Haifa do not present a good enough squad, and those from Jerusalem could easily fall into the trap of the second season and get stuck deep at the bottom.

Either way, we all know who the prophecy was given to.

It will be worth following and seeing how many of the estimates here are correct or in what way they were ultimately misled.

One thing is important: let there be happy and good football, because we really deserve it.

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