Changes in escape habits: the loss that disrupted Maccabi Haifa's plan
Maccabi Haifa has suffered major season humiliations in the past and should not be moved by one defeat, but last night's loss puts Maccabi Tel Aviv in a starting position and becomes more important than expected.
Ofek Biton takes the opportunity given to him and Beer Sheva still owes Rotem Hatuel
David Rosenthal
09/19/2022
Monday, September 19, 2022, 4:00 p.m
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Summary of Hapoel Jerusalem's victory 0:3 over Maccabi Haifa (Sport1)
The history of Maccabi Haifa is full of embarrassing losses in big seasons.
The most memorable of all is the "split screen" game with the 4:0 defeat to Maccabi Kiryat Gat, but there were also the 3:0 derby humiliation a season before, the 4:0 to Beitar Jerusalem after Manchester United in 2002/3, the -5:0 to Maccabi Netanya in 1990/1 which was a resounding blow that ended in a double, and more.
Therefore, Maccabi Haifa is allowed to lose, and I won't even add here "but not like this". After the enormous effort the players invested against Paris Saint-Germain came the mental collapse And the physical and it is understandable, although let's face it - 99.8 percent of the football fan population (including Ziv Aryeh and his family members) did not think that Hapoel Jerusalem would win 0:3, and if there was someone like that - Show me the money.
Barak Becher's problem is the problem that accompanies all the teams that played in intensive campaigns in Europe and especially in the Champions League - how to divide the forces, effort and concentration between the enterprises, how to carry out the rotation.
The champion did not lose a point until last night and the feeling was that everything was good, but in all her previous games she appeared only in the second half and in that she also scored most of her goals, in a considerable number of cases after combining the key players.
For a whole month it was enough, but she was playing with fire.
Yesterday, when she started with the strong line-up, she was burned.
It's hard to come back from a two-goal deficit at halftime, even if you have Omer Azili, Dolev Haziza and Charon Sherry playing in your team.
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chase?
Not during the Champions season (photo: Barney Ardov)
The national team break came to Maccabi Haifa on time.
After that she has two key games - one against Maccabi Tel Aviv and then Juventus.
The way the two look, it is not clear who is better than who, nor which game is more important.
Becher planned to reach this meeting with a two-point lead, which could have grown to five and provided a nice safety net for the rest of the road.
Instead he will come from second place one point behind.
Not the end of the world and definitely fixable in the sixth round of the season, but something that completely changes the preparation and the perspective on the match.
If Maccabi Tel Aviv wins and the gap increases to four points, suddenly everything will look completely different, Maccabi Haifa will have to start chasing.
In the season of champions, chasing is a very difficult task.
A group with a horizon
Hapoel Jerusalem started last season with almost no loanees.
In the January transfer window, they realized that it was impossible to stay in the league with the existing squad and started importing.
One of the players who made the way from the center was Ofek Bitton.
In Hapoel Tel Aviv, they believed that he still needed to recover, and after the loan last year, he asked in the summer to leave again to graze in foreign fields.
Last night he gave the biggest game of his short career.
It's easy to sit this morning as a Hapoel Tel Aviv fan and lament the temporary waiver of Bitton, but a player needs security and stability, and what Bitton gets in Hapoel Jerusalem he wouldn't get in the shaky Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Quietly-quietly we built a healthy club in the capital.
The first year for a team that is not used to the Premier League is extremely difficult, then it is easier.
Suddenly you rose in the hierarchy, you went through the initiation ceremony.
You're not the new kid in the neighborhood, not to mention that old thugs like Hapoel Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem are no longer what they used to be, to say the least. The selection of those who are able to give you painful kicks has narrowed, you're a step up in evolution. Now you're the one who can take a bite here and there.
In the next cycle - Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Beaton (photo: Barney Ardov)
In this state of affairs, it seems that Hapoel Yerushalayim is establishing itself well this season.
At the very least, she's saving points for a rainy day.
In a better scenario, she will fight for a place in the top playoffs.
It is still too early to know where this season will go for her, but the more she perseveres and collects the points, the more room she will give to players like Beaton.
In the next cycle, by the way, he meets Hapoel Tel Aviv.
the silent killer
In the great 2016/17 season, Hapoel Be'er Sheva had some terrifying killers.
Maor Bozaglu, Tony Wakama, Eliniv Barda and Maor Malikson - all ruthless clutch players.
This was a heavily armed team that pulled out at any given moment.
How did they say about them in real time?
You don't know where it will come from.
The only killer left from that group is Miguel Vitor.
Although he knows how to get the job done in attack sometimes, Vitor, when healthy, is mainly a last stop, the safest defensive stock, not only in Beer Sheva but in the entire league.
But what about the second part, the one that should score?
Be'er Sheva has some good players, ones who on paper can score.
It does happen sometimes - after all, they scored five goals against the non-team in Beitar and three last week against Hapoel Tel Aviv, including the penalty goal of the improving Eugene Ansa - but it doesn't happen enough. Sometimes it's Ansa, sometimes it's Spori, He used to be greedy, but there is no player who will carry Beer Sheva.
I mean, there is none, if you don't consider Rotem Hatuel.
Not spoiled, having fun.
Hatuel (Photo: Danny Maron)
The Israeli actor is spoiled.
He tends to want more and more.
Hatuel is a rare breed, one of those who are happy with what they have.
He enjoys playing football, will come off the bench with the same level of motivation as a player who is developed in the team.
And oh, yes, he totally reminds me of Malikson, also in the ugly oxidation of the hair (sorry, guys, the eighties are long gone), but mostly in the love of the game, the recognition as a home player of the club (even though neither of them grew up there) and the ability to decide.
For now that's enough, sort of.
Beer Sheva credits Hatuel with the group stage in the conference and the three points yesterday against Sakhnin that left them in the battle for the top.
Down the road she'll need more cats, because no matter how good he is, he won't be able to carry her on his back alone.
And if so, he's probably much, much better than we realize.
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