On Saturday, Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv will meet in Sami Ofer for a game that is not too early to define as the game of the season. Although this is only the sixth round, but because the two teams are in their own league, it would be appropriate to try to compare them, in a uniform and flexible formation. If you are looking for a decision, you will have to wait to the game itself.
goalkeeper
Josh Cohen - 7 / Daniel Peretz - 9.5
Cohen is a good goalkeeper, a leader, understands the game and gives peace to the green defense.
His footwork is mediocre, and his control in the square needs improvement.
A burst is a lift.
Outstanding personality, excellent footwork, wonderful instincts and a tremendous presence in the yellow goal.
After the heroic performance in the youth team, he arrives with peak confidence.
Daniel Peretz
Iloy, photo: Alan Shiver
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Dolev Haziza - 8 / Andre Geraldesh - 6
Haziza is the best Israeli in Haifa since the beginning of the season.
He improved his decision-making, reduced the amount of touches on the ball and became a significantly more efficient player.
Geraldesh is less suited to a formation of three brakes.
His attacking abilities are not great (never scored), and his contribution in this aspect is negligible.
Dolev Haziza.
The best Israeli in Haifa, photo: Maor Alxalsi
Dylan Betobinsika - 6 / Derrick Lucassen - 6
Batubinsika, who integrated into Haifa faster than Abdulai Sek, stepped into the huge shoes of Bogdan Palanich.
He is quick with a good head game, and his footwork will be tested when he is more coordinated with his teammates.
Lucassen is an interesting acquisition, that if he connects with Voladan Ivic, a coach who knows how to upgrade brakes, he can become one of the best brakes in the league thanks to his technical abilities.
Dylan in Tubinsica.
Stepping into Bogdan Palanich's shoes, photo: Maor Alxalsi
Daniel Sondgren - 7.5 / Nir Biton - 7.5
The Swede is Haifa's bingo.
Versatile defender, understands the game perfectly and allows Bacher the tactical flexibility and the transition between formations without an external replacement.
Bitton adds a lot to Maccabi Tel Aviv, in terms of leadership, experience and especially technical ability and moving the ball from the back.
As with Sondgren, Bitton can easily be pushed a step forward and allow Ivic to make tactical adjustments on the fly.
Nir Biton.
Adds confidence and leadership, photo: Alan Shiver
Sean Goldberg - 8 / Enrique Saborit - 8
Goldberg's breakout is nothing short of amazing.
From a rotation defender who moves between teams, he became within a year the bunker of the champion and the team and the best ball stopper in the league.
Saborit is one of the best foreigners who landed here.
He is a very smart player, and many of Ivić's attacking patterns on the left start with him.
He is also a defensive anchor.
Sean Goldberg.
From a defender in the rotation, to a stopper for the Israeli national team, photo: Maor Alxalsi
Pierre Cornot - 7 / Ofir Davidzadeh - 6.5
Curno is a defender with good offensive qualities, quiet with the ball and has a wonderful lifting ability.
Davidzadeh improved his decision-making in the attack this season, and became a regular player in the yellow team.
Davidzada.
A regular player in the Maccabi Tel Aviv lineup, photo: Alan Shiver
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Neta Lavi - 7.5 / Dan Glazer - 7
After a difficult season, in which Lavi was mostly injured and a shadow of himself, the Haifa captain came back in a big way.
The aggressiveness and breaking of the lines in his dribbling gives the two midfielders in front of him freedom to concentrate on the attack.
Glazer is Ivitch's man.
His great defensive presence allows Oskar Gloch to save energy in defense, and concentrate on trips between the lines.
Dan Glazer.
Ivitch's man, photo: Alan Shiver
Ali Muhammad - 8 / Gabi Kanikovsky - 8
The two players who made the most significant step up this season.
Had it not been for the injury, Muhammad's score would have been higher.
He was Haifa's best player in the Champions League qualifiers.
Kanikovski received a gift in the form of Ivić, who upgraded him on several levels, as he did in the previous term to Eyal Golsa and Dor Peretz.
Ali Muhammad
The best in Haifa's ranks in the Champions League qualifiers, photo: Maor Alxalsi
Charon Sherry - 8 / Oscar Gloch - 9
Sherry started the season great, looks relaxed and happy and gives Haifa a threat from the second line and the brilliance in the center of the field.
Gloch is a talent that grows once in a generation.
A genius between the lines, efficient, sharp, behaves with grace and is a danger to the opponent every second he is on the field.
attack
Gloch
A once-in-a-generation talent, photo: Alan Shiver
Omar Atzili - 8.5 / Eran Zahavi - 7.5
Although Etzili was not the team player in Haifa's outstanding run to the group stage of the Champions League, in the league he simply continued from where he left off last season, with six goals and two assists.
The return of Zahavi was the second big news for Maccabi Tel Aviv this season (along with the coach), but his advanced age, the injury at the beginning of the season and the rise of Gloch put him in an unfamiliar position - he is no longer the man in God's knowledge, the one everyone is working for, But only part of the yellow machine. The way he adapts to the new status could have an acute meaning regarding the fate of the yellows' season.
Eran Zehavi.
Still carrying a mountain of expectations, photo: Alan Shiver
Franzadi Piero - 7 / George Jovanovic - 7.5
Piero is a strong player, an excellent defender of the ball, with a wonderful head game and a significant presence in the square, but with deficiencies in the ability to kick, which makes it difficult for the green striker in our league, which is mostly played on the ground.
Jovanovic is less powerful, but he knows how to run back and participate in the game (which is more suitable for our league).
His finishing ability is great.
Frenzadi Piero.
Will he prove that he is suitable for the league?, Photo: Alan Shiver
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