Much more than a season game: on the importance of the meeting between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa

There are games that can teach about a change of trend, about a transformation and a change of shifts - and tonight's meeting is such.

The Yellows trust Daniel Peretz and do not feel the need to take him down, while around Eran Zahavi there is a feeling of "the calm before the storm"

Yaniv Tuchman

01/10/2022

Saturday, October 1, 2022, 11:00

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Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Beitar Jerusalem 0:4 (Sport1)

1. Dawn Piven arrived first.

He lives in Rishon LeZion next to Shamir Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, so it was easiest for him to get there.

After him, Gabi Kanikovski, Dor Peretz and Ofir Davidzade also camped near the children's department.

Maccabi Tel Aviv usually sends a delegation of four players to visit children in hospitals, but Daniel Peretz also wanted to join.

With his shy smile he entered one of the wards a little late after his friends had already started the visit.

It is not new to break the bond with sick children.

Players at Maccabi Tel Aviv say that there are three children that the goalkeeper of Maccabi Tel Aviv has been adopting for a long time.

Those who need his reinforcements beyond the medical treatment and he is there for them throughout the week.

It is no coincidence that he is said to be much more mature than his 22 years.

This is reflected on the pitch.

This is even more noticeable in life outside of Kiryat Shalom.

Peretz has patience, silence and unlike the intensity on the grass, he also has a lot of tenderness and warmth.

When he walked down the corridor of the hospital three weeks ago, one of the visitors wished him luck in the match against Albania.

Peretz informed the greeter that he will play against Ireland in the junior team playoffs.

"It's no less important," the guy said to him.

"You will take us to the Junior Euros," he said and knew what he was saying.

Peretz has patience, silence and, in contrast to the intensity on the grass, also a lot of tenderness and warmth (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)

Yesterday at training in Kiryat Shalom, Christos Kalfakis stepped onto the grass first.

The Greek goalkeeping coach who fixed Frederag Rayjkovic's head and led him to be sold from Maccabi Tel Aviv to France, is also the one who works with Peretz.

Kalafakis has the ability to clean the negative elements from any goalkeeper and focus him only on the positive side.

Peretz developed even before the return of Kalafkis to Israel together with Vladan Ivic, but now it is their time together and Peretz's tremendous performance in penalties against Ireland in Bloomfield, is also thanks to the joint work of both of them.

Maccabi Tel Aviv's game tonight in Haifa is more than a normal game.

Much more than a season game.

There are games that can teach about a change in trend.

about a transformation and a change of shifts.

Even Messi and Neymar who played on the grass at Sami Ofer left impressed by the crazy atmosphere.

There are not many stadiums in Europe with the craze that has been around Maccabi Haifa in the last year.

In the face of this madness, the calmness and composure of Daniel Peretz will stand as the last stop.

From both directions, thousands of fans will stand behind him, teasing and cursing, trying to distract him and drive him crazy.

If there's anyone who can stand it, it's a blast.

Maccabi Tel Aviv has several bunkers ahead of tonight's game.

Peretz joined them regularly this season.

When Maccabi Tel Aviv ended in a tie against M.S.

Ashdod, Ivić was decent enough to admit that he could also have lost the game, that if not for the two great saves of Peretz against the Ashdod players, Maccabi Tel Aviv could also have lost.

A draw wouldn't be a bad result for Maccabi Tel Aviv and with one conceded goal in five rounds they can at least believe in a point tonight, but no one is talking about less than a win.

Daniel Peretz will have a lot of weight in how the game ends.

Ivić said about him this week that he doesn't need someone to bring him down after the high against Ireland, that with Peretz there are no mental barriers that need to be neutralized.

Even at such a young age for a goalkeeper, Peretz is one of the dominant figures that Ivic has to offer at such a significant junction.

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Peretz with his friends during a visit to the children's department (photo: Walla! system, Yaniv Tuchman)

2. If it weren't for the room affair in the Israeli national team, Eran Zahavi's return to the Premier League would have been crowned until now as solid in the terms we are used to number 7. The return of the biggest star of Israeli football in the last ten years opened with a storm in Europe with very important goals for Maccabi Tel Aviv, but in the league The super is meanwhile on a relatively low gear.

The bitter penalty in Ashdod proved that Zahabi is also a human being.

Bad tongues have already begun to discuss the possibility that this is not what Maccabi Tel Aviv expected and hoped to receive.

Zahavi works hard in Kiryat Shalom and prepares himself for the real comeback.

If until recently he still felt pain because of the knee surgery and the rehabilitation he went through, now he is fit.

This silence around him could indicate that something is going to explode.

If there is a game where Zahavi can once again say "I didn't go anywhere", it is tonight's game.

The quiet before the storm?

Eran Zahavi after the missed penalty in Ashdod (Photo: Liron Moldovan)

In his best years at Maccabi Tel Aviv, Maccabi Haifa was not a real candidate for the championship.

She must not have been a favorite.

Hapoel Beer Sheva was on the verge of its dynasty, so the last years in which Maccabi Tel Aviv became runner-up to the champion from the Carmel, he still did not feel.

The fact that in such a week of a season game, the heroes talked about around Maccabi Tel Aviv are Daniel Peretz, Oskar Gloch and Yonatan Cohen, can only help the Zahabi to come quietly and steal the show from the yellow side.

The team was successful without him against Albania, the young team is already signaling that the next generation is knocking on the door and Zavii seems to have been somewhat forgotten and dropped under the radar.

For games like tonight Mitch Goldhar brought him back and the first to know it is Eran Zahavi.

On the grass where he once threw away the captain's armband at the biggest low point of his career, he will want to finish as the hero of the evening.

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