The coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Vladan Ivitch, is receiving harsh criticism following the professional mistakes he made in yesterday's (Saturday) 2:0 loss in the season match against the champion Maccabi Haifa.
The main criticisms are about the choice of formation and the defensive composition he put in place, as well as the late substitutions.
"You can't beat Maccabi Haifa without an attack, and we didn't have an attack," said a player in the team, "the game plan didn't work."
Around the club they stung: "Why come to play so cowardly? He felt that Ivic only wanted not to lose."
Regarding the substitutions, it was not clear why Ivić chose to replace Eyal Golsa (received a yellow) with Joris Van Over and not another offensive player like Oskar Gluch or Parfa Goyagon, even though the coach saw that the things he planned were not working.
In addition, when he took out Eran Zahavi, who is having a bit of trouble getting back to himself since the injury, he put Jovanovic in his place, and again he was left with only one striker instead of trying to play with both.
Eran Zahavi is frustrated.
Again it was not good and was replaced, photo: Maor Alxalsi
A coach who leaves Gluch, Jovanovic (who started in the last victory over Beitar Jerusalem) and Goyagon on the bench is simply playing into the opponent's hands, and Maccabi Haifa took advantage of these errors in a big way. Now the Serbian has a week to learn from the mistakes he made and correct until the derby, which the Yellows did not lose More than eight years.
But not only Ivić will want to forget the game at Sami Ofer but also Enrik Saborit, whose terrible mistake led to Dean David's first goal.
Maccabi encouraged the defensive player and claimed that such mistakes can happen "even to the greatest", and are confident that the Spaniard will continue to be an anchor in the defense.
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