It's not very complicated.
Hapoel Jerusalem was not built well enough.
Actually not good enough is an understatement.
There is no element that can be said to work in the team, there is not one player who delivers the goods and already at the start of the season you can say - the Reds are in trouble.
It is true that we have only gone through two league rounds and two games in the European framework, but it is not a rush to draw conclusions.
What is built in the capital cannot work.
There are no season opening discounts and there is no place for clichés like: "give time" or "patience, this is a new team".
There is also no room for excuses like "there are games in which nothing goes in", after the 1 of 24 for three that the team produced yesterday against Ludwigsburg.
It was indeed a rare evening, but it testifies more than anything to the pressure and loss of confidence.
The nine point difference is a lie.
It was a one-sided game in favor of the Germans.
Out of four games, Jerusalem won one and was also close to losing it.
True, there is still time to fix it, but something is not working from the ground up.
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Moving on to the numbers that tell everything.
Four games Jerusalem is struggling to pass 70 points and the changes have to come quickly because nothing here is accidental.
The season has only just started, but the early home in the Champions Cup includes only six games.
If this is not fixed quickly, Jerusalem is going to a third season in a row in which it fails in the European framework.
To remind you, this is a club that engraves success in Europe on its banner.
Jerusalem fans demand war.
The players don't provide that either, photo: Barney Ardov
Jerusalem has brought heavy artillery in the past but this time the method was different.
In the role of the main star in the play is the coach Aleksandar Džikić, who is trying to create a team without flashy players which is not necessarily a bad idea if done correctly.
That's not what happened in this case and then the situation gets worse because there are no individualists to get you out of trouble.
If you go for efficiency at the expense of quality, then at least there will be efficiency.
If you build in this way then connection and commitment must be the hallmark.
Jerusalem has neither of these nor of the other.
Jerusalem is repeating the start of last season, so already at the end of October it said goodbye to coach Oren Amiel after the bad start.
The assessment is that this time the situation is different when Džikić was brought in with great pomp and circumstance with a statement that he was responsible for everything.
The sole owner, therefore, does not seem like there will be another coach before the start of next month, as in the case of Amiel.
Despite this, it can already be said that the coach failed twice.
He also built a bad team and he also fails to influence the material he has.
It seems that he has immunity for the time being, with emphasis on the word for the time being.
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