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Living the past: Maccabi Tel Aviv's thesis shattered in her face - voila! sport

2022-11-01T06:11:06.514Z


Maccabi Tel Aviv were sure that with Ivitch, Zahavi and Peretz they had a recipe for an easy championship. But of the players who returned, only the name remains. And also: the rise of Eliniv Barda


Living the past: Maccabi Tel Aviv's thesis shattered in her face

Maccabi Tel Aviv were sure that with Ivitch, Zahavi and Peretz they had a recipe for an easy championship.

But of the players who returned, only the name remains and right now the yellows have to hope that Maccabi Haifa will not be kicked out of Europe, otherwise the greens will break up the league and rush to an easy championship

Moshe Booker

01/11/2022

Tuesday, November 01, 2022, 08:00 Updated: 08:02

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Summary: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Tel Aviv 0:2 (Sport 1)

There are moments that change a coach's career.

There is a moment when the coach can mark the event in which he felt the change in his career.

Hapoel Beer Sheva's victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv is the moment when Eliniv Barda received the recognition he deserved.

What winning the State Cup, after the victory over the champion Maccabi Haifa did not do for him, the victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv will do for him.

Starting last night after the impressive 0:2 over Maccabi Tel Aviv, the treatment of Berda the coach will be different.

Completely.



Recently there has been a furor against the media.

He resented her disdain for Hapoel Beer Sheva and him.

He vented his frustration on the superlatives Bacher and Ivitch receive, when he is not really counted.

He didn't say it explicitly, but he meant exactly that.

He resented the media's lack of appreciation for him, the preferential treatment that Bacher and Ivitch receive, the fact that (almost) no one counted them as candidates for the championship, the disbelief that a coach like him, inexperienced, is capable of leading Beer Sheva to the championship.

Especially against two lions like Becher and Ivic.

Defeated Becher in the cup final, made a school for Ivić.

Breda (Photo: Liron Moldovan)

Breda's attack on the media managed to surprise many, and all because he has accustomed us over the years as a special, loved, kind, gentle, polite and respectful person, the kind who never gets angry.

Probably not an attack.

In short, a true gentleman.

Even much more than a European.

The young coach's attack stemmed from frustration, from a charge he had stored inside him from the moment he was appointed coach of Hapoel Beer Sheva.



What winning the State Cup didn't do for Barda (beating Maccabi Haifa in the final), and what advancing to the group stage in the Conference League didn't do for him, the victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv did for him.

And that's exactly what caused his frustration in that sharp attack on the media.

As of last night, Breda got the status and recognition he wanted to get.

No longer just a legitimate coach in the Premier League, not one who got a job from Alona Barkat to plug a hole.



Barda knows Elisha Levy very well.

He knows that if there was something that drove Levy the coach out of his mind, it was the talk about his personality.

Everyone said about him that he was a rare person (which is true) and did not appreciate him properly as a coach.

Even after winning two championships with Maccabi Haifa, Levy told journalists that he is being wronged when they always remind him that he is a good person.

"As soon as you say about a coach - he is a good coach, it means that his professional side is not appreciated," said Levy many times.

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Not only a "good man" but a great coach, in the league of Ivić and Bacher (Photo: Liron Moldovan)

And this is exactly what Breda wanted to prevent in his outburst on the media a few weeks ago.

He wanted the recognition as a coach.

Not as a man.

The victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv gave him the stamp that he is not only an amazing person, but also an excellent coach.

If there were still those who believed that Breda's success as a coach stems from the fact that the players love him (an amazing man, we already said), play for him, the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv proved that he is both.

Many raised an eyebrow with the placement of Shagib Yehezkel as a right defender, later it turned out to be a great blessing.



The combination of placing Yehezkel (who excelled) as a defender, together with the brilliant management of the game that led to victory, the one that made Beer Sheva a worthy candidate for the championship, are what made Barda at the end of the game a much more legitimate coach.

The composition, the management of the game and the substitutions, suddenly proved that Breda is also a tactical coach.

The amazing success of Rotem Hatuel, the return to life of Roi Gordana, for example, is another example of the recognition Barda deserves.



When the many commentators tried until now to analyze the candidacy for winning the championship, Beer Sheva, as far as they were concerned, was not in the picture.

The fact that the team won three championships in a row and the state cup in the last decade was not enough for them.

The fact that Be'er Sheva has a roster of players no less than Maccabi Tel Aviv (soon we will get to Maccabi), did not change their minds.



No one counted Beer Sheva as a candidate for the championship not because Alona Barkat's pockets are not deep, nor because of the bad roster of players, and certainly not because she does not have a large and supportive audience, one that brings her points.

Beer Sheva suffered from a low score in the betting exchange (of the media), mainly because of the lack of experience of its coach on the lines, especially when the opponents on the lines are Ivić and Bakr.

That's it, we can congratulate Eliniv Barda for entering the league of the greats.

From now on the burden of proof is on him.

He is no longer just an amazing person.

He is also a coach who wants and is able to bring a championship to the cup holder.

In Maccabi Tel Aviv they were convinced that with Ivitch and Zavi they would sail to the championship, but the thesis shattered in their faces (Photo: Liron Moldovan)

There are many differences between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

One of them is Haifa's ability to always look forward to the future, know how to improve and conquer another goal.

At Maccabi Tel Aviv they try to live the past.

Maccabi were confident because they had the recipe for the championship: Ivitch and Zahabi.

And Oskar Gloch is a tie-breaking bingo in general.

With this belief, Maccabi Tel Aviv thought that by the 10th round, the team would be in first place with a promising gap from the champion.



After all, Bacher and his players will concentrate on the Champions League, its players will be exhausted, the reality of Israeli football has already proven that a team that played in the Champions League failed in the league.

And Maccabi had more faith.

Bacher and his players are already fed up, they are as hungry as they are, their goal is to succeed in the Champions League, to impress scouts, they will leave the local stage to them.



And here, after the 10th round in the league, the entire thesis of Maccabi Tel Aviv shattered in their faces.

Not only is Maccabi Haifa doing an excellent campaign in the best league in the world, not only can it record a huge achievement and play in the European League at the top 32 stage, not only is it in the race for the championship, it is in first place and looks the best of all.



Maccabi Tel Aviv is not a team suitable for this season's championship.

And not because of the loss in Beer Sheva.

Mitch Goldhar probably believed that with Ivić on the lines and Zavebi on the grass, Maccabi would gallop to the championship.

Maccabi Tel Aviv is today paying the price of complacency, arrogance, and perhaps also the hesitancy and frugality displayed by Goldhar in the summer months.

Yes Ivitch no Ivitch, yes Zahavi no Zahavi, yes Dor Peretz no Dor Peretz, yes Yonatan Cohen no Yonatan Cohen.

Maccabi Tel Aviv today pays the price for the delay in signing the coach and building the squad.

True, Maccabi has a large roster of players.

Very big even.

But some of Maccabi's players have no place in the team that wants to fight for the championship against Maccabi Haifa (and Hapoel Beer Sheva), the players that Maccabi brought back (Zahabi, Peretz, Cohen) are no longer the same players.

The name is the same, the ability is no longer what it was (if Yonatan Cohen is on the bench because of being overweight then what was the point of bringing him in?).

Not the same player who left Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Dor Peretz (Photo: Liron Moldovan)

Even the great victories of Maccabi Tel Aviv, the great moments in the games this season, and even the sparks and brilliance of Oscar Gloch, do not make Maccabi the best team in the league.

Also the fact that Maccabi Tel Aviv has played in each of the league games so far with a different team (and not because of the rotation), only illustrates the problem the team has.

The Yellows had good intentions, they also had good intelligence on the opponent from Haifa, but they fell short in their ability to manage risks.



Goldhar believed that football is business.

He decided to manage calculated risks (with the delay in the signing and the level of the players). He and his people probably did not anticipate the impressive work that Barak Bacher would do in Haifa, with the extravagant and expensive procurement campaign, especially after a second championship season, and he took his time.

At the end of the game in Be'er Sheva, Ivitch hinted that he was angry with himself for not pressuring the owner to bring in a suitable purchase.

The problem in Maccabi is that there is no character there who is able to put pressure on Goldhar and influence him.

In recent years, she has not had Cruyff, nor Jack Angalidis.

In other words, Goldhar didn't really count his men in Kiryat Shalom, and he certainly didn't realize the strength of the armament that Maccabi Haifa carried out in the summer.



You can argue with Ivić about the lineups, about the substitutions, you can accuse him of managing a bad game, but you can't praise him after the great victory in the derby and criticize him after a loss in Beer Sheva.

It is impossible to repeat again and again the statements that in the previous tenure of the Serb, it was not possible to beat Maccabi, and hardly to subdue it.

The desire (of Maccabi and the media) to live in the past is its biggest enemy.



Maccabi Haifa is not only a higher quality team, not only an amazing team, Barak Becher built one of the biggest teams that were here in Israeli football this summer, and if Haifa finishes its part in Europe and is not in the Europa League, it seems that it will dismantle the league.

With Europe behind her, she will attack the league.

Currently, Beer Sheva seems a stronger opponent than Maccabi Tel Aviv, unless Goldhar does something.

At the moment, it seems that if Haifa is kicked out of Europe, it will disband the league (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)

Maccabi's chance to save this season is to use the World Cup break to train the players who are out of shape (Zahavi, Peretz and Yonatan Cohen), release several players and sign much better quality players.

Foreigners too.

With the current squad, Maccabi will give performances here and there, draw in some games, but they will not win a championship.

Not sure vices either.



Something bad is happening to the team's scouting department.

After years in which Haifa failed in all the foreigners it brought in, in the last two years, it seems, Haifa has made a school for its rival's scouting department.

A player like Ali Muhammad, who disappeared from Kiryat Shalom's radar, is just an example of the problem Maccabi has.

Brands and players who enjoy a halo in the media are good for selling subscriptions, they don't always deliver the goods.

The league is long and the gap (in the table) is small.

Maccabi can still save the season, it all depends on the boss who sits in Canada.

and not only.

Let's assume that Goldhar agrees to release more money, does Maccabi have any players in the pipeline capable of changing the picture?

I'm in Doubt.

The main thing is that we have a fascinating league.

Even if it is a simulated tension in the battle for the championship (currently) it is a healthy tension, a tension that makes every cycle in this league fascinating and fills stadiums.

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Source: walla

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