Summary: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Tel Aviv 0:2 (Sport 1)
For a moment it seemed this week, amid the tumult of the elections, that Voladan Ivitch was complaining about the staff he has at Maccabi Tel Aviv.
It happened after the game against Hapoel Beer Sheva, in which Maccabi Tel Aviv managed to lose with an embarrassing, conservative, tired of life display of football that is not suitable for a team in its position.
But there's no way he really complained, it doesn't make sense.
After all, it is not that he has the talent that Ziv Aryeh has in Hapoel Jerusalem, nor that Eliniv Barda has in Hapoel Be'er Sheva.
After all, these two teams, for sure, have a worse squad than that of Maccabi Tel Aviv, and if Ivić had accepted the squad of one of these two teams, he would have taken the first taxi to the National Football League and blocked Mitch Goldhar on WhatsApp.
But Ivic has a great team.
He has an excellent goalkeeper, great brakes, top defenders, a crazy link, Eran Zahavi, Oscar Gloch, bomb strikers.
He doesn't have Europe on his mind, there is time until the cup, all that is required of him is to take his leading tools and tear up the league.
And somehow, despite everything, Ivitch has a total of 73.3% success, which is less than Maccabi Haifa, and a little bit more than Po'el Beer Sheva and Po'el Jerusalem - and we are more than a quarter of a league behind.
Were we blinded by the results at the beginning of the season? (Photo: Barney Ardov)
There is a situation where we were all a bit dazzled by the five of Maccabi Tel Aviv against Rayna, which was followed by six to Hadhra and another four to Beitar. The first two results do not at all reflect the quality of the defeated teams in practice, and the third result was absolutely required. That is, in none of the games, including the three Those who gave Maccabi a goal difference of 0:15, Ivić's yellows did not give a great game.
If anything, you have to look at three other games - the 0:0 in Ashdod, the loss to Maccabi Haifa and the loss in Turner this week, to get a true estimate of the team's level In practice, this is another one of the top teams - after all, any of them can suddenly draw 0:0 in Ashdod, and any of them can beat any other of them, based on parameters such as home advantage and momentum.
What is really troubling, apart from the 0:0 against Ashdod which came at the end of a game with a very weak ability of the yellows, is the fact that the two losses - to Maccabi Haifa and to Beer Sheva - came after very bad football displays, which do not meet the basic standards of Maccabi Tel Aviv as Maccabi Tel Aviv, and certainly do not live up to what is expected of a team that has only one framework to compete with at the moment, when it meets for a top battle with rivals that also have Europe on their minds (by the way, also in the game in Sakhnin, where Maccabi scored a goal in the 88th minute and won, they looked Terrible. But since she won, this game will be left aside).
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It's better if he gets busy playing positive football.
Ivitch (Photo: Liron Moldovan)
There is a situation where the entire "second term" concept of Maccabi Tel Aviv this season is a complete failure.
It's still too early to determine, and no one will fall off the chair if the Yellows end the year with a double, and still - at the moment it really doesn't look good.
And the one who heads this concern and is responsible for the weak performances - even for those that brought points - is Ivitch.
Coming and making excuses that your staff is not good is nice, but it immediately raises questions.
And there are quite a few, such as - why does Ivic play so closed in games against relatively equal or superior teams, even when he needs to score?
Rehabilitate someone who thinks that Maccabi could not have equalized against Nice in the away game at the end of which they were eliminated from Europe this season.
If only she had dared a little, tried something a little different - maybe it would have happened.
But Ivic continued to play with the same method even when he was behind by a goal, which led to extra time at the end of which Maccabi flew home.
Nice is nothing else, Maccabi Tel Aviv is at least at the level of Maccabi Haifa and certainly better than Po'el Beer Sheva.
So how did it happen that for 180 minutes the Yellows do nothing - simply nothing - against these two teams?
Does anyone really think that if Ivić had Hapoel Jerusalem's staff, it would have looked different?
It is better for the Maccabi Tel Aviv coach to get out of the loop he is in.
It is better if he remembers that he is the coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv - the same team with which he dismantled the Israeli league three and four years ago.
It is better for him to look at his players and see that he has the team, probably the best in the league in terms of qualities.
And above all it is better for him to play positive, attacking, daring and pretentious football - as you can play when you coach Maccabi Tel Aviv - instead of providing embarrassing excuses after particularly justified losses.
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