The bad - Hatem Abdelhamid and Roni Levy
Hatem Abdelhamid met Maccabi Haifa twice this season.
The first time it was in the third round, in Turner, as a Hapoel BS player, where he caused a penalty, received a yellow card, was replaced at halftime and his team ended up losing 2:1.
Yesterday, he met the Greens again as hosts, this time in the derby and it ended even worse.
Own goal (albeit more Liran Sardal's fault, and still), red card, loss of control and another loss.
Alhamid came to Hapoel Haifa quite by chance.
He wasn't supposed to be there at this point in his career.
It was Bachar and the Greens who wanted him when it was clear that he was leaving BS. But Alona vetoed it and the fall fell on the Reds from Carmel.
Alhamid.
Lost control, photo: Maor Alxalsi
He came to a team that failed to select foreigners, with a coach who is in negative momentum.
And Alhamid, despite physical and technical qualities at a European level, is not one to lift a team and make it change momentum, on the contrary.
So the negative momentum continued, Klinger was fired after a loss at home to Ness Ziona and Roni Levy arrived, another football player with a lot of potential who is in negative momentum mainly due to personal issues.
Three games since then for Haifa, one right goal, a loss, a draw and three reds.
Luckily for Roni Levy and Alhamid, the break is already around the corner (for the brake, it started yesterday).
Levy will be able to organize the ranks, make changes in the squad (mainly in the foreigners' position) and try to change the momentum of his and the player's career.
But at least for now, it seems that Alhamid and the coach need the break more than anyone else in the Premier League.
Well, maybe except for the man who carries the entire league on his back, hasn't won since the first round and I'll talk about him in the next section.
Red ticket for braking, photo: Maor Alxalsi
The Expected - Menachem Koretsky and Kiryat Shmona
KS started the last season in a weak way, with a minus mediocre squad of players and an inexperienced coach in the Premier League. After a defeat at Sami Ofer in the ninth round, only seven right goals and a drop to the last place, Izzy Sharetzky decided to bring in Sloboden Drapitz (Exactly one year from today).
Almost no changes in the squad (on the contrary, they lost a stopper due to injury and a foreign striker who was released).
Drapitch worked magic.
KSH played open and attacking football, highlighted Itamar Shabiru, brought Eid Habashi back to life and finished in first place in the lower playoffs.
But all this was not enough for Schertzky, who was taken over by Izzi and he decided in a delusional decision to fire Drapich, because according to his claim, which is not supported by numbers at all, Drapich did not play with enough attacking players and refused to listen to him.
Sharetzky chose to bring Menachem Koretzky to KS, after the latter's great season in Hadera, in a decision that was clearly going to end very badly for both parties. Koretzky got a minus mediocre squad, with no dominant foreigners and his style of football is the complete opposite of what his boss fantasizes about. S has not won since the first round, is having a lot of trouble scoring (a goal per game) and after 12 rounds is carrying the entire league on its back.
Koretsky.
Received a medium faculty, photo: Maor Alxalsi
From Izzy's demand for attractive football and a lot of attacking players, in the last round there remained an array of three brakes, one foreigner in the lineup, a soft and slow link and a lot of frustration and helplessness.
Drapich's first game in KS was against Hapoel BS at home, where he lost 2:1.
On Saturday, KS again hosts BS - the hottest team in the league, and this time it could be Koretsky's last game, in a match that, from the first moment, it was clear that it would not work.
Another small thing
, there are times when the interviews after games are more memorable than the game itself.
So even by Ziv Aryeh's high standards, mentioning Miriam Ruth's legendary children's book, a story in five balloons, is something special.
On the other hand, Vladimir Ivić showed how stressed and nervous he was when he behaved in a disrespectful manner towards the fans who wanted to hear him and of course towards the interviewer, Raanan Baranovski, he answered laconically and lacked desire and only showed how distressed he was and how hard it was for him to function under pressure.
Ivitch.
A bad interview, photo: Alan Shiver
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