Beitar Jerusalem has been receiving a lot of compliments recently. It plays attractive football, and its attacking trio - Yoon Nicolescu, Jordan Shua and Danilo Asperia - keeps scoring goals, but are the yellow-blacks able to jump a class?
In order for Bitar to prove to itself that the change it is going through is not casual, it needs to look squarely at the opponents who are currently fighting for the championship title, those with bigger budgets than itself - and beat them. It needs to strive to be talked about after a victory of this type, which can make a mess at the top , and they won't mention her after another respectable performance or like the one against Maccabi Haifa, which finally ended in defeat with four goals in the net.
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Will Aboxis be able to stop him?, Photo: Alan Shiver
Tonight against Maccabi Tel Aviv, against the best attacking team in the league, Yossi Abouxis' team has a chance to do it, to prove that in a home game in Teddy, it can give a fight to stars like Oskar Gloch, George Yovanovic and Eran Zahavi.
This will be a very difficult task for Beitar's defense, which is still considered one of the weakest in the league (expected to increase with 5 in defense).
The statistics also do not bode well for Beitar, to put it mildly. Pay attention to the following statistic. The last time Beitar Jerusalem beat Maccabi Tel Aviv in the league was during the Eli Tabiv era.
More precisely, it was in a 2:3 victory over the yellow-blues in April 2018, almost five years ago, when none other than Benny Ben Zaken stood on the lines.
Shua celebrates.
Also tonight against Maccabi Tel Aviv?, Photo: Kobi Eliyahu
Beitar has been suffering against the big three regularly in recent years. Its last victory against one of the big three was in December 2019, a narrow 0:1 against Hapoel Beer Sheva. This was the season when Moshe Hogge poured tens of millions on the team and in the yellow-black team they played in the same The game of Ali Muhammad, Liwai Garcia, Gadi Kinda and Antoine Conte was at its peak.
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The new sheriff of Maccabi Tel Aviv, photo: Alan Shiver
Of the 35 goals that Bitar conceded this season, 16 were in the four losses to the big three. This means that almost half of the goals that the team conceded came in those games, so even if the Aboksis team does not win tonight, it must at least improve this dismal figure a little. "The time has come. "Beitar will take points against the big teams," said Aboxis, "it's more difficult for us against the big teams, because they always come to us more prepared and organized."
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