Summary of the game: Beitar Jerusalem - Maccabi Tel Aviv 2:2 (Sport1)
Aitor Karanka looked and sounded yesterday (Monday) as if he had fallen into an accident of his own accord.
His career got stuck a little, a little a lot, and he came to pass the time in Israel until his agent found him someone who speaks real Spanish or English.
In the meantime, he stands in this freezing cold and has to explain why Oskar Gluch still needs to learn from Eran Zahavi, and how much he has only been here for two weeks and is still learning.
Hello, 8 difference!
Yesterday, Karanka submitted the championship to Maccabi Haifa, when he doesn't even know who Maccabi Haifa is they are talking about.
He did not have an orderly overlap process and many pages were torn out of the study material that was submitted to him.
Karanka feels that he saved the game yesterday at Teddy, but no one explains to him that next week he will be playing against a real football team, two numbers bigger than the one that played against him yesterday.
In fact, Lucassen's sending off (which was doubtless justified. There was no attempt to fumble here, but a failed attempt to remove a player from a possession position) saved the game for him.
Until then, he was stuck in a formation of three brakes that move the ball almost to the middle of the opponent's half of the field, two completely unnecessary wing-back players who do not find their place and midfielders who fail to participate in the game of moving the ball, because they get lost in the density created by Beitar in the center of its defense , in which she pounced on the ball with the aim of rescuing it and launching passing attacks. And Bitar was unable to launch passing attacks at all, with the exception of the incident when Shua sent Asperia to Mautz against Lucassen.
And from there everything became clear.
As soon as Kranka realized he was down to ten men with five defenders on paper, he was quick to make the substitution.
It was a bit frustrating to see that Yonatan Cohen is classified as a wing-back only (that's not why they return to Israel from Serie B), but he preferred to bring in Dor Peretz as a stopper.
unclear.
After all, if he is looking for players who will move the ball quickly, including brakes, why leave Dan Glazer on the field, who moving the ball is not one of his outstanding qualities to say the least.
From this moment on, Maccabi Tel Aviv - with ten players - was able to expand its game and discover the wings.
Two strike goals, as a result of wide elevations, indicate that there was a game plan here from the beginning, but few means.
After all, you don't need to see Yossi Abouxis' regular game plan - pressure in the middle third of his formation and a quick passing game through the three attacking players - but to see the number of goals conceded this season by Beitar Jerusalem. This is not an empire - a huge field and a large crowd that has Also to Sevilla from the bottom of the Spanish league - but in a club that until a few months ago was still considered to be dismantled.
Next week a real football team will play against him.
Crank (Photo: Danny Maron)
It is impossible not to be amazed at the way Yossi Abouxis turned Beitar Jerusalem into a team in his image and likeness. In the summer, with a squad that was limited even to the national league, he began to build his character, created his amazing attacking triangle - Shua, Nicolasco and Esperia - and cast Abouxi football Which is light years away from the vibrant and creative Beitar football, but can be no less exciting, when things go well in attack.
Beitar is currently in the highest place among the league's teams. It is doing this after a managerial upheaval and a budget deficit, and it is ahead of Maccabi Netanya and Hapoel Haifa, who are stable in terms of management, certainly ahead of Hapoel Tel Aviv, which still has to go through this upheaval this summer and now, on The current management Edi looks like she will arrive dismantled by the deadline.
Beitar will not be as rich as in the days of Gaidamek or as desirable as in the days of Dadash, but it is once again a legitimate team in Israeli football, which should be mentioned: soon it will send 5 teams to Europe and not 4.
Yordan Shua does with Yossi Abouxis what talents greater than him do not do with other coaches: he becomes a powerful, exciting player, one for whom you buy a ticket.
Aboxis became a striker with great control of the ball, a playmaker of the type he was, who could with one pass slip put a player in a possession situation.
He turned Shua from a Yovanovitch-style striker into a pivot player like Eran Levy, with accurate passes of 40-50 meters.
The heel jump over Nir Bitton yesterday only showed what he knows how to do with the ball in a small area, even before he does with it in a large area.
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became a powerful and exciting player.
Shoa (Photo: Danny Maron)
Eran Zahavi saved Maccabi Tel Aviv yesterday from a loss.
Not the changes of Karanka, not the touch of Gloch, not the porous defense of Beitar. Eran Zahavi. There is no striker in Israel who is as diverse as him, we knew that before, but we forgot something that the bad tongues established: that he disturbs the team and wants the ball to him So no, when he reaches the cross first and hits the net twice, it's taking advantage of an opportunity. Zahavi scored 45 strike goals in his career (there are many players who don't reach that amount with his right foot), but only three doubles: for Liheuning in 2017 in the Chinese league, for Austria with Sami Ofer In 2019 and yesterday. He already has 16 goals since the start of the season in all formats, just one less than Azili, and he has nine goals in the last seven games in all formats.
He is back.
He is 35.5 years old.
A phenomenon.
Nine goals in the last seven games.
Zahavi (Photo: Danny Maron)
As mentioned, Maccabi Haifa is the biggest beneficiary of yesterday's draw at Teddy and the rain that stopped Beer Sheva's game in Doha.
Now she has a psychological advantage.
A draw in Bloomfield on Monday and there is nothing to talk about with her, even a loss will not bring her closer to losing the championship.
But do you see Maccabi Haifa losing?
A team that wins, and not convincingly, 11 games in a row in the league, that Chaziza and Sondgren and Tobinsika return to its ranks from injuries, that succeeds in Netta Lavi's move to Japan like a big one - will you lose?
And for whom?
With all of Zahavi's comeback and Jovanovic's strengths, and Gloch's wonderful touch (who according to his coach still needs to improve like Zahavi), Maccabi Tel Aviv is a team that is less than the sum of its parts, while Haifa is greater than the sum of its parts.
This game will be decided by a coach.
Either Barak Becher will perpetuate his control over Israeli football, or Karanka will learn Israeli football, Maccabi Haifa, the goals set before him and Barak Becher in a few days - and win here.
Great players will not be enough to beat Maccabi Haifa, but it will be requested that Maccabi Haifa does not appear in the game, so that a clear advantage prevails that will decide it.
To date, Maccabi Haifa has lost to Rayna, Hapoel Jerusalem and Apollon Limassol, PSG, Benfica and Juventus.
Three groups inferior to it and three groups greater than it.
Maccabi Haifa does not lose to teams of its level.
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