Maccabi Tel Aviv comes into this season's game with its back against the wall.
She is 8 points away from Maccabi Haifa, and with a new coach who is still learning the team, and when she knows that any result except a victory will take the success of Kiryat Shalom very far away.
The two biggest stars of the teams arrive in great shape.
Zahavi came back wonderfully from the international break and is worth at least one goal per game.
Atzil, on the other hand, continues to provide great numbers, and he also brought 3 points to his team in the last round with an assist and a winning goal.
And when the two stars flourish, the game will be decided by the fight on the lines and in the center of the field.
As mentioned, Cranka is still getting into things.
He understands that at the moment he doesn't have two wing players in good shape to switch to 4:3:3, but he seems to be less connected to a formation of three brakes.
Aitor Kranka.
Will he surprise in this season's game?, Photo: Danny Maron
When he doesn't have two defenders burning the lines, he is exposed in the sensitive areas between the defender and the brake, exactly the places that Atzili and Haziza enjoy entering.
At Teddy, after Lucassen's dismissal, Karanka moved to 4:3:2.
It will be interesting to see if he will continue with a 4 line with two strikers, or if he will create a formation similar to the one Bacher has started with in recent weeks and try to change on the fly.
Bacher also had to play with three natural brakes due to constraints and injuries.
The absence of Sondgren and Corno greatly affects his flexibility, and the replacements are far from the level of the players in the lineup.
Bacher often likes in season games to surprise and change on the fly, and it is much less comfortable for him that Sondgren is not 100% fit, because he is the one who allowed the transitions from line 5 to line 4. It will be interesting to see how Bacher will prepare for a coach he knows less and it will be much more difficult for him to watch him.
Barak Bacher
You have to expect everything, photo: Alan Shiver
In terms of players, one of the interesting struggles will be in the center of the field between Muhammad and Lavi, and two of the three Peretz/Glaser/Golsa, who should give Gloch the freedom to do his magic in the farewell game before going to Salzburg.
In Ivić's great years, the yellows crushed the greens in the center with Glazer and Peretz.
Bacher understood this perfectly, and the most important thing he did at Maccabi Haifa was to strengthen the center with Lavi, Mohamed, Rodrigues and the professional upgrade of Abu Fani.
In fact, this is how he balanced the forces in the middle and some would say that he also reversed the creation.
Dan Glazer and Muhammad Abu Fani.
There will be a fascinating battle in Bloomfield, photo: Maor Alxalsi
If Haifa dreams of victory in Bloomfield, it owes the excellence of Mohamed, similar to his great games in the Champions League qualifiers, and of Lavi, in his farewell game.
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