The best - Aitor Kranka
Maccabi Tel Aviv came into this season's game with their backs against the wall after losing the two points with ten players in Teddy, which increased the gap from Maccabi Haifa to eight points. Aitor Karanka, a coach who developed under Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid (where they played almost regularly with a defensive quartet) and from there Started an independent career, joined a team that had been running since the beginning of the year in a lineup of 3 brakes and did not want to make drastic moves in his first days on the job. Fate wanted it, and in the last game at Teddy Lucassen was sent off and Maccabi Tel Aviv went to 4:3:2 and looked not bad at all, definitely offensive, sure In relation to a team that plays 2/3 of a game with one less player.
So for the match against Maccabi Haifa, Karanka went with his truth and started with a defensive four.
Savorit joined Piven in the center and Davidzadeh and Geraldesh complete them on the sides.
Above them was a debate about how to arrange the front six.
4:3:3 is out of the question, because the wing players in the squad at the moment are not up to par or in good shape and the two best strikers in the league are playing above them.
So Karanka solved the dilemma in a very tactically smart way, and made a brilliant move that won him the game and provided the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans with their team's best game of the season.
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Won on the lines, photo: Alan Shiver
Karanka started with 4:2:2:2, with Peretz and Glazer (he seems to have a lot of faith in him and he is his man in the center of the pitch) as back midfielders, Gloch and Goyagon above them and Zahavi and Jovanovic on the wing.
The car is full of technical quality with a lot of power in the center.
And this ensemble came together perfectly.
Goyagon and Gloch wobbled to their delight (in a completely unsurprising way, which only intensifies the miss of Ivić who hardly started together with them) and dismantled the link of Maccabi Haifa.
Zahavi continued his great form since the national team's return from the hiatus, and Maccabi Tel Aviv danced on the grass and defeated Maccabi Haifa in a wonderful football display that reopened the championship fight.
So it is true that the big diamond of the Yellows is leaving (I will touch on that later), but the great display of Goyagon, the good entry of Kanikowski into the game, the ability of the two strikers and especially the tactical pragmatism of Karanka, can greatly encourage the people of Maccabi Tel Aviv and make it clear to everyone that the fight for the title is open Absolutely, and Maccabi Haifa will have to work very hard and maybe even add a player or two to the squad, in order to win a third championship in a row.
Maccabi players celebrating, photo: Alan Shiver
The excellent - Oskar Gluch to Red Bull Salzburg
in the 29th round of the 21/22 season, April 11, 2022, Laden Karstaich took Oskar Gluch, an extraordinary talent from 2004, still without a second in the Premier League, and told him that from now on he would play until the end of the season .
The opponent was Maccabi Haifa and in the 28th minute Gloch scored his debut goal, which, if not for Sheri's free kick in the 90th minute, would have been a winning goal as well.
Since then, not only in Israel have they realized that Gloch is a once-in-a-generation talent, when he took the youth team to the final of the European Championship, where he also scored a rare and beautiful goal, which may not have been enough to lift the trophy, but turned a bright spotlight in his direction from scouts all over the continent.
In the end, Gloch chose Red Bull Salzburg as his first stop in Europe.
The team just recently released players such as Erling Holland, Karim Adeyemi (both to Dortmund), Brandon Aronson (Leeds) and if we go further back, also Dominik Sobozlai to Leipzig and Peston Daka to Leicester.
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Yesterday, photo: Alan Shiver
Salzburg is a perfect club for youth development that combines a pressing and ultra-attacking style of play, with a diamond formation - classic for Oscar.
A young and talented coach, the German Matthias Yessel, year 88 (I didn't think I would use yearbooks for coaches), who grew up in the Red Bull Academy in various positions from 2014 and coaches the senior team from July 2021. Salzburg is already a permanent member of the Champions League and dominates the Austrian league, which allows It is a comfortable place for the young players to develop and grow and it is a great place for Gloch to continue his development as a player on the way to perhaps heights that no Israeli player has reached, because in his case, the sky is really the limit.
Salzburg representatives.
Yesterday in Bloomfield, photo: Alan Shiver
The bad - "candidate"
Assaf Niemani started the season well, but it was clear from the first moment that he depends on braking.
An assistant coach who was promoted to the position of coach, not because they built him and believed in him, but because the coach they planned to bring in regretted and he was just there (this is also reflected in the salary slip).
When you come to the position of coach in such a weak position, your chances of survival are zero even if you start with a few wins.
What increased the farce, was that one of the announced candidates to replace Niemani, was Sharon Mimer, whose time at Reina seems to be limited, but he is currently still an active coach in a team that plays in the same league.
And this again brings us back to the unbearable ease with which coaches move from team to team here, coaching several teams in the same season (mostly the success percentages do not increase, both for the coach and for the teams) and this is a terrible thing for anyone who loves the industry.
The Football Association should intervene with the help of regulation to make the clubs start to grow and invest in coaches in the youth departments, not only in players, and above all to stop the circus of changing coaches during the season.
One of the ways is to prevent coaches from working for two teams that play in the same league in one year.
Other ways are compensation for teams that promote coaches from the youth departments to work in the senior team, payment to the coach who is fired until the end of the season and a high minimum wage for coaches in the professional leagues, because as soon as you pay a coach a ridiculous salary and say that you are doing it because you are giving him a chance, it is not really an opportunity and in the first crisis he will leave home
Such a situation hurts the teams and more importantly, hurts the development of the young talents in our football.
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This time he was the one who paid the price, photo: Alan Shiver
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