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The last survivor: Eran Zahavi and Maccabi Tel Aviv showed superiority over Maccabi Haifa Israel today

2023-01-24T08:32:37.385Z


After everyone had deceived themselves that the team from Carmel was several levels above the league, Cranka and the group of warriors came and met the critical task • The knock-out knock, Bacher and his players will not forget for a long time • Now, just bring the derby • We have an open account from basketball 


In one evening, Maccabi Tel Aviv turned from filth to Cinderella.

These were 18 rounds of "as if". Week after week, bluff and more bluff. When I was asked "what is Maccabi's problem", I made sure to claim that there was nothing special, except for the hysterical rate of points that Haifa mystically achieved completely.

It should be honestly stated that Maccabi did everything, but everything, to make it difficult for itself in this half of the season.

The line-up of the 3 brakes is not much to compliment us to say the least, the rhythm and the joy of life were lost even when we won and the media coverage surrounding the events of the escape of Fritza and Ivic and the offers to flee from all over Europe created a mess.

Add to all of this the spice of "no championship" for two years and the pressure cooker will explode by itself.

A flood of troubles, a sort of unhappiness for nothing.

On the other side stood Haifa, who for half a season reminded me of the character of Nelson "Big head" Bigati from the Silicon Valley series.

For the benefit of those who don't know - this is a guy without talent who time after time, miraculously, gets to receive a significant promotion in a huge company (think Google).

It was clear to everyone that her results did not reflect reality, in my opinion, even to her fans.

Deception of the justification of sin.

Maccabi players celebrating, photo: Alan Shiver

That way, somehow, the gap in the table between the teams was 8(!) difference on the eve of the game, when Haifa may not be scary but still equipped with the most experienced and decorated Israeli coach in recent times, and opposite him is a rather pleasant Branesh, who speaks in a way that is pleasant to the ear, maybe even too much, and at every moment Naton seems to be ready to go on a tourist trip to the Golan Heights.

The rivalry between the two teams has been well maintained in recent years.

This sport has become the "game" of the country in the last 4 years, and it is not for nothing that fans in networks offer a night in a B&B or an iPhone in exchange for a ticket to the game.

The kind of games where you get a message from dad a few minutes before the opening whistle: "The heart is with you", and outside the stadium shouts of "Tickets for gate 2 only at my place" were replaced by shouts of "Who's selling?".

Honestly, at certain stages, and certainly before last night's game, I feared that the tragic script that was built for us for the 2022/3 season would have no holes.

that this balloon has not burst yet.

Luckily, last night I discovered that it wasn't the script that changed, but the genre.

We have moved from a tragedy film to a television genre that is not scripted and records real events, and in which the actors do not play a fictitious character but appear as themselves or in short - a reality show.

The yellows celebrate a justified advantage, photo: Alan Shiver

The Maccabi clan has prepared itself well for the mission of its last chance at survival, with Dan Glazer being the living spirit and Eran Zahavi, who else, is the executor.

Don't want to go into names anymore - everyone's perfect game.

On the green side, they dressed nicely and came to enjoy an evening of Dancing with the Stars starring Parfae Goyagon and Oskar Gloch.

Pierre, understands them.

In Agat, the fans like to define such a victory as "resounding", because it is not only the 3 pieces that Maccabi put in the net of Haifa.

These were 90 minutes of poison in the eyes, endless superiority against Haifa that did not exist.

There was not a single moment that I doubted the victory.

The most beautiful sounds in the game were the ones that were not heard from the 5-4 goals.

Everything fans want from a win over a title contender.

A 4-4-2 line formation created by Cranka (the prince in our parable) with the two diamonds in the composition is the glass shoe that was cast especially for Maccabi's measurements that became Cinderella.

Since the beginning of the season, we have been waiting for such attractive football, and we felt that we had the tools.

If there is something that makes me very happy about Cranka for now, it is the feeling that he believes in Maccabi (the club and the team) and its abilities, and he is not ashamed to show it for all to see.

After the sad letter I wrote to Ivic in the previous round, Cranka receives a bouquet of flowers.

And maybe some chocolate too.

Well, maybe also a purchase that will help him and us, because with all the fun of the moment, we need another striker and probably also a suitable replacement as possible for Gloch.

We came back to life.

golden

Above all, photo: Alan Shiver

On Saturday (praise be to God that we don't have to wait until Monday) the city rival is waiting for us, with the echoes of her victory over our basketball team the other day (it's like they won the Euroleague) illustrating her desire to do something similar in soccer, and after we won the previous derby with 5,000 people and 11 more players, this time We will face much more.

Cliché or not - but if we don't win there we didn't really do anything last night.

Just bring the derby.

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Source: israelhayom

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