For four days I walked around muttering to myself "Oh la la la la" and "Did you know that parfait is also perfect in French?"
Remembering the great victory against Haifa.
As if that wasn't enough for me, then the statistics also started to straighten out, and Haifa finished with a home draw against Rayna and gave us a chance to bite it a little more.
But the bucket kick was in the air.
No need to grieve, it was quite expected.
Every season we throw a tie at Hapoel just because this game is called a derby.
It was decreed to us as part of the deal we made with Satan that they have not seen a red victory for 3,200 days.
One can only hope that we are done with them for this season and that they will be forgotten in the depths of the lower playoffs.
Einbinder with Peretz, yesterday in Jaffa, photo: Alan Shiver
The preparation for the game was mainly characterized by the party-goal around the signing of the young magician in Salzburg.
Every time a player leaves us for Europe, my feeling oscillates between pride and the feeling that we are Maccabi FC of Europe. Sweet and sour. One thing was clear to us fans, Maccabi could not afford to lose the player with the most outstanding personal data in the league, without organizing on A worthy replacement.
On a story level, something had to bring us down to earth.
On an emotional level, it reminded me of Brazil giving four in the round of 16 of the World Cup and then flying in the fourth in a draw against Croatia.
Thus, those who thought after the last game that Hope Maccabi had found the right lineup, all the potential is going to be realized and it will explode on the league, received a lesson in modesty.
A private math lesson costs about NIS 120, training with a personal fitness trainer ranges from NIS 150 - 250, private lessons for a substitute coach, well, we are already costing in the second draw in four games.
The Hapoel players at the end.
Do they deserve to be happy?, Photo: Alan Shiver
Gently I will say, Karanka should have reacted faster to what we saw on the grass, or rather - we didn't see.
90 minutes of pretty much nothing, in a European and electrifying atmosphere in the stands.
Like entering a Michelin restaurant, not enjoying the food, and still paying a very high price.
In the previous derby, we spent two hours or so of game breaks due to throwing flares and balls on the grass, until the first goal, and there were still more incidents than Maccabi's Bardak yesterday.
After the farces around "Pendallllllll. Okay actually no", and the "Pendal and Red!!!!!, sorry, no", I thought that something or someone would be able to redeem us and we would win, but it was not our day.
We missed an opportunity to improve positions.
Just let's not talk about this point as "fatal".
Flares in the stands of Maccabi.
In the procedure, photo: Alan Shiver
I really have no complaints about the coach who is not yet familiar with the league here, and twice had to play with 10 players.
He will have to learn quickly that most of Maccabi's games in the league are like this, against teams that don't come to show football but to get through the game safely (to Hapoel's credit, they came very prepared yesterday).
The main concern is that by the time he figures out how to create solutions, the league will be over for him.
Yes, I have complaints about the system.
Hey wake up, it's time to strengthen the group.
The championship title also goes through players purchased in January and this should not be underestimated.
Zahavi and Pritza came in 12/13 and the rest is history, Barak Badash scored a double against BS in the season game of the 13/14 season and helped us a little to get the title and the mascot(!) Nikolic came in 18/19 and brought endless titles with him .
Jovanovic.
Big misses, photo: Alan Shiver
This season, which started somewhere when I was a student in the second grade (the game against Nice in the Conference League feels 100 years ago to me), illustrates how difficult it is to build a squad and character for a champion team again.
There are no freebies anywhere.
On Wednesday there is already a trophy, on Saturday Sakhnin is at home.
There is nothing more important than 3 points in the second game
were we wrong
We will fix it!
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