Summary of the State Cup: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Maccabi Petah Tikva 0:4 (Sport1)
As against MS.
In Ashdod's first game as the team's coach, also tonight against Bnei Sakhnin (17:30, Sport4), Aitor Karanka will have to decide whether to play Dor Peretz in the game and especially whether to start with him in the lineup.
In the game against Ashdod, Karanka decided not to use Peretz because he had 4 yellow cards and another yellow in the game would have prevented him from playing against Maccabi Haifa in the season game about two weeks ago.
The coach kept Peretz on the bench, Maccabi Tel Aviv easily beat Ashdod and Peretz played in the lineup in the season's game against Maccabi Haifa and was one of the standouts in the big win in Bloomfield.
However, since then Peretz has not received a fifth yellow card and he again arrives this Saturday with the same four yellows and with a new danger for Maccabi Tel Aviv: a yellow tonight and he will not play in another huge game that awaits Maccabi Tel Aviv in two weeks against Hapoel Beer Sheva.
Karanka and Maccabi Tel Aviv know this fact very well and from the coach's point of view this is a renewed dilemma, since Peretz is one of the best in Maccabi Tel Aviv and his presence on the field is necessary as a player who creates the balance between defense and attack in the center of the field, retrieves balls and leads them forward towards the front.
It is doubtful whether Karanka will want to risk himself and Peretz with a fifth yellow tonight, and hence, even though he broke into the squad, the assessment is that the coach will act as he did in his first game as the team's coach four weeks ago and will not take the risk that the midfielder will receive a fifth yellow and will not be available to Maccabi Tel Aviv against Hapoel Beer Sheva.
Karanka will not want to lose him against Beer Sheva.
Dor Peretz (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
Cranka has a variety of options to solve the dilemma he has.
Eyal Golsa started in the State Cup on Wednesday against Maccabi Petah Tikva, he was good and there is no reason to let him continue in the eleven alongside Dan Glazer.
The coach can also decide to assign Gabi Kanikowski to a more rear position next to Glazer and play forward with Yonatan Cohen or Avi Ricken next to Parfa Giagon who should return to the eleven after an injury.
As mentioned, the Basque coach has several options, and we still need to see first that he chooses, as he did against Ashdod, to leave Peretz on the bench tonight.
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