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Sad but satisfied: Maccabi Tel Aviv's victory was grim. Right now it's enough - voila! sport

2023-02-21T12:13:29.150Z


Maccabi Tel Aviv's football is still dismal, and the victory is a swallow that doubtless heralds the coming of spring, and still - factually, it is back to the championship picture and that's what counts


Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Hapoel Beer Sheva 0:1 (Sport 1)

At the end of December 2015, Hapoel Beer Sheva arrived in Bloomfield.

This happened after a heartbreaking streak against Maccabi Tel Aviv, which culminated in a 6:2 defeat in the cup final half a year before and continued with a 1:0 "home" loss at Teddy at the start of the season.

Everything was ready for another Tel Aviv concert that would bury Beer Sheva's championship ambitions, but Eliniv Barda had other plans.

Already in the third minute, he nailed the ball into Frederag Raykovich's net and, together with Maor Malikson, led his team to a 1:2 victory, which in retrospect turned out to be the turning point on the way to the championship.



Barda had a chance to do the same last night, this time as a coach.

Beer Sheva has not beaten Maccabi Tel Aviv away in the league since the last championship of 2017/18.

With all due respect, for the victory in the semi-finals of the cup last year, when she was four points away from Maccabi Haifa, with an almost perfect record away from home, against an insecure opponent who is unable to score, this was her opportunity to make a statement, to establish a position.

She failed, and not only in the result test.



All the Be'er Shevaim demons surfaced in this game: feelings of inferiority, nervousness, offensive sterility.

Let's say that the strange goal in extra time had been approved - and there is no doubt that it would have given Beer Sheva a tremendous boost - would it have made a difference?

Would it protest the poor ability, the miserable pace, the suffocation in most stages of the game?

Would that have erased the feeling that she didn't really want to be an actor in this fight?



In the bottom line, the result does justice to Hapoel Beer Sheva, and not because Maccabi Tel Aviv so deserved to win, but because Maccabi Tel Aviv so deserved to lose.

Missed an opportunity to close a circle.

Barda (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

Two days ago it was written here in the rulings that Maccabi Tel Aviv is not a candidate for the championship even if they win.

It is likely that these words did not go down well with the team's fans.

On a factual level, they are right, after all, all three leaders look bad and Maccabi Tel Aviv is the only one among them that took points this week.

The gap from Maccabi Haifa is a little more than a game and a half?

She's been in worse movies before.



And yet, even now, when it is five points away from the champion and a point from Be'er Sheva, and even when both lack ability and confidence, Maccabi Tel Aviv is not a candidate for winning.

Not right now, at least.

Yesterday's victory is a swallow, but spring is still hard to see behind it.

The ability was not fundamentally different from the one the team presented during the last month, not even the anemia and lack of concentration of Jovanovic and the outbursts in the game of Parfa Giagon, who is currently collapsing under the expectations of being the next thing.



Still, there is good news here, because Maccabi Tel Aviv is back to win.

For the first time without Oscar Gloch, for the first time a "real" victory for the coach who performed better than his opponent.

Will there be continuity here?

We'll see.

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Not candidates for the championship yet.

Maccabi Tel Aviv celebrates a victory (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

Aitor Kranka started this time with Gabi Kanikowski on the bench.

Since Gloch left, Knikowski has become a permanent fixture.

Yesterday the Spaniard benched him for the first time.

After entering he had two decent actions and then he disappeared again.



These are not easy days for Kanikowski, who is supposed to be one of the key players of Maccabi Tel Aviv in this period.

With the arrival of Rarsh Ilya, the competition increased and he will have to force his way into the lineup.

In his second season as a mature player in the club where he grew up, Kanikovski is mainly identified with Maccabi Tel Aviv of the spot successes.

Last year he was the man who inflicted Beer Sheva's first loss with a winning goal in Bloomfield.

Yesterday he entered as a substitute who did not contribute at all.

He is not the only player on the team who does not exhaust his abilities, but he is one of those whose drastic improvement in his ability may bring the team to other provinces.



Ilya, by the way, showed sparks when he entered, it is obvious that he has abilities.

He didn't stand out either, understandably.

As far as Maccabi Tel Aviv is concerned, the possibility of setting up both of them as replacements is excellent news, if we only remember the poor bench with offensive options it had against Hapoel Tel Aviv and Bnei Sakhnin.

must produce change.

Kanikovski in front of Helder Lopes (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

In the midst of the February threat, Maccabi Haifa can be satisfied.

If after such a terrible month she is still leading the table by more than a game, she is in a good position.

Despite everything, Barak Becher knows there is no place to be calm.

On Saturday, Maccabi Tel Aviv meets Ness Ziona in Petah Tikva, and it can be estimated that they will get out of the away game funk that accompanies them and take the points.

All of this will happen just before the champions meet at home the stubborn Beitar Jerusalem of Yossi Abouxis. On Monday, Beer Sheva will host Bnei Rayna. It is not impossible that at the end of this cycle the gap at the top will be two or three points. Then, only then, will it really be



possible Talk about a championship fight here.

  • sport

  • Israeli soccer

  • Super League

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  • Maccabi Tel Aviv

  • Hapoel Beer Sheva

Source: walla

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