Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Hapoel Beer Sheva 0:1 (Sport 1)
Six league games that Djorja Jovanovic did not score.
This is the longest drought of the Serbian striker since he was bought by Maccabi Tel Aviv about a year ago.
It should be noted that during the last month and a half in which he did not score in the league, the Serbian scored a brace in the victory over Maccabi Petah Tikva in the first game of the quarter-finals of the State Cup, but for someone who already has 15 goals this season in the three frameworks in Israel, the negative streak within the league is unusual.
Jovanovic's last goals in the league were in Aitor Karanka's first game as a coach against MS.
Ashdod at the beginning of last month, when he scored a double in a 0:3 victory.
Immediately after the match the other day, Kranka gave his support to Amal Ljuvanovic at the press conference and said: "I will always want a player like him in my team."
Maccabi Tel Aviv is convinced that the striker's drought will end soon and according to estimates, he will also start on Saturday against the Ness Ziona section.
In yesterday's game, Jovanovic was replaced relatively early in the game, in order to make room for Rarsh Ilya.
Most likely, Kranka will return to two strikers at the start of the game on Saturday, and Maccabi Tel Aviv believes that it is only a matter of time until the Serbian scores again and that from all the tests they are doing against him, there is no problem here that he feels, but only bad luck as was the case with the striker's two strikes in the first half against Hapoel Beer Sheva, who passed near the beam.
Here it comes.
Jovanovich against Hapoel Beer Sheva (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
Maccabi Tel Aviv gave the players a day off today.
Karanka already talked to them in the dressing room in Bloomfield and asked to enjoy the victory and draw confidence from it, but to learn from what happened after the victory over Maccabi Haifa.
This matter is firmly in the mind of the professional team, and the team hopes that the players have learned their lesson and will not miss the additional opportunity they have to stick to Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Beer Sheva.
An official at the club said this morning: "After Maccabi Haifa, we experienced a big drop in quality as well as seriousness and alertness, and we paid for it with 7 points that we lost in three games."
The team hopes that this decline will not repeat itself and the coach talked about this with the players.
It is possible that Cranka will change his formation again on Saturday, since there is a high chance that Nir Bitton will not be available to him.
The brake was replaced in the second half against Beer Sheva because of what is defined as a wooden leg.
It is possible that Karanka will return to play with four players in the back line against Nes Ziona.
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