Summary of Maccabi Haifa's victory 1:2 over MS.
Ashdod (Sport 1)
There is no more cliche but true than "luck of champions".
What happened to Maccabi Haifa yesterday was mostly luck, before and after the upheaval.
Her real luck was that Josh Cohen was at her gate.
Josh Cohen has an amazing record: he has stopped 8 penalties out of the 20 kicked to him in the league since he started playing here.
40 percent success, that's amazing.
Since Viktor Chanov, Maccabi Haifa has not had such a penalty stop.
Chanov stopped two penalties by Itzik Zohar and Nir Klinger against Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Ramat Gan Stadium, two periods to go, in Maccabi Haifa's doubles season in 1991, and who knows what would have happened if Chanov had not stopped.
If Josh Cohen hadn't been there for Hamudi Kanaan's penalty (what was wrong with Ekoltsa who scored earlier?), it is not clear how it would have ended and how Maccabi Haifa would have reached their season game against Hapoel Beer Sheva on April 1st.
Because in terms of ability, Haifa doesn't really warn, but in terms of luck (making a change with 10 players) and points (still 4 difference),
And there is another thing that Haifa has to be careful of: against defensive teams, it has trouble scoring, but in the end it scores.
Against teams that play football, like MS Ashdod, it is in trouble, certainly if it has to play almost a whole game with 10 players, but even with 11, Ashdod celebrated it.
This is also a call of direction to Eliniv in Barda and the worker in Beer Sheva.
In order to return to a real championship fight - and threaten first place - she will have to play football in two weeks that is based on controlling what is happening and not just on quick bursts.
She will have to play like Ashdod played and she has even bigger tools to win.
The problem is that the social gathering of the Haifa players after the tie only indicates that they understand very well what they are fighting for.
Sometimes, during the season, it seemed like they were just passing the time.
Yesterday, it seems, it ended.
in Chanov's shoes.
Josh Cohen (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)
Eliniv Barda and Hapoel Beer Sheva play every game like a cup final.
Not as a cliché, but as a reality.
In the dressing room and in front of the media they will also say it, every game is a small final.
Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, and what we will remember from this great season is that Roni Levy also played like this when he was a coach before Breda.
You have to win a championship and you have to play like champions.
If the Hapoel BS fans have become fans of success - and I really doubt if this is true - then the path will not change for them. If not, it is really doubtful if they are having fun.
Beer Sheva played in many parts through the middle yesterday. Hapoel Jerusalem is not that weak (even yesterday) You can find cracks in her through the center. Against a team that defends most of the time, they play through the wings and there were many cases when Beer Sheva insisted through the middle, and that's how the goal came. Ansa, based on his dismal numbers, is not the man to base the review on, but yesterday it was successful. Imagine Do you think he would have missed, as in most cases?
Be'er Sheva has wonderful tools even when Ramsey Spori is injured, but it always seems that the blanket is short.
Gordana and Micah are in the lineup - two of the best morals in the league - so Elias and Shamir act as Dan Glazers and in attack the flop Kalimela is waiting and next to him is Ansa whose finish (a goal on average every 5 games) we have already talked about.
So Breda likes players who work, which is true, but the perfect balance is to find players who work as well as produce.
As Hapoel Jerusalem played yesterday for Ziv Aryeh's mistakes, which he also admitted, 0-1 from Ansa's goal, a cause for concern.
And on the sidelines of this game, the question arises as to what the limits of VAR are.
Will a hand raised in the first system shoot in the third?
In the new jurisdictional rules, a foul is sometimes ruled after giving an advantage, in the second round.
The hand that denied Shafi Suleimanov the goal was waved half a court away, three moves earlier.
Imagine a move for a goal that starts with a handball in the area on one side - which the referee and linesman and also the VAR do not see in the first shot - and ends with a goal on the other side after 5-6 passes, the goal will be disallowed and a penalty awarded on the other side?
What are the true limits of the VAR?
After the stormy Saturday
Maccabi Haifa celebrates: "The biggest league victory in the Becher era"
Beer Sheva thinks about this season's game: Breda
Geraldes' plan: "The squad is good enough, we should have brought more"
Every game is like a cup final.
Shay Elias (Photo: Danny Maron)
Aitor Kranka did something yesterday.
He benched Gabi Kanikowski and replaced him with Dan Beaton.
What seemed like an end-of-season move, letting the bench players play, turned out to be a season-changing move.
As we know, Maccabi Tel Aviv can still win the state cup and is also the top team in the semi-finals.
Cranka really did a selfish action.
Until yesterday, Dan Beaton had played 187 minutes in 9 games in all competitions this season, 21 minutes on average.
Fifth spare at best.
In the league he played 97 minutes.
In recent weeks, Karanka let him play.
Against Maccabi Petah Tikva in the quarterfinals, he scored in one game and scored in the other.
Karanka took him out of the season opener and gave him minutes.
Beaton arrived at Maccabi Tel Aviv when Yorgos Donis was appointed to the position.
Came with high expectations from Ludogorets, not just a team in European football.
Patrick van Leeuwen froze the project.
He played with three killers in the link.
Bitton seemed too gentle to him.
When you gave him credit, he paid back in numbers.
He finished the previous two seasons with 9 assists (in all settings) each.
It is much.
Bitton has everything: game vision, the ability to identify the free players and free kicks with his left foot - like the one yesterday - at such a level that even Eran Zahavi gives them up.
And Eran Zahavi does not give up almost anything.
It is not clear how and when it was decided that Gabi Kanikowski, who played 642 minutes in the last ten league games, started eight and scored only two goals in this entire period, is the option to replace Oskar Gloch, and perhaps Farfa Goyagon who scored a goal and scored a goal in the last ten league games until yesterday.
Without detracting from the other two, Karanka found Beaton.
It was enough for a half and no more, but also for a goal and an assist.
Don't know if Dan Beaton and Karanka will stay next season, but this move kept Maccabi Tel Aviv in the frame until the end.
And if it determines who will win the championship, then Dan Beaton will probably have a part in it.
More in Walla!
Karanka is determined to exercise his contract for next season at Maccabi Tel Aviv.
The results will decide
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Out of the poster.
Dan Beaton (Photo: Bernie Ardov)
One of the problems with the system of upper and lower playoffs is that the upper playoffs get teams that have nothing to play for (certainly if they have a cup semi-final in a month and a half) and the lower playoffs drop teams even if they don't show up for games until the end of the season, and suffer technical losses, they won't go down .
So what are you playing?
Yesterday we saw Netanya continue the line of finishing the regular league and immediately disgrace its previous achievements.
Total nullification.
Hapoel Jerusalem released great banners in the media department, as if the season is over, that's how it looks.
MS Ashdod is different because it's Maccabi Haifa, and because you fear the situation - 28 thousand people in the stands, a deadly team in front - you drain yourself of energy.
Hapoel Hadera stumbled yesterday against Nes Ziona, and more at home.
A hard feeling of games that, as time goes by, will become less relevant.
And there is no football fan who does not want his team to remain relevant, certainly at the point where he can relax in a folding chair in the stands, and try to enjoy himself for 60 shekels plus commission.
The luck is that Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Tel Aviv are playing in the same playoffs, a great luck that it is also in the lower playoffs. I doubt if there will be another game until the end of the season in the lower playoffs that will bring 9,000 spectators, like yesterday at Teddy. The bad luck of Hapoel Tel Aviv, which is in danger of relegation, And she had to meet Beitar Jerusalem yesterday, who lost to her and Sakhnin in the last two rounds of the regular league.
You don't need the fraternal war in the streets to understand what these losses mean for Beitar Jerusalem fans. In other words: Hapoel Tel Aviv didn't have a chance yesterday. Still, maybe they actually had a chance,
if Roy Reinschreiber had sent the goalkeeper to an early shower Miguel de Silva, but not him (from a distance of a meter) and especially not the VAR referee Shlomi Ben Avraham, thought that the shoulder that Otzma de Silva put in the face of Omar Senior, was worth a dismissal.
The role of referees - and Roy Reinschreiber is in my opinion the best referee in Israel - is to protect the health of the players, certainly when it comes to head injuries.
Ben Avraham didn't even call him to the video screen, to think again, and it doesn't matter at all (even though it's obvious) if it was a shoulder or a chest.
It would look like a punch to the face.
Beitar deservedly won, but justice was not done to Hapoel Tel Aviv.
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