Summary of the 1:1 match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa (Sport1)
There are many differences and gaps between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa, gaps much bigger than the ten points that separate them in the table.
If we ignore the huge gap that opened up between the amazing management of Yankela Shahar (in recent years) and the problematic management of Mitch Goldhar (in recent years), there are quite a few professional gaps between the clubs.
Maccabi Tel Aviv's draw against the champion from Haifa should only do them good.
A victory would still make the players dream of illusions that it is possible to win the championship, Goldhar would still believe that there is no need to make a revolution at the end of the season.
Maccabi Tel Aviv has a lot of problems (on the field, on the lines, and off the lawn), and in the game against the champion, some differences stood out that make the difference between Haifa and Tel Aviv.
Bacher controls his team, he doesn't.
Crank (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
We can continue to argue (in my opinion, the debate is over) which team among the first three has a better quality squad, which of them has more depth on the bench, who enjoys judgment errors more, and who loses more - but there is no debate about at least one thing.
Maccabi Tel Aviv is not a sufficiently trained team.
It can be said with certainty that Maccabi Haifa is a coach's team.
In the same way, it can be said that Hapoel Beer Sheva is a coach's team.
Becher and Breda dominate their group in an absolute way.
The imprint of their eye is felt in every position and move on the court.
They also make mistakes sometimes, but both have a method of play, they have logic in their formations, and both know how to manage the game well.
They read their team's game, they know the opponent well, they know how to make necessary changes, they are aware of dangers and they mostly know not to be in mental fixation.
Bacher invented it, and Berda learned to copy it.
If Bacher or Breda had coached Maccabi Tel Aviv in the second half of the game, it is likely that the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans would have celebrated at Bloomfield at the end of the game and sent the Haifa fans home humiliated.
After an excellent half in which Maccabi led, Karanka did not react properly to the changes made by Bacher.
In the 46th minute, Becher brought in Dolev Haziza and Dean David, the two, along with Atzili, danced in Daniel Peretz's area and almost every attack was worth a goal, and Karanka did not react the way Breda, for example, would have reacted.
And in the 60th minute he took out Dor Peretz, one of the only ones who was able to stop the machine that went to automatic.
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There was already momentum, which was lost.
And because of whom? (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
Becher didn't start the game well (the puzzling decision regarding Haziza who didn't start), and made changes in the second half that brought him a valuable point.
Karanka started the game well, but made quite a few mistakes in the second half.
He has been in Israel long enough to know the ability of Haifa, the qualities of Atzili, Haziza, Din David and who not.
He has been here long enough to know that Haifa is a champion in stationary situations, and he should have known that after so many misses (Haifa's situation) in the end the goal meets the net.
Cranka did not fall asleep.
He just didn't manage the second half well, he didn't react according to the weakness and shock of his players in the second half, and you didn't have to be a great expert in the field to understand that the equalizer would come.
And how it will arrive.
Unlike Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Beer Sheva stayed in the championship race not because it has a higher quality squad.
Nor because her players are hungrier.
Beer Sheva is still in the championship race because it has a coach.
A coach who knows how to react in time (mostly), a coach who knows how to take points even when his team is weak, a coach who knows what he wants.
Karanka couldn't get over the problem of how it is that sometimes his team shows the football of a championship team, and sometimes it shows the ability of a lower playoff team.
And we have seen these differences quite a bit this season in the games where Cranka is on the lines.
Against Maccabi Haifa it stood out in particular.
And maybe the problem is with Cranka himself.
Maybe, but not only.
We usually have a tendency to underestimate the coach's assistants.
Bacher has Jackie French whispering in his ear, Breda has Mallickson by his side.
Both know the league very well, both are close to the coach, and both give them tips non-stop.
Even in the area of whispers in the ear during the game, Becher and Barda have an advantage.
Sometimes Bacher behaves like a wise man and makes strange decisions, but to his credit he knows how to quickly recognize his own mistakes and react appropriately.
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Watch the summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Maccabi Haifa 1:1
Watch the summary: Hapoel Beer Sheva - MS.
Ashdod 1:3
Watch the summary: Maccabi Netanya - Hapoel Jerusalem 2:0
Knows how to respond, and is quick.
Bachar (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
In modern football, especially with the big teams, a good coach is a coach who is considered to know what game management is.
Many of the trainers know how to copy training plans, know how to speak, and even dress like a model.
But a coach with mental fixation cannot be creative.
A coach who does not know how to manage a game is not a tactician.
And such a coach is not able to bring to his team the added value that a coach should bring.
Bachar brings it non-stop, Breda reduces the gaps from it in giant strides.
On the assumption that Maccabi Haifa will win the championship (not yet certain), and on the assumption that Bakr will leave at the end of the season (almost a certainty already), Hapoel Be'er Sheva will become the number 1 candidate for the championship next season.
It will have the best coach in the league, an excellent team that will receive another upgrade, and the hunger for the championship will only increase.
There will be seventy in Haifa and it is not clear how they will overcome Bacher's departure, and in Kiryat Shalom (actually in Canada) it is difficult to see that the painful and necessary decisions are being made there.
And a note at the end that illustrates the whole difference between the great success of Haifa this season (also in the Champions League), and the failure of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
When Bogdan Palanich, possibly Haifa's most important player, left, Abdulai Sek's name was pulled from the register there.
When Oskar Gloch left, Maccabi landed Rarush Ilya.
Does anyone even remember Bogdan Palanich leaving?
Is there anyone who doesn't remember Gloch in every game?
This is exactly the difference between a club that is run by European standards and one that has lost European standards.
Even in the scout formation, Maccabi Haifa makes Maccabi a school.
Top playoff
Group
games
victories
draw
losses
gates
points
1
Maccabi Haifa
29
22
3
4
26-55
sixty nine
2
Hapoel Beer Sheva
29
20
4
5
21-56
64
3
Maccabi Tel Aviv
29
17
8
4
16-58
59
4
Hapoel Jerusalem
29
10
9
10
29-32
39
5
tax.
Ashdod
29
10
9
10
37-37
39
6
Maccabi Netanya
29
10
7
12
45-35
37
The games of the next round in the top playoff:
M.S.
Ashdod - Hapoel Jerusalem (Saturday, 17:30)
Maccabi Haifa - Maccabi Netanya (Saturday, 20:00)
Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Tel Aviv (Monday, 20:30)
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Super League
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