Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Hapoel Tel Aviv 2:4/Sport1
After the victory in the derby yesterday and ahead of the match against Hapoel Petah Tikva tomorrow, Maccabi Tel Aviv admits that they must improve a very poor element in the team's attacking game, which is the exploitation of situations from corners and stationary balls.
The team counts on average more than 10 stationary balls and corners in each game, of which the team produces nothing.
Coach Robbie Keane discussed this with the players and together with his coaching staff, including the goalkeeper coach who is supposed to be dominant in this field, there is an ambition to improve and progress in this offensive motif that is hardly used to score goals.
"We need to be more diverse in the attack game and take advantage of the many corner kicks," said the club this morning.
Maccabi Tel Aviv are satisfied with the addition of Aden Kartsev.
"He will give us depth in the midfield. He will give body and strength. Joris van Overeem will also be able to rest from time to time because we used him almost to the limit," the club says.
Kartsev was loaned and Maccabi Tel Aviv has an option to purchase him at the end of the season for a large amount, but this does not concern the club's leaders.
"What's for the summer, for the summer. We want to enjoy Eden Kartsev and I hope it will be good enough in the next four months to make us think about whether we should exercise the option in the summer."
Long-term procurement?
Maccabi Tel Aviv is not yet involved in this.
Kartsev/official website, Maccabi Tel Aviv
The team is bothered by the condition of the grass at the Shlomo Insurance Stadium in Petah Tikva.
In Kiryat Shalom they remember well the surface in the meeting against Maccabi Petah Tikva and even now it is not one of the best surfaces in the country.
The team still hasn't calmed down from the second goal that Maccabi Tel Aviv conceded in the derby and they are convinced that, despite the referees' union's announcement, it should have been disqualified.
Roi Meshapti should continue between the rafters.
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