The main game of the 19th round brought together the two teams in the best form in the league, and two of the most impressive coaches this season, at Toto Turner Stadium.
The host Hapoel Beer Sheva, came to the game with 8 consecutive victories (seven of them in the league) and against the champion Maccabi Haifa, who was in the midst of a tremendous streak of 16 games without a loss, but also with many injuries and in the first game in the post-Charon Sherry era.
There are quite a few similarities in the route taken by the two teams this season and especially in the way in which the two coaches developed together with their teams while on the move.
One of the most difficult things for a coach is to abandon everything he did in preparation, deal with crises, change formations and formations and create team chemistry and harmony under the high pressure of games.
Almost ended in disaster: watch the fall of Maor Bozaglo // Credit: Private
What Breda did and is doing this season, should be shown and taught in the coaches' courses.
Last season Barda opened with 3 points out of a possible 9, put together a new, strong and aggressive link that included Gordana, Shamir and Elias, a quick attack with Ansa and Barik with Yehezkel as a wing defender, moves that brought the Southerners to finish ahead of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
This season, Breda tried to start in a similar way, but things did not come together and his team scored 8 goals in the first eight games and looked completely lost, when along the way they lost Yehezkel, Spuri, and Kalimela, when Abu Abid and Marciano were also injured.
But Breda was not quiet about the yeast and continued to think outside the box, while he worked properly in training to practice his ideas and in the end it caught on to him.
The team started playing in a 4:4:2 formation without a natural striker, with the front four constantly changing places and making it difficult to defend against it.
He turned Fuku, an aggressive and mobile midfielder, into a right defender who starts the movement of the ball with the two brakes (the so-called - line 3) and thus it is possible for Lopez to go up high and function as an attacking link player with the ball at the feet of the brakes, which also upgraded the young Ganah and gave him a lot of opportunities to enter to center with opposite leg.
Hapoel Beer Sheva celebrates a victory over Maccabi Haifa, photo: Danny Maron
He gave the keys to Antonio Sefer, a player who at the beginning of the year was talked about moving to Ashdod so that he could grow up and earn a super quality foreigner and also a player who provides a constant threat from the second line and in stationary situations.
Not to mention the decision to go for Niv Eliasi, until this season an unknown goalkeeper, year 2000, who changed 3 clubs in the youth divisions, played a little in the national league as a loaner in the summer and this season is doing a great job.
Be'er Sheva did benefit from Piero's suspension (the outrageous irresponsibility of the striker who applauded the referee after receiving a yellow card and abandoning his team), but it was also better until the suspension.
Vitor was fantastic, winning all the tackles and pushing the team forward, Gordana dominated the center and Breda's substitutions were also accurate with Ganach scoring the second goal for Lopes.
Beer Sheva can only regret today that it started a little late in terms of the league, but it still has goals this season.
First of all the State Cup, but also to try to get as close as possible to the two leaders (it has Hapoel Haifa on the way, which is having a great season and is still ahead of it).
And above all, think ahead about the next season, who we go with, where we strengthen and how we leverage the success so that next season, Beer Sheva will start already in the first round, or if we remember the trauma of Breda from the beginning of the season - already in the first game of the Toto Cup.
Pierrot is removed.
Irresponsibility of the striker, but BS was better even before, photo: Danny Maron
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