Summary: Maccabi Haifa - Maccabi Tel Aviv 0:2/Sport1
Anger and nerves in Maccabi Tel Aviv after the 2:0 loss last night (Monday) to Maccabi Haifa.
Internal criticism was also leveled at coach Robbie Keane, who once again did not know how to bring the players to the appropriate level of readiness for the second season game.
Similar to what happened in Bloomfield, last night Maccabi Haifa also won because of mistakes by Maccabi Tel Aviv which were also due to a low professional level, but also because the attitude of the players, certainly in the opening, was not good enough.
If before the game Gabi Kanikovsky admitted that he and his friends came to the game in Bloomfield scared, last night the level of panic was even higher and Cain had no answer for that.
Eran Zahavi, who huddled with Dor Peretz and Sharan Yeni on the grass and hid his face so that his lips could not be read, was very nervous about things that happened on the grass in the form of the game of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Zahavi talked to other actors while hiding his mouth, while the TV camera follows him.
Maccabi Tel Aviv expects that precisely in these moments, Zahavi will show leadership and ability and help pull the team out of the mud.
When Cain was asked last night by the media what is happening to Zahabi this season against Maccabi Haifa and what is happening to him in general that results in him not scoring, the coach rejected the criticism of his captain and made it clear that football is a team game and there is no need to mark one or another player.
The decline continues.
Maccabi Tel Aviv/Maor Alxalsi
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Cain chose to go with a formation of three defenders and this was expected, but in the game in Bloomfield he started with two defenders and also in it Maccabi Tel Aviv made a mistake in defense.
Yesterday it was Derrick Lucassen again in the first goal and after that Dor broke through with a terrible pass inside the box to Lucassen.
Both were wrong.
"You come to a season game and after three minutes you score a goal which is our biggest blow," said a player in the team last night.
"If we are in a problem with foundations and stationary, why arrange a situation for Maccabi Haifa after three minutes from a stationary situation?".
In addition, there was someone who spoke last night about the negative contribution of the foreigners.
The only one who started was Lucassen who, as mentioned, did not have a good game.
Milson is not in Israel, Enrique Saborit is injured, Orlando Muscara is not in the squad, Kiko Bondoso is not a partner from the bench and the sixth foreigner Henry Addo will only sign today.
"It's not serious that for a season game you come with one foreigner and he also makes so many mistakes," said a source close to the club.
Blame him too?
Cain/Maor Alxalsi
Premier League 2023/24
Group
games
victories
draw
losses
gates
points
1
Maccabi Tel Aviv
20
14
4
2
17-40
46
2
Maccabi Haifa
20
14
4
2
15-45
45
3
Hapoel Haifa
20
12
4
4
22-30
40
4
Hapoel Beer Sheva
20
12
3
5
16-40
39
5
Maccabi Bnei Reina
20
7
7
6
22-24
28
6
Maccabi Netanya
20
7
3
10
29-24
24
7
Bnei Sakhnin
20
5
10
5
26-20
24
8
Hapoel Tel Aviv
20
6
5
9
33-29
23
9
Beitar Jerusalem
20
7
5
8
28-30
22
10
Maccabi Petah Tikva
20
6
4
10
38-24
22
11
Hapoel Jerusalem
20
5
4
11
27-19
19
12
tax.
Ashdod
20
4
5
11
32-16
17
13
Hapoel Petah Tikva
20
3
7
10
29-15
16
14
Hapoel Hadera
20
4
3
13
35-13
15
Maccabi Tel Aviv's next game will be at home against Bnei Sakhnin on Saturday, followed by a few days' rest until the away game in Netanya (February 19).
In the future, difficult games await her: at home against Hapoel Beer Sheva, Beitar Jerusalem away and Hapoel Haifa at home.
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