Summary: Maccabi Haifa - Maccabi Tel Aviv 0:2/Sport1
Many wondered what Eran Zahavi talked about with some of the Maccabi Tel Aviv players at the end of yesterday's (Monday) loss to Maccabi Haifa.
The poignant conversations with his hand over his mouth covering his lips led to a lot of speculation.
Did he criticize the coach as some commentators estimated?
Did he not like the formation that makes him look for balls in the area, since there are not two wing players and there is Dor Turgeman next to him who also needs balls?
Didn't understand the line-up or substitutions?
Even if this issue is not resolved, it is clear that Zahabi had a lot of anger about another game in which Maccabi Tel Aviv loses before it conquers.
In the last seven games in the league, the ones that started with a draw against Hapoel Hadera and ended with the loss to Maccabi Haifa, Maccabi Tel Aviv scored 9 points out of a possible 21.
This is the record of a bottom team, but what is repeated and characterizes it is that in most of the games Maccabi Tel Aviv fell behind.
In five of these seven games, Maccabi Tel Aviv conceded before scoring.
Twice against Maccabi Haifa it left her unanswered.
Twice against Hapoel Hadera and Bnei Rayna she only knew how to equalize and end the games with a draw.
Only in one game against Hapoel Jerusalem did she know how to make a change and win.
What made him angry?
Zahavi/Maor Alxalsi
Zahavi, as well as other Maccabi Tel Aviv players, were nervous the other day at Sami Ofer about the fact that Maccabi Tel Aviv is once again starting a game behind and having to chase the opponent.
Against the smaller teams, this makes them run after a team that closes and defends with ten players in the box.
Against Maccabi Haifa, she knew how to play good football for quite a few minutes, but she still wasn't strong and quality enough to equalize, let alone win.
Before methods, formations, stationary and foundations, Maccabi Tel Aviv understands that it must stop absorbing the quick and easy goals that frustrate and torment it, and this is what its players need to consider first of all.
Robbie Keane and his team know this is the main problem.
Now he has to find a way to solve it.
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