Summary: Maccabi Netanya - Maccabi Tel Aviv 5:1/Sport1
After the successful training match against Hapoel Kfar Saba yesterday (Tuesday), the Maccabi Tel Aviv players got a rest today and tomorrow afternoon they will begin preparations for the match against Hapoel Beer Sheva on Saturday.
The big question hovering over Kiryat Shalom is whether Robbie Keen will again leave Eran Zahavi and Dor Peretz on the bench at the start of the game.
The Irish took the two out of the lineup yesterday against Maccabi Netanya and brought them in as substitutes only in the second half.
Although these are two leading players in the team, it is clear that the question of Zahavi's exclusion from the lineup resonates more.
Keen claimed in the talks before the game that he decided to bring up Turgeman because the surface at the Netanya stadium is bad and full of potholes and one that has to send long balls over long distances and he wanted Turgeman to run after them as the central striker.
At the end of the game Kein even claimed in front of the media that Zahavi and Peretz hardly rested this season and played most of the games in the lineup, so it didn't hurt for them to start the game on the bench and give themselves a little more rest.
If you rely on these analyzes of the coach, most likely Zahabi will return to the lineup, what's more, Turgeman didn't record a big game and didn't make the coach think about how he takes him out of the 11.
The experiment worked, now we're going back to base.
Cain next to Zahavi/Barney Ardov
Unlike Turjeman, Ido Shahar who started in place of Dor Peretz scored twice, scored once and recorded a great game.
While Shahar gave Cain every reason not to take him out of the lineup, the assumption in Maccabi Tel Aviv is that Zahabi, who came off the bench and scored Shahar's fifth goal in the game, will return to the lineup on Saturday night in Bloomfield against Hapoel Beer Sheva.
One way or another, any decision by Cain will be legitimate, including keeping Turgeman in the lineup since it is also customary to keep the lineup that won the previous game.
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