Summary of the defeat of Maccabi Tel Aviv 6:1 against Olympiakos in the round of 16 final of the Conference League/Sport1
"It wouldn't have happened in Bloomfield."
These five words are the only ones that can teach Maccabi Tel Aviv's defense after one of the saddest evenings in its European history.
In Bloomfield it might not have happened, the point is that we are not in the European season in Tel Aviv, so this sentence has no validity.
In the absence of a real and actual ability to refute her arguments, it can be ruled with certainty that Maccabi Tel Aviv was humiliated last night without any extenuating circumstances.
It was the second biggest defeat in Europe, more than the upset against Zenit and a little less than the loss to Santa Coloma.
It is undoubtedly the most resonant and painful of them all.
If Robbie Keane had a healthy sense of humor (or a sick one, depending on how you look at it), he would immediately after the game send a WhatsApp to Eliniv Barda and ask him what a 6:1 defeat could do to a team's confidence.
Unlike that "meeting of the Europeans" in the Toto Cup, this time there was a meaning of money, prestige and a place in the annals of Israeli football.
Now it's not just the humiliation, it's also its enormous environmental damage.
Maccabi Tel Aviv has already seen itself in the quarterfinals of the conference.
Now she is without a conference, without Milson, with a huge sense of disappointment and ridicule from her haters.
And there are quite a few of these, as you know.
He had no answers.
Robbie Keane/Reuters
If we had opened a score sheet here, it is likely that there would not have been a single player, except maybe Usher David, who would have received more than a 3.
Everyone's performance was atrocious, but the architect of shame was Cain.
He failed in all aspects - from the game plan, through the reaction to events on the field and the lack of proper backup on the right side for Ido Shahar to the substitutions he did not make on time.
In the end, and there is no pleasant way to look at it, the impeachment is on him and only him.
Starting a game three goals behind is not an easy task.
Mentally, the hammer from the first game is still rattling around in your head.
You have to score a quick goal, hope another one comes at a relatively reasonable stage, say by the 60th minute, then try to squeeze in the third and take the game to extra time.
Olympiakos did not believe how easy and early it would be, did not think that she would open the second half with a 0:0 in the summary of the two games.
Maccabi Tel Aviv came up with the feeling that it was 90 minutes into the protocol and the quick goal (oh, my lips) put them in a spin.
Milson's injury has already become the perfect ending.
Professionally and mentally, she was on top.
Add to all this two and a half very grueling hours, a flight to Israel and tuning in for the next league game.
Let's remember, when the final whistle sounded, Maccabi Tel Aviv had less than 67 hours left until the meeting with Hapoel Haifa.
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Ido Shahar in an unhappy game/Reuters
It's hard to call the accident that the Premier League leader had last night a "slight blow to the wing".
It's more damage to the chassis that now needs to be assessed for severity.
The assessment work and the damage estimate will be done on Sunday.
Maccabi Tel Aviv's luck ran out, and they meet the hot Hapoel Haifa, a team that can cause them trouble even on a normal day, especially after such a defeat.
Cain will not only have to deal with Roni Levy's tactics, but also with physical and mental fatigue, and most likely also a hostile and impatient audience that has not yet come to terms with the mental drain.
Then he has a break that will allow him and his players to enter the tin and come out new.
The importance of this meeting is enormous for Maccabi Tel Aviv in general and its coach in particular.
What car will he go with?
How will he manage to raise the morale of his players?
Will he react in time to what is happening on the field this time?
And what will they say in the stands?
different position.
Maccabi Haifa celebrates in Florence/Reuters
The defeat of Maccabi Tel Aviv puts Maccabi Haifa in a strange position.
On the one hand, the greens should be encouraged by all the developments and consequences.
On the other hand, they are also old enough to remember the hard landing they had after the "home" game against Fiorentina.
The irony is that if it weren't for the goal she conceded then in the 95th minute, she might also have struggled last night for another 30 minutes.
The lost sentiment now leans in favor of Maccabi Haifa.
Kein was killed, Maccabi Tel Aviv was mocked, Milson will be absent again for a while.
Suddenly we went back a month in time, when the champion started to climb and eat away at the gap, but Masai Dago knows despite the flattering draw in Florence, his team also has a lot of work to do.
Sharif Kiof's confidence is not what it used to be, Lior Rafalov is not in the same shape and the fatigue also takes a toll on his players.
Dago will hope that the city rival and the appeal at the disciplinary court will put him in the playoffs from a much more favorable position.
He still needs to beat Hapoel Tel Aviv.
easy?
We have seen stranger things than these.
For example, last night at Bacheco Topola.
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