Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Bnei Sakhnin 0:2/Sport1
With 16 goals in all competitions, Dor Peretz records the best personal season of his career. The midfielder reinvented himself this season under the auspices of the more forward role he received in Robbie Keane's formation. Yesterday in the game against Bnei Sakhnin he put the last necessary stamp on the way to the unofficial title that can be attached to him from now on: Maccabi Tel Aviv's man of money time.
When you think of the current Maccabi Tel Aviv, it is customary to think of Eran Zahavi almost automatically as the one who receives this title. But Peretz's contribution to Maccabi Tel Aviv in crucial and difficult minutes is no less significant.
In total, Peretz scored six goals this season in the last quarter of an hour of games. In a rough estimate, his conquests are worth at least 7 points to Maccabi Tel Aviv. A pair against Benny Raina that brought the yellows back from a double deficit, including an equalizing goal in the 85th minute that settled a 2:2 draw; A game-tying goal in the closing round of the regular season against Hapoel Haifa, in the same minute, which made it 1:3 and took the pressure off after minutes of anxiety; And of course, the icing on the cake - the huge goal yesterday against Sakhnin, which some have already defined as Maccabi Tel Aviv's championship goal.
Cold wind - and not now. Dor Peretz/Ariel Shalom
But when it comes to Peretz, it's not really new. All in all, as a Maccabi Tel Aviv player he has a record of three winning goals in the 89th minute and up. He scored a dramatic goal against the same Sakhnin in Maccabi Tel Aviv's last victory over her in Bloomfield, somewhere three years ago. He also scored a dramatic winning goal against Hapoel Hadera in the 2018/19 season.
In total, Peretz scored 39 goals in the yellow uniform. 18 of them came in the last 20 minutes of games; In the league, 9 of the 19 goals he scored were in the last quarter of an hour; In total, 8 goals are registered to his name that led Maccabi Tel Aviv to a lead or a draw. Eran Zahavi, for example, scored fewer such goals in his second term in the team, and most of his goals increase an existing advantage or shrink a deficit.
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A combination of composure and physical fitness is better than opponents who usually fall off their feet, making Peretz a decisive player in the last minutes. Robbie Keane will surely remember if he needs a decisive goal tonight (20:30) against Maccabi Petah Tikva in the cup quarter-finals. Whether he starts or gets a necessary rest and waits on the bench - he was and will remain the yellows' joker when it really matters.
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