That's why he is the most monstrous actor ever in Israel: the Eran Zahavi effect

With or without injury, with or without preparation, at zero pulse, at a critical moment: Eran Zahavi is not the most virtuoso player that has emerged in our football, but his comeback goal illustrates well why he is the greatest killer of all.

Summary of the successful evening of the Europeans, including the fight that Breda starts to give to Becher

Ron Amikam

05/08/2022

Friday, 05 August 2022, 10:30

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Summary of the Conference League qualifiers: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Aris Thessaloniki 0:2 (Sport1)

1.

When that day comes - and it is not far - when we will be required to summarize in a limited amount of words a player without limits like Eran Zahavi, we will explain that yesterday's goal (Thursday) is exactly what made Eran Zahavi the greatest goalscorer ever in Israel.

Most of his goals are not garbage time, and not just goals, but they are goals that a fan comes to see, and knows that he will see them, and also receives them exactly when he needs them.

There were talented players from Eran Zahavi in ​​Israeli football - tricksters, virtuosos, engineers - but none of them was able to take a bit of each quality, put them one on top of the other, create a standard and also surpass it, like Zahavi.

I mean, what are the chances that a player who hasn't played or scored - for him it's the same thing - for almost three months, will get up from the bench without playing capacity, after surgery and secondary injuries, and score a goal that will do justice to his team's playing ability, and all this when he's 35 years old?

We all know that when it comes to Eran Zahavi, there is no question at all - it will happen.

A player who hasn't played for three months will get up from the bench without fitness, after surgery, and score?

Everyone knows: it's golden (photo: Danny Maron)

You have to understand a very simple thing: Maccabi Tel Aviv could have won a fourth place yesterday like Maccabi Haifa, and at the same time finish without a win, because Daniel Peretz made a number of exceptional saves, yet they will travel to Greece next week with an advantage that could be enough for them, because they had the Eran Zehavi.

And translated into Serbo-Croatian, so that even Stipa Fritza would understand: Eran Zahavi is the only player on the field who doesn't get excited, or suffocate, or think even while he's playing: he's all killer instinct.

Maybe Djorja Jovanovic is like that too, and it would be interesting to see both of them together, although it's not sure if it's possible.

Maccabi Tel Aviv is not as high quality as Maccabi Haifa, Nir Biton, who is excellent as a stopper, is an outstanding midfielder, and the team still needs a significant foreign stopper.

The load on the decisive players is an unusual headache for coach Ivić.

And yet, when you add Eran Zahavi to that, there is equality here and even a tiebreaker.

The players around Zahavi must get rid of the need to look for him, just like the young PSV Eindhoven players had to get rid of the need to ignore him in the last two years.

Zahavi will reach the places where he needs to be found, not necessarily by force.

Just saying, if Maccabi Tel Aviv doesn't collapse next week in Thessaloniki, they can face Nice for a ticket to the playoffs.

Completely.

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It is not lost, even against Nice.

Nir Biton (Photo: Danny Maron)

2.

David Schweitzer was the greatest coach during his time in Israeli football when Itzik Schneior had extraordinary achievements in his own right and Emmanuel Shafer brought the team to the World Cup;

Avraham Grant flourished in Israeli football at the same time as Shlomo Sharaf's long tenure in the Israeli national team, Dror Kashtan's cupping of titles and Giora Spiegel's classics.

It was a bit heartbreaking to see the coaches of the Israeli national team dwarfed in recent years compared to the genius of Barak Becher, so much so that a Serbian coach had to be brought in to stop the flow of championship titles he won.

Now you can say: Eliniv Barda rises to give a fight.

And with his modesty, diligence, and also his ability to study and apply, Barda establishes himself as a competitor to Barak Becher.

He was there, under him and by his side, he learned where and when to insert his presence and where to step aside and let the machine work.

The order, the passion, the responsibility, and the courage with which Hapoel Beer Sheva plays - and leave the victory yesterday in Switzerland,

Hapoel Be'er Sheva does not have stars like Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv, and it will not be able to generate the same amount of audience as theirs, and it also seems that financially its options are more limited, but the way of its coach ensures that it will not give up anything: not games, not titles.

It's terribly frustrating to be an excellent team and surrender to big organizations - the best Beitar Jerusalem team I've seen in my life was in the 1995/6 season, precisely when they finished third after Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa - but every victory is a celebration. The wisdom in Hapoel Beer Sheva this season - and I'm sure Shaliniv Barda will sharpen it - you won't feel like an underdog. This is the difference between a small team and a big one, and Hapoel Beer Sheva has long been a big club.

Coach's fingerprint.

Breda (Photo: Reuters)

Some important highlights: There is no price that can prevent Hatham Alhamid from continuing to play alongside Miguel Vitor - also in the national team - and this is something that Alona Barkat should kill herself for.

That you move the entire north to the south, that you hire three more drivers to drive him from Kfar Manda to Be'er Sheva every day, the main thing is that he doesn't feel cut off from home.

Beer Sheva's defense with these two withstood the crazy pressure of Maccabi Haifa in the champion of the champions and ends three games in Europe with the absorption of only one goal.

Beer Sheva in a full lineup, with Astrit Salmani as a purchase, with Rotem Hatuel as a joker, is a team that needs to qualify for the group stage of the Conference League and even more than that, and it can mainly give a crazy fight to the crazy fight in the best way there will be in the league this season.

Alona should "kill herself" on him.

Alhamid (Photo: Reuters)

3.

0:8 in three games in the third early round in Europe, including an away game against a Swiss team, is something that is not taken for granted in the battered Israeli football, but if of course you add to it the performances of the team in the League of Nations in June and the performances of the youth team in July in the European Championship, you get something that is An anti-thesis to what is happening in our football (Beitar Jerusalem saga, the business license of Shlomo Insurance Stadium). And yet, in everything related to the elite of Israeli football, this is a nature reserve.

Beyond everything, a competition developed here that is even above the natural competition on the field.

The competition in the stands, on social networks, the arguments and the teasing - not to mention the nastiness - between the audiences, requires the owner to produce a competitive team that will make the audience behind them gurgle with pleasure, and this also means a great effort to succeed in Europe, at a time when the team is still in the preparation stages for the season.

It may be that when it comes to the league, Israel will look like Holland, with only three quality teams and everything else is statistical, but three teams is better than one team, certainly than nothing.

Israel is currently ranked 11th in Europe this season in points from European games (7 wins, only one loss, that of Netanya to Bashakshir last week) and 12th in the last three seasons.

Two home stages - and in this regard it is better for Israel that Haifa reach the Europa League and not the Champions League where it is more difficult to produce points - and maybe even three, can place Israel in a place it has not been in before, and will require more clubs to find sources of investment to participate in this celebration.

In this sense, both the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv in Thessaloniki next week and the playoffs in two weeks are a critical watershed for the development of Israeli football.

This could be the greatest season of Israeli football.

Maccabi Haifa celebrates (Photo: Maor Alxalsi)

With the young team in the Euro playoffs, with the Israeli team in the battle for promotion to Tier A in the Nations League and the opening of Euro 2024 qualifiers, with the youth team in the Mondialeto and perhaps again in the European Championship, and of course the three-header battle in the Premier League - the 2022/23 season may be the greatest season in football history the Israeli

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