Maccabi Haifa prayed to hear the final whistle against Maccabi Netanya, but who will remember?

1 – The damage that Bnei Sakhnin did to Hapoel Be’er Sheva this season will still have to be studied in the troll science faculties. Beer Sheva lost six points because of Sakhnin this season – without conceding even once. The 0:0 yesterday (Saturday) was the most expected result in the world, but the main damage was done to the leader of the table back in the summer. Until they return to Beer Sheva the points that were stolen from it due to an event that was not up to the team and has nothing to do with sports, Ran Kozhuch’s guys and the coach himself will have to deal with an extremely tedious second round, which includes seven more away games – and the most annoying ones you can get : Teddy twice, Hapoel Haifa, Rayna, Ashdod and Netanya (there is also Hadera, but that’s enough). And if that’s not enough, two of the four remaining home games for Beer Sheva until the playoffs are against Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa. It won’t be a picnic, and the lost points against Sakhnin would have helped a lot. But go deal with trolls.

2 – The game between Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Netanya met all the expectations that could be had from an away game of Yossi Abouxis against a full Sami Ofer: one team scored twice despite its obvious inferiority on the grass and the rest of the time it shut down and looked like a team begging for the final whistle, and the other pressed and attacked most of the game , the scoring, may have been missed by the refereeing team (I don’t think so) and almost every organized attack of hers was Dangerous, purposeful and effective. Only in one thing did the expectations not materialize: the team that prayed to hear Oral Greenfeld’s final whistle was Maccabi Haifa, and the team that attacked and attacked and was much more dangerous was Maccabi Netanya.

The point is that in May no one will remember it and no one will care – about how it actually looks. Maccabi Haifa managed not to get into a crisis with a second draw against a bottom team and now has a calm head ahead of the Toto Cup final and the fascinating meeting against Ashkelon in the State Cup. Haifa also took advantage of Be’er Sheva’s draw and now it is again a tiny gap away from first place – with a full round still ahead of it. Even Netanya, if it is relegated in May, will not be able to take solace in the fact that it was worth at least a draw in yesterday’s game. who cares

Until January arrives, Barak Becher will have to find a way to leverage the few (very) good things he received yesterday: Dean David is back in focus, Dia Saba is dangerous and insanely sharp (genius cooking and a great goal) and Nahuel, finally, “started the move”. Oh, and Sheriff Kioff was good yesterday, just before the local media drink his blood through a straw during January. Not sure that right now it’s enough to run to the end, because you can’t build an entire season on Saba’s killer instinct.

3 – If it comforts anyone in Carmel, even Maccabi Tel Aviv is still not good enough. On the other hand, for the second week in a row that Maccabi achieves a victory that is full of strength and power. And despite everything, something is not working: the fifth game in a row that Aztic sees his team suffer, after that in the first eight rounds the yellows recorded four games without a ball in the net; and it’s not just that they score goals – in three of the last four league games Maccabi conceded that much Many expatriates and running for the championship is not impossible, but certainly not ideal.

4 – Guy Melamed scored 70 percent of Hapoel Haifa’s league goals this season – 14 of 20. In “Sha’ar Hashabat” Itai Schechter, a type of striker and a type of commentator, claimed that in order to be the best player in the league today, Melamed has to do it in one of the “big” teams. I mean, what will make Melamed great is not the fact that he alone takes a nice and trained team from the 9th-10th place to the 5th-6th place, but the fact that he will play in a team that is well liked by the referees, that has the ability to put together a link that puts in quality balls and that teams are stymied in front of . Sorry, but it doesn’t work like that: great Guy Melamed, absolutely the best player in the league right now.