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0:00 - Be'er Sheva's Strong Performance Reviewed
2:20 - Intro to Israel National Team Critique
2:28 - Squad Choices: Goalkeepers and Defense
4:51 - Defensive Depth and Tactics
5:19 - Midfield, Attack, and Selection Questions
6:26 - Attackers and Call-Up Inconsistencies
7:36 - Controversy Around Dia Saba
9:01 - Conclusion and Support for Team
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0:00 - Be'er Sheva's Strong Performance Reviewed
2:20 - Intro to Israel National Team Critique
2:28 - Squad Choices: Goalkeepers and Defense
4:51 - Defensive Depth and Tactics
5:19 - Midfield, Attack, and Selection Questions
6:26 - Attackers and Call-Up Inconsistencies
7:36 - Controversy Around Dia Saba
9:01 - Conclusion and Support for Team
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00:00Hapoel Beersheva finished with a nil-nil draw against Dinamo Zagreb in a very impressive game on their part, and
00:04I thought I'd make a short video.
00:05I didn't have a whole lot to say, but maybe a 2-3 minute video, maybe even just talking about
00:08a match, because again, there isn't much to analyze about a nil-nil draw.
00:11But then Ranben Shimon Skolaf Today's Valley National Team came out, and I have a lot to criticize and get
00:14annoyed about regarding them.
00:16But just a second before I do that, I want to give huge props to Hapoel Beersheva, who finished nil
00:20-nil against Dinamo Zagreb and did so with absolute dominance.
00:22And I say this despite them coming into this game without Eliel Perez, without Diop, without Rotman, without Ventura, and
00:27of course without Dan Bitton.
00:28And before I even talk about Kangua, honestly, we need to move on already, his ancient history, even though he
00:33used to be a very, very key player.
00:35In the end, there are replacements here, but Hapoel Beersheva, despite everything and despite all that we've said, still stands
00:39as an extraordinary team.
00:40I really have no other way to put it.
00:43Their high press simply neutralized Dinamo Zagreb completely throughout the game.
00:46They controlled the pace from about the 15th minute.
00:49Dinamo Zagreb barely crossed the halfway line.
00:52Now, it's also not like Hapoel Beersheva played brilliant attacking football.
00:55After all, they also have attacking limitations. They don't have the best attacking squad in the world.
00:58They don't have tons of talent up front, but they still got to a few chances that weren't far off.
01:01And I'm not necessarily just talking about Forsen's shot in the first half that hit the post and came close
01:05to going in,
01:06because in the end, that's a shot with very low expected goals, just good skill on his part that almost
01:10ended up as a goal,
01:11which again, my point is that the opportunity itself wasn't a high percentage chance.
01:14It wasn't a very good chance.
01:15It was simply the shot, the execution, that was good execution and almost resulted in a goal.
01:19And on those things, Beersheva were just missing that final touch, as they say,
01:23because Forsen's shot that hit the post also fell right to the feet of Azlatanovic, who couldn't get it under
01:26control.
01:27There was a situation where East won the ball back in Beersheva's high press for the umpteenth time.
01:32They simply suffocated Dinamo Zagreb, but that final move to be precise enough to put the ball in the net
01:36just wasn't there.
01:37And here you can blame East, you can blame Ghana for not getting to the ball, you can blame a
01:40lot of things,
01:41but in Hapoel Beersheva's current situation, I don't blame anyone,
01:44because in the end, they got more out of themselves than I expected,
01:47they dominated this game and completely neutralized the Croatian champions.
01:50The expected goals in this match, in my opinion, don't reflect it,
01:53because 0.82 is consisted with the fact that at the last second, the ball didn't reach Ghana there,
01:57because that's obviously a very high percentage chance,
01:59or Zlatanovic's shot when the ball fell to his feet, had it gone in, it obviously would have had a
02:02higher percentage.
02:03And throughout the whole match, they seemingly reached the final third quite easily,
02:06but they have nothing to offer in that area.
02:07That said, this match at least gave me the feeling that Hapoel Beersheva does indeed have something to offer in
02:11this tournament.
02:11I don't know yet how things will turn out against Azat Alkmaar, against Union Saint-Giroir,
02:15they've also got some very tough matches ahead,
02:16but they definitely deserved points and looked very good heading into what's next,
02:19even with a heavily defeated squad.
02:21So, as I promised you, I don't have much to say about Hapoel Beersheva,
02:24but I do have a lot to say about the Israeli national team and its squad
02:26ahead of the upcoming four matches against Austria, Ireland and Kosovo.
02:29Ranben Shimon continues to run with many players he has already been sticking with for a long time,
02:32but there are simply things here that, in my opinion, make no sense at all.
02:35I will also explain exactly why and give my reasoning.
02:37Let's start with the goalkeepers.
02:39Here in Gore we have Daniel Peretz, Omli Glazer and Asaf Tsu.
02:41I have no complaints here.
02:42I think the right decision was made.
02:43There isn't much more to discuss.
02:44I think the hierarchy among the goalkeepers here is also clear,
02:47with Daniel Peretz being the first-choice goalkeeper.
02:49Glazer or Tsu, it doesn't really matter anymore.
02:50Let's just say the goalkeeper position isn't our problem right now.
02:52From here we move to the defensive positions,
02:54and here there is no doubt that we have a serious weakness with a lot of missing players,
02:57including significant ones like Lemkin, for example, who won't be joining.
02:59But here there's something that strikes me as very, very strange,
03:02because we're talking about Feingold, Rad Shlomo, Nikita Stojanov,
03:04Idan Nachmias, Revivo, Mizrahi and Anan Halayili.
03:07In my eyes, for all of them, there's no question mark here at all.
03:09Everyone here deserves the call-up.
03:10The only question mark should be, first of all, about Noam Stiefmann,
03:13who actually doesn't play that much at Maccabi Haifa.
03:14He played 30 minutes in the last game and even scored a goal,
03:17but he barely gets any minutes, meaning 7 minutes, 9 minutes, 10 minutes.
03:23But because we like defensive players so much and they want to develop him,
03:25they call him up here and I'm totally for it.
03:27He's 18.
03:28With physical attributes you don't see every day,
03:30and he might be the national team's center-back in the future.
03:33There's no reason not to give him the stage right now,
03:35especially when we don't currently have other players playing at center-back,
03:37which makes me say he's coming in instead of them.
03:40What's more, at the end of the day, he's supposed to be a backup center-back on this team.
03:42But the big question mark is Eli Dassa,
03:44whom we must remember still doesn't have a club after leaving any Sinai Macan since last season.
03:47That means he arrives after about 4 and a half months without playing professional football.
03:50He played 45 minutes for Israel against Albania.
03:53And besides that, the previous time, pay attention, was on May 10th.
03:57And even then, he played around 60 minutes.
03:59Now, last year, he was a starting player at Nijmegen, a top team in the Netherlands.
04:03There's no doubt about Dassa's quality.
04:04And I'll say more than that, even the previous times Ben Shimon called him up
04:07when he arrived lacking much fitness, he was excellent for the national team.
04:09Excellent.
04:10Much better than his time back then under Hazan.
04:13The main advantage of bringing in Dassa, and I assume that's also why he's being called up,
04:17is to play as a center-back in a 5-man defense.
04:19Because we have two players for whom we must play with a back 5,
04:22which are, of course, Anand Haleli and Roy De Vivo.
04:26If we don't play with a back 5, in my opinion, we miss out on their attacking qualities.
04:29Or we simply play with a back 4, and then Haleli can play right-back, but rather has to play
04:33right-wing.
04:34Which isn't a bad option at all, by the way, especially considering that we talk about the midfield in a
04:38moment,
04:38and talk about the fact that we barely have any players who play as right-wingers.
04:42But look at this squad.
04:44When I look at the whole squad, we only have one left-back in total in the squad,
04:47or one defensive player who can play at left-back, and we're talking about four games here.
04:51What happens if Roy De Vivo gets injured, gets tired?
04:54Where is the backup left-back?
04:56Now, it's true that we aren't overflowing with left-backs in Israel,
04:58but we do have Dolon Leidner and Bartaha and David Zada,
05:00even though David Zada barely plays for a Paul Beresheva either, and they aren't playing.
05:04Baltaxa isn't currently playing as a left-back at Beresheva, but rather as a center-back.
05:07But still, these are players who can play both as center-backs and as left-backs.
05:11It's not perfect, but we do need players to fill these positions as well.
05:14The same goes as I move on to the midfielders and attackers,
05:16because I'll take them together, even though they separated them here in the graphie.
05:19I think the players who are here in the midfield positions are also players who,
05:23many of them, sit in the exact same position.
05:24And when I look at the players here in terms of match fitness,
05:26there are things here that I just don't understand.
05:28Gunderman, when he was in good match fitness, wasn't called up to the national team.
05:31Now that he's not playing in rent, seeing barely any minutes, he gets called up.
05:34Rofani, Eliel Perez, Dor Perez, Oskar Gruch, Gabi Kanichowski, I totally get.
05:38Jaren Levy, with all due respect, and there is a lot of respect,
05:41is a player who currently isn't starting and hasn't played with Maccabi Haifa in the last three games.
05:44He played a total of 65 minutes.
05:46Don't get me wrong, it's not that I'm saying he isn't worthy of the national team,
05:48because many asked, for example, about Orian Goren,
05:50why he wasn't called up or if he should be called up,
05:52and they called him up to the U21 team.
05:54But the question is whether they also want to cup tie Orian Goren,
05:57as there is currently even talk that perhaps the Spanish national team might offer him to play for them.
06:01I don't know if he'll do it, but at the end of the day,
06:03it's not every day that we have a player coming up through Barcelona's academy
06:06who trains with the senior squad.
06:07There's a reason for it.
06:08Even if he doesn't play many minutes,
06:09even if he comes off the bench for three minutes,
06:11seven minutes in matches where we are deep in garbage time out of four games,
06:14it's worth it.
06:15Which is contrary, by the way, to what I said about Stifepan,
06:17because at the end of the day, Yarin Levy is a player who plays in a position
06:20where there's a lot of competition.
06:21There are a lot of players who could be called up here,
06:23and for me, there are a lot of question marks about players who weren't called up.
06:26For example, when I look at the front line at the attack,
06:28we are talking here about Manor, about Dorturjeman,
06:31Toklomati, Abada, Baribo, and Syed Aboufarhi.
06:33Literally five players representing the MLS.
06:35From the MLS.
06:36All of them, by the way, are worthy players,
06:38but when I look at Yadden Shua,
06:39and again, I repeat, Yadden Shua was also good in the national team's recent matches
06:42and also scored the winning goal for us,
06:43but Yadden Shua isn't playing for Beita right now.
06:45He's not in match fitness.
06:46So on what basis do they bring a player?
06:48Based on the system?
06:49Based on whether he's a regular?
06:50Based on match fitness?
06:51If he's not playing, it's definitely not that.
06:53So on what basis are they calling up Yadden Shua?
06:55Because one of the glaring things in this squad in my eyes
06:57is that you don't have a single player who plays on the right wing,
07:00except for Liel Abada,
07:01unless you consider Anam Haleli as another player who plays on the right wing,
07:03even though he's moved to the fullback position.
07:05They say maybe the national team will keep him playing on the right wing,
07:08but you don't have a single left-footed player playing on the right wing.
07:11After all, you have options, you have players,
07:13you just need to choose from.
07:14There's Turiel, Azzili, if they want to call him up,
07:16Davida, who started the season brilliantly,
07:18but on the other hand, you have players who barely play,
07:20so I don't understand on what basis the players are selected.
07:23I don't even want to talk about or mention Diazaba here.
07:26I saw reports in the media that he isn't coming,
07:27that it was a mutual decision.
07:29It's obvious to all of us that this is bullshit,
07:30and here it's also time to stop, to stop playing games.
07:33Diazaba wasn't called out to the Israel national team.
07:34Ranben Shimon admitted he has a place.
07:36If a player has to think about whether a call-up to the Israel national team
07:39will affect his future, that's unacceptable.
07:40What is this groveling? I don't understand.
07:42He plays in Turkey.
07:43As far as I'm concerned, his time with the Israel national team is over.
07:46It's just insane to me, in a world that tries so hard to be politically correct,
07:49how everyone submissively accepts the fact that there's a player who is Israeli, right?
07:53Treated as an Israeli, registered as an Israeli,
07:55has played for the Israel national team in the past,
07:57and they just accept that, uh-huh?
07:59Okay, because he plays in Turkey,
08:00he can deny playing for the Israel national team.
08:02And as long as he plays in Turkey for his money,
08:04we won't call him up,
08:05because we talk together and decide that it's not appropriate.
08:07To me, this means he is ashamed or refuses to accept being Israeli,
08:10and it doesn't matter,
08:11I don't care how much you write to me about political things and so forth.
08:14Whoever is ashamed and doesn't want to represent the Israel national team
08:17because he prefers playing in Turkey,
08:18as far as I'm concerned,
08:19shouldn't ever play for the Israel national team again,
08:21no matter how good a player he is,
08:22no matter how much it's in his interest right now,
08:24or that he has to think about how much it will affect his future.
08:27We cannot normalize a situation where players are simply given a pass on
08:31reporting to the national team because they are afraid,
08:33or because it's not professionally convenient for them,
08:35because they go to countries that are fully anti-Semitic and hate us unequivocally,
08:38so they are afraid and don't want to get politically involved.
08:40Suddenly, they are not Israelis.
08:41Suddenly, it doesn't affect them.
08:43Suddenly, they don't want to be a part of it.
08:44In my opinion, we need to stop asking this at press conferences.
08:47We need to stop covering it,
08:48and we need to focus on those who are actually here.
08:50And while I personally disagree with,
08:51and don't understand a large part of the decisions
08:53Ran Ben Shimon made with the squad here,
08:55I wish him and the Israeli national team all the success in the world.
08:58Ultimately, that's what matters to me.
08:59I don't care if a certain player from a certain team plays or not.
09:02I care about seeing the national team play good soccer,
09:04winning hopefully,
09:05and everything I said here is null and void
09:07if, in the end, the team looks good on the pitch.
09:09It doesn't matter who plays there,
09:10whether they play players who are match fit or not match fit.
09:13The main thing is good luck to Ran Ben Shimon and the national team.
09:15Either way, I'm behind them.
09:16Ale Israel.
09:17Thank you so much for watching, guys.
09:19The people of Israel live on.
09:20Bye, guys.
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