Omri Altman arrived injured, recovered, was injured again, recovered, and at no point was he able to generate momentum on the grass. Altman’s physical presence, his goals, investment and getting into situations proved that he is Hapoel Tel Aviv’s most important player up front, even next to Hisham Laios and Alan Ozbolt. Too bad he spent too much time outside.
Dan Einbinder surfs, shouts, spurs, puts pressure on the judges, rescues and pushes – but age takes its toll and the decline in his ability was quite steep. In the game against Hapoel Petah Tikva he committed the foul that led to the absorption in the 99th minute, against Maccabi Petah Tikva he lost on the way to the 0:1 loss to the Malavasim and was replaced early and against Beitar Jerusalem he was already sitting on the bench. Einbinder will always remain a leader, but when the team went down In the capacity – he went down with her.
Beyond these two, after the departure of Jose Rodrigues Hapoel Tel Aviv was left without leaders. Yesterday when Altman was replaced and Einbinder was on the bench, the captain was looking for someone to transfer the film to and couldn’t find. The one who received the honor was Roy Burns no less and no more. And that says it all.
