The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Eitan Tibi out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Maccabi Petach Tikva will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match9 Jan 2027
Bnei Yehuda punish Maccabi Petach Tikva for switching off
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Adar Ratner will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Maccabi Petach Tikva escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A move Elad Amir would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Elad Amir is living that version at Maccabi Petach Tikva, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ryota Noma in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maccabi Petach Tikva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Maor Erlich at Maccabi Petach Tikva
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Maor Erlich is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near José Cortés
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Match Adar Ratner rescues a point for Maccabi Petach Tikva
- Player ratings A day to forget for Nowaf Bazia
- Market Maccabi Petach Tikva shop where it costs nothing
- Market Maccabi Petach Tikva shop where it costs nothing