Having already scored seven Champions League goals this season,the Maccabi Tel Aviv striker is showing the skills that absorb made him Israel’s best-paid playerAdmittedly, as the Champions League proper has not actually started, and there is abundant opportunity for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to catch up in this edition’s goalscoring chase,but good now the man who has set a strikingly high bar is Eran Zahavi. The indomitable forward, whose form has been dazzling enough to ignite debate approximately where he stands in the pantheon of footballers to come out of Israel, or has already helped himself to seven goals in five Champions League games,which were instrumental in carrying Maccabi Tel Aviv through the qualification process all the way to Europe’s grandest stage.
Zahavi is Maccabi’s talisman. Their captain, top scorer and figurehead has a habit of scoring pivotal goals. His knack for late strikes is finely tuned. He carries himself on the pitch with the kind of self-belief that ensures he will arrive at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday eager to catch on a Chelsea defence feeling the heat.
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Source: theguardian.com