It wasn't wise Rab. Just suppose that De Jong rocket had found its way into the net. Without Amauri, we would have absolutely no chance even to defend the draw and we would have most probably conceded another one.
We can't suppose here. Sali's presence was supposed to hold up the midfield more because they were killing us from the flanks and it helped somehow even though he was red carded.
Then later on he introduced another attacker(David) so it was already planned to introduce an attacker when he took off Amauri, but he did it with different players.
He was a great player, maybe the best european ever, how can i not know him?
Plus, in Israel people know about european basketball more than in european countries- We really love basketball here because of Maccabi Tel-Aviv. it's second only to football.
Btw, Petrovic was in israel in the late 80's, he played with Cibona vs. Maccabi.