The top playoff is worth NIS 4 million to Hapoel Tel Aviv, making the encounter with Ex Kobe Medicine's KH "a game for an entire season"

• Hapoel Tel Aviv players during the humiliation of Sami Ofer. Will they recover?

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  Alan Shaver

Khodorov compound, last Wednesday. Tel Aviv coach Nir Klinger collects the players on the grass for a group meeting, after the humiliation of the Maccabi Haifa. The players stood awake expecting a difficult assembly, shouting, for the coach to give them a head, but Klinger, with his experience, decided to take a different approach "Things like that can happen in life, but you have to keep moving forward," the coach told his players. "We've already proven this year that we can stand up and deal with things like that."

In that conversation, Klinger, who, according to club members, almost lost his voice with Sammy Ofer and sounded particularly hectic in the past two days, also criticized the players for the many professional mistakes they made in the defeat to Haifa, but without going crazy or breaking the dishes.

There was a reason why the coach opted for the more embracing and more rigid approach - the Saturday game against Urban Kash, which the club defined as "a game for an entire season."

Klinger and Grofer in Sammy Ofer. Coach almost lost his voice in Haifa // Photo: Alan Shiber

The fans didn't protest either
A Hapoel official said: "Nir and Moshe (Sinai, SA) chose more to pick up the players and worked on the mental side, because this is a week that must not panic and everyone understands it." And why should not panic? The answer is simple - if the worker does not win the Ex Kobe Medicine's KH, chances are it will find itself out of the top playoffs, and it will be a financial hit for the Reds.

Incidentally, it is not clear whether due to the good ability that characterized the team until the last two losses or for other reasons, but also the fans did not protest in the training complex, unlike other defeats such as the previous one against Maccabi Netanya.

"No money here"
"The owners and everyone in the club want us to be in the top playoffs, because it's worth us about NIS 4 million just from ticket sales," Hapoel says. "We didn't bring many players in the transfer window because there is no money. The budget is calculated on every expense against income, neatly built, And the money from the top playoffs can really help us for the next year. " On the matter of reinforcement, Hapoel tried to join Anthony Varan yesterday, who finally signed Hapoel Hashem.

In order for the player to have a good chance of winning the game against Kash, she must first reset the catastrophic defense. In this regard, the team estimates that although captain Oral Degani has not yet fully recovered from the back hip injury which was absent from the last games, he will not be allowed to open with him Even if that means he will have to come up with a shot, on the other hand, there are those in the club who say it would be a mistake to return Degani when he is not 100 percent eligible, and the final decision on his case will be made on Saturday.

Sinai and Nissanov. "A week that shouldn't panic" // Photo: Alan Shiber

Contrary to Degani, whose lack is well felt, Felipe Rodrigues' performance in Sammy Ofer was very weak and in the face of his great disappointment he is expected to return to the bench. The one who is supposed to replace him is Motti Bershecki. Goalkeeper Yoav Jarafi will continue to open the beams, despite the disappointment of his ability, in light of the fact that Eric Janco is injured.

Maor Buzaglo, who in the last games since the recovery from the kissing illness was incorporated as a replacement, is in the lineup, as is Michael Oulha.