Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa are nine points clear at the top of the Israeli league table. The two teams have played each other twice in the last two days, with identical results.

The difference in points, and especially the identical results, seemingly draw clear similarities between these two seasons, but anyone who followed 2019/20 knows how deep the gap is between it and the current one. It is equally not unreasonable to think that the struggle will be reopened. Something very unexpected has to happen so that Robbie Keane and his players don't celebrate a championship.