Maccabi Tel Aviv host Maccabi Haifa in the second round of the top playoffs. The championship race in the Premier League may be closed definitively and completely.

Robbie Keane came up with his strongest line-up, to which Zahavi, Van Overeem, Peretz and Shafti returned. Ofir Davidzadeh in the left back position in place of Roy Rabivo who went down to the bench. Kenny Seif was preferred in the lineup over Gadi Kinda and Franzi Piero, who is not 100 percent fit, was not included in the squad.