Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Petah Tikva meet in the 24th round of the Israeli Premier League. The Irish coach will return to his strongest XI, with Nehemias expected to start again as a right back.
Derek Lucassen and Raz Shlomo are still ineligible and Avishai Cohen is yellow. The balance in the last 23 meetings between the teams in all formats: 18 victories for Maccabab Tel Aviv against only two victories forMaccabi Tikva. In Bloomfield it hasn't happened since April 1984, when Elisha Levy equalized 1:1.