1. So far no complaints.
After six rounds there is a very egalitarian league here.
As of the first part of the season everyone can beat everyone and the last round proved it.
This is what happened to those who are considered the big three: Holon and Jerusalem lost and Maccabi Tel Aviv needed two overtimes to beat Eilat.
Each of the three is already with two losses after six rounds and the Yellows who all thought would run over the league were almost three.
True we are only a little after the first half of the first round and the table will still take on a different shape, but for now the gaps are small.
There is a difference of one victory from first place to eighth.
There is a difference of two victories between first and last place.
This is especially true for those who have not looked as good as Maccabi Rishon for example.
The league did not run away from anyone.
With his back to the wall and estimates that he is on his way to another loss that will deepen the crisis of the season opener, Hapoel Tel Aviv came into the game with Hapoel Holon and it ended in victory in an unconventional way.
The Reds did it upside down.
Whoever is considered on paper as an attacking team with quite a few tools has won the important game in defense.
Franco's teammates deducted almost a third of the points that Holon scored and left it at 62. The team that has absorbed almost 88 points so far this game has absorbed 26 less this time.
One of the well-known phrases in basketball is that in defense there is no bad day and we will add that not only multiple teams of good defensive players can save.
Even Danny Franco admitted that his team is not the best defensive team in the league.
Despite this we saw an exceptional defensive performance by the Reds against an excellent attacking team.
In other words the red rescue campaign from the start of the bad season starts from the base and the base is the defense.
Whether this was a one-time mobilization related only to the urgency of the game will be known later.
Frantz is celebrating.
The difference in the northern region, Photo: Udi Citiat
3. This season a new derby was born.
It is called the Derby of Working Settlement.
Gilboa / Galil vs. Upper Galilee.
Gilboa was born in 2008 when the late owner Haim Ohayon decided to move the group from the Galilee to the valley.
The original team Hapoel Galil Elyon started all over again and returned this season to the Premier League.
This is not a Tel Aviv derby or Haifa, but there is a lot of emotion behind this meeting.
On Sunday they met for the first time in Kfar Blum and Gilboa / Galil the guest came out victorious.
Beyond picantry and rivalry it can be said that one player made the difference in this game - the coordinator of Gilboa London Frantes.
In this game the point stood out for who has a game manager and landlord and who does not.
Upper Galilee is built a lot on instincts and running game, but it has no real coordinator.
Someone like Frantes for example.
Gilboa is a more balanced team than the Upper Galilee thanks to the coordinator who leads the league in assists.