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In the taste of yesteryear: Hapoel Tel Aviv returns to Kfar Blum Israel today

2022-04-03T10:25:03.383Z


Great highlights from the past, a particularly dramatic previous meeting, and most importantly - what is at stake: securing the playoffs and a shortened route to Europe ● After 16 years, Upper Galilee will host Hapoel Tel Aviv tonight, and no one intends to give up the last ticket to the upper house


Hapoel Jerusalem, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Holon, Bnei Herzliya and Hapoel Haifa are already there. Tonight it will be decided who will be the sixth team in the top house at the end of the regular season.

This will happen in a direct battle in Kfar Blum between Hapoel Galil Elyon and Hapoel Tel Aviv. Beit Elyon means a guaranteed place in the playoffs, and a shortened route to participating in the European factories next season.

nostalgia.

Lots of memories from the past evoke this matchup.

First of all, Hapoel Tel Aviv returns to the hall in Kfar Blum Lara has been different for almost 16 years. Above all - such a meeting brings us back to the season, 92/93 so this duel was the battle for Halle Pot. Hapoel Tel Aviv reached the final series with a home advantage , And after Galil defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv in the semifinals. It ended in a Galilee championship, in what is remembered as the "cherry season".

Timur Bar.

Will not give up the last ticket, Photo: Udi Citation

On whom the pressure.

There is no doubt that Hapoel Tel Aviv. Galil, who returned to the Premier League this season, wants to put a stamp on a great achievement already in the renewed premiere, but the very fact that it is competing for a place in the top house is an achievement. A. is aiming very high, and is also aiming for a ticket to Europe next season.

Bottom line: for the roll it's a bonus, for the verb it's a must.

The momentum.

Is actually on the side of a cylinder.

Beyond the home advantage, it came out in the previous game from a bad time with an impressive victory over Hapoel Holon.

Hapoel Tel Aviv lost momentum recently, with the injury of Jacoben Brown, and it came into the game after a defeat in Holon.

Upper Galilee celebrates Hapoel Tel Aviv, Photo: Liron Moldovan

The previous game.

In the first round, the meeting between them at Heichal Shlomo was one of the biggest and most dramatic this season.

Galil led in the half by 15 points, the Reds made a big comeback and led 83:90 a little over a minute to the end, and then came Galil's comeback.

By the end Ike Irbo scored 11 points, including a three-pointer, and it ended in a 97:99 for Galil at the end of a formidable thriller.

pay attention.

First, this is not the first time this season that Hapoel Tel Aviv has reached a decisive game in the last round. At the end of the first round - the first eight went to the cup factory.

Second, it is possible that all the pressure of tonight's game would have been avoided had it not been for Jacoben Brown's injury.

The man around whom the team was built is missing from her in the money time of the end of the regular season.

Those who play such games are tailor-made for him, and who have already decided quite a few of them - will not be there tonight either.

Third, Galil's previous deciding game evokes fond memories.

This is the Northern team's most important game since its promotion to the Premier League last season.

So the hall in Kfar Blum did its thing, and it defeated Hapoel Afula in the fifth game of the final series in Leumit, and returned to the first league after 13 years.

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Source: israelhayom

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