Teddy's naps: The Jerusalem derby is yawning by the teams' fans

Tonight the Jerusalem derby will be held and only 4,000 people have secured their place in the stadium.

Fans complain that the game is on the eve of the financing and close to the departure of Shabbat, Aboksis fears the atmosphere that the team is staying and Ziv Arieh is still trying to lift his players from the trauma of Kiryat Shmona

Ophir Saar

23/04/2022

Saturday, 23 April 2022, 12:00 Updated: 12:07

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Summary: Hapoel Nof Hagalil - Betar Jerusalem 2: 0 (Sport 1)

The Jerusalem derby brought Teddy this season in two league games 16 and 18 thousand spectators.

The derby that will take place tonight (Saturday), which is perhaps the most significant of the three, will be much less so.

As of yesterday morning, about 4,000 fans of the two teams together have secured their place in the stadium.

There are extenuating circumstances and on the part of some Betar fans there is a feeling that the stay is quite guaranteed and therefore the atmosphere is very sleepy. "If there are ten thousand spectators in this game we will say thank you, the pace of sales is very slow."

On the professional side, Yossi Aboksis made sure to keep the Betar players alert throughout the last week. Aboksis does not do this through long meetings or unnecessary digging, but mainly through high tension in training, pace and the fact that he does not allow anyone to lower the intensity. To him with a small injury he hears: "You smell the end of the season", whoever slows down a bit in practice - is replaced.

Aboksis did nothing out of the ordinary in training this week.

He conducted a video analysis of the game in the Galilee landscape, and a bit about Hapoel Jerusalem.

Quite a few personal conversations on the grass and short meetings that relate to the game as the most important this season.

"Everyone has a sense of a good and real team and that's the story, it's also the confidence ahead of the game, more than the gap in the table," the club said.

As part of the seriousness and trait ahead of the game, and despite the difficult financial situation, the team goes out at noon to a hotel to stay together until the game.

Abacus so wants this derby.

Also because it will be the third victory in a row, but also because it's kind of staying in the league in class, a big V stamp on his track at Betar this season, a team that got a weak professional in the league and managed to make a drastic change. And he replied: "Not everything is a table, we have to win."

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They have no madness ahead of the derby.

Betar fans (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

These two weeks of Hapoel Jerusalem can be divided into several parts.

In the first week, everyone was traumatized by Kiryat Shmona, at the India Club, because "if the derby had been played the previous Saturday, we would have crashed. It took the players time to raise their heads."

Ziv Arieh tried to strengthen his players throughout the period, especially in the professional section, and told them at the meetings what they said in football about the game in Kiryat Shmona, how much the team appreciated and how good the second half was until Noam Malmud's mistake.

At the same time, the coach added that "it will not help us, but we are still dependent on ourselves and need to do it".

Ziv Arieh is in the spotlight in terms of fans and commentators.

There are those who appreciate his work, but on the other hand he is a strange chicken that leans for guidance in his conduct and will have to be more self-aware in the future.

Professionally, he did a lot of beautiful things at Hapoel Jerusalem, built a team, a fighting team, with a very anonymous and inexperienced staff.

Relegation will be on him, but if the team stays in the league it will be a tremendous achievement for him, against all criticism.

And the truth?

As of the start of the season also against all odds.

When the two teams play, the players will already know the result of Maccabi Petah Tikva's game against Nof Hagalil.

If Petah Tikva wins, it will increase the pressure on both teams.

If Petah Tikva does not win, it will give a lot of confidence to both teams and may also make the derby better.

Indeed, naps or not, as in previous derby games this season, will be hot and interesting.

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