Rikan is expected to open, Maccabi Tel Aviv clarifies: "We are not an underdog"
The midfielder, who was absent from the game against Sakhnin, will return to the squad and probably also to the team in the Radius game in Haifa (Saturday, 19:30, Sport3).
Krestic tried to lift the players, one of them said: "We will not get to any game in the inferiors"
Yaniv Tuchman
06/05/2022
Friday, 06 May 2022, 07:00
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Cycle 33
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Maccabi Netanya
Summary: Maccabi Netanya - Maccabi Tel Aviv 1: 1 (Sport 1)
Maccabi Tel Aviv
After losing a chance for the title of the season, Maccabi Tel Aviv will record another low point tomorrow (Saturday, 19:30, Sport3) when it holds its home game against Maccabi Netanya at the Haifa Municipal Stadium.
The Football Association's court imposed a heavy penalty on the team for closing the stands and closing stands 10-11 for five games plus a fine, and until the appeal is filed next week on closing the stands for so many games, the team will travel to Haifa and try to beat Maccabi Netanya for the first time this season.
Mladen Krestajic, in his last games as the team's coach, tried to lift the players yesterday, but it is clear that this is an unstable period for Maccabi Tel Aviv, one of whose negative highs in the loss against Bnei Sakhnin in the previous round.
Despite all this, there are those at Maccabi Tel Aviv who think that even in these moments, when Maccabi Netanya presents the best football in the league, Kiryat Shalom should not feel underdog.
"Maccabi Tel Aviv will not get to any game when it is inferior or underdog," a player on the team said yesterday.
"Even if we are not in the best shape and even if Netanya is in a great period, we should not feel in any game that the rival is a favorite."
Avi Rikan, the last derby hero who was absent from the game in Sakhnin due to a minor injury, will return to the squad and is expected to start in the squad.
Matan Balteksa will return from yellows and may also open as a left-back.
Sharan Yeni, who was hit in the head by a ball during one of the training sessions, will be absent from the squad and it is likely that Dan Bitton will not return yet.
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This time as a left-back?
Matan Balteksa (Photo: Berni Ardov)
Trivia
* 146 meetings were between the teams in the senior league: Maccabi Tel Aviv leads 36:71 in victories and another 39 have not been decided.
* Maccabi Tel Aviv has lost to Maccabi Netanya only once in the last 12 meetings, and this happened in the first round of the season, when the host celebrated a big 2: 4 in Bnei Lem's debut game.
By the way, a quartet was also in the victory that preceded it: 1: 4 in January 2019.
* Netanya is the only one except Bnei Sakhnin that did not lose this season to Maccabi Tel Aviv.
The last time this happened was in 2009/10 (two sessions) and before that also in 2008/09 (three sessions) and 2007/08 (three sessions).
Four unbeaten clashes in the league that season?
Netanya has never done that.
* Maccabi Tel Aviv scored a top five in 29 minutes in the derby, but other than that it has only two more goals in the other five playoff games, in which it also did not win.
* Patrick Twamasi celebrated his first pair in the Premier League in the previous round (out of six goals he has had since joining Maccabi Netanya in January).
He scored his first double for an Israeli rival network in October 2017 against Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Astana's 0: 4 in the home stage of the Europa League.
Top playoff
Group
Games
Victories
draw
Losses
Gates
Points
1
Maccabi Haifa
32
22
6
4
23-71
72
2
Hapoel Beer Sheva
32
18
9
5
26-47
63
3
Maccabi Tel Aviv
32
17
8
7
35-55
59
4
Maccabi Netanya
32
12
12
8
35-43
48
5
Bnei Sakhnin
32
13
9
10
34-32
48
6
Hapoel Tel Aviv
32
12
9
11
44-42
45
33rd round games in the top and 32nd playoffs:
Saturday, 18:00: Bnei Sakhnin - Hapoel Tel Aviv (Sports 4)
Saturday, 19:30: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Maccabi Netanya (Sports 3)
Saturday, 20:30: Hapoel Beer Seven - Maccabi Haifa
Sunday, 20:00: Hapoel Jerusalem - Maccabi Petah Tikva (Sport 4)
Sunday, 20:00: Kiryat Shmona - Hapoel Nof Hagalil
Sunday, 20:30: Hapoel Hadera - Betar Jerusalem (Sport 2)
Monday, 20:00: Hapoel Haifa - MS Ashdod
sport
Israeli soccer
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