Hapoel Tel Aviv will meet Hapoel Haifa on Saturday, and hope to achieve a victory that will give them some breathing room at the bottom, and maybe forget a little the embarrassing elimination from the state cup.
Injured midfielder Hisham Laios will miss the game.
Yahav Gurfinkel is suffering from a minor injury and is in doubt for the match, as well as Eddie Gottlieb, Ben Biton and Abu Dusso, who have been ill in recent days.
"I believe that we can embark on a new and good path,"
said the team's coach, Sloboden Drapich, today
, during the trip before the game and added, "I know Roni Levy, one of the best coaches in Israel, perhaps the best there is, and he will not let his team Conceding a lot of goals is a game where both they and we need the points, and any mistake or kick can be decisive."
The coach said about the problems with the squad: "It's not easy to be a coach, it's not easy to manage the squad when there are injured and sick people. I made a mistake when I let Leos play. He felt the muscle against BS and I didn't have any substitutions and then I let him play against Afula.
You have to deal with the situation, I believe very much in the club and the players.
I believe that we will strengthen the team because it needs some changes so that we can move it forward."
To the question of whether there will be a budget for significant strengthening in January, Drapich said: "When I arrived at Hapoel Tel Aviv, I was promised that we would reach January and then be strengthened.
We want both Israeli and foreign players, we have a promise from the management and they know that the team needs to get stronger, we need some cosmetic changes to make the team good and attractive, but we won't have to go crazy."
David Kaltins concluded:
"We have not had an easy week mentally. We were so close to reaching the finals of the Toto Cup against BS and then a very difficult and disappointing loss in the cup, but we are now only focused on the league and will have to arrive fit and ready for every game."
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