Less than a month after beating them in Bloomfield and returning to the championship fight and after losing to them in the Toto Cup final about two weeks ago, Maccabi Haifa hosts Maccabi Tel Aviv this evening (Monday) for the second game of the season in the Premier League.
The greens know that tonight's victory will provide them with a big boost and reduce the gap from 1st place to a point, when the yellows may still suffer a penalty of dropping a point following the events of the derby when Robbie Keane and his team want to increase the gap at the top to 7 and feel great confidence again towards the last straight of the league.
After the loss to Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Masai Dago received Abdeloui Sak who returned from the African Championship straight to the team.
Kenny Saif took the place of Pierre Cornot on the left wing, Dean David and Anan Halaili started in the corner in the absence of Franzi Piero and Lior Rafalov will man the link together with Ali Muhammad and Gadi Kinda.
Robbie Keen went up in a three-stop lineup, with Raz Shlomo, the newly acquired stopper who arrived from Levan, Belgium, starting in the center of defense alongside Derrick Lucassen and Mattan Baltexa, with Eran Zahavi returning to the side next to Dor Turgeman after coming on against Hapoel Jerusalem only in the 72nd minute.
The vehicles:
Maccabi Haifa: Sharif Kiuf, Anan Halaili, Abdulai Sek, Sean Goldberg, Lorenzo Shimich, Kenny Seif, Ali Muhammad, Daniel Sondgren, Lior Rafalov, Gadi Kinda and Dean David.
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Maccabi Tel Aviv: Roi Mishfati, Avishai Cohen, Raz Shlomo, Derrick Lucassen, Matan Balatxa, Roy Rabivo, Yoris Van Overeem, Dor Peretz, Gabi Kanikovski, Dor Turgeman and Eran Zahavi.
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