After taking four points from Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Beer Sheva, Kiryat Shmona is on the wave and can once again dream of the top playoff. At this time, the Northerners are hosting Hapoel Jerusalem in the 24th round of the Premier League and hope to get three more points that will bring them closer to the center of the table.
As mentioned, Slobodan Drapic’s team is in positive momentum. It came back from Turner with 0: 0 against Hapoel Beer Sheva and before that they defeated Maccabi Haifa 1: 2 at home in what was the third loss in the Greens’ total. These two games interrupted a streak of three losses for the team from the Upper Galilee and got it back on track.
Ziv Arieh’s team also arrived in a good mood and after a victory. In the last round, they recorded a 0: 2 home win over MS Ashdod from goals by Goni Naor and Eduardo Guerrero. That stopped a streak of eight games without a win, in which she scored just two points. The victory over Ashdod gave the Reds from the capital the place above the red line and they hope to stay there even at the end of the current cycle.
In the previous game between the teams, which was held at Teddy Stadium, Urbani Kiryat Shmona won 0: 1 thanks to a quick goal by Stefan Milosevic in the first minute. It should be noted that Hapoel Jerusalem is the worst foreign team in the league and has not yet won outside of Teddy, recording seven losses and four draws – one particularly prestigious against Maccabi Haifa in Sami Ofer.