The 17th round of the Premier League opens at this time with a heated battle between Maccabi Netanya, which must win to avoid getting stuck at the bottom, and Bnei Sakhnin, which wants to stop its deterioration and return to the fight for a place in the top playoffs.
The diamonds are not in a good time to say the least. Although Ran Kozhuk steadied the ship after the unusual series of losses and the departure of Bnei Lam, the host still fails to enter a positive momentum and has not won the league for almost two months. So, MS Ashdod prevailed 2:3, so the yellow-blacks must not lose points, otherwise the journey back to the top will be much more difficult.
On the other hand, the guest is not in a good time either. The team from the sector has not won in its last four games while in the league it has not won since October. In addition, in the last game, the trainees of Meriva suffered a painful 5:0 against Maccabi Tel Aviv in the quarter-finals of the State Cup. In order for the upper playoffs not to get further away, Sakhnin must take points in today’s game.
In the ten meetings between the teams, the Diamonds came out with the upper hand no less than six times, while on the other hand four other meetings ended without a decision. Sakhnin’s last victory was in January 2016, somewhere seven years ago.