Advio Adley (Reuven Schwartz)
After a mediocre first round, the two newcomers to the Premier League, Hapoel Jerusalem and Hapoel Nof Hagalil, meet at Teddy Stadium at this time, trying to open the second round on the right foot and escape some more from the burning bottom, as part of the league’s 14th round.
Ziv Arieh’s team is in a bad period, when it has already recorded five consecutive games without a win in all competitions and in the last game it was eliminated from the state cup after 2: 0 to Maccabi Haifa by Sami Ofer. The team from the capital is ranked in the penultimate place in the table, with only 11 points behind it and it will have to increase the rate of accumulating points if it does not want to return to the National League at the end of the season. Idan Shemesh, Awka Eshta, Aluzhou Yao and Gal Mayo with the flu. They came out negative for the corona test, but all four are not on the roster for the game.
On the other hand, after opening the season wonderfully, Yaron Hochnaboim’s team is in a very difficult period and has already counted six consecutive games without a win in all competitions, when it recently suffered a 2-0 home win over Maccabi Petah Tikva and was eliminated from the state cup in the eighth round. Nof Hagalil is ranked 11th in the table, just two points above Hapoel Jerusalem below the red line.
The two teams met in the first round of the season after returning to the Premier League in a festive encounter that ended in a disappointing 0-0 draw. The last time the two met before was in the top playoffs of the National League, so the meeting ended 1-1.
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- The referee of the game, Gal Leibowitz, set the match in motion
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