MS Ashdod in crisis and there is no good way out of the crisis with an important victory. On Sunday (19:00, Bloomfield) when she is after four losses in a row (one in the State Cup), MS Ashdod will meet Nof Hagalil knowing that it must win in order to release pressure.
The team does not want to get entangled in the bottom again and after they have already left the red line and raised their heads, the goal is also to aim for the top playoffs.
Also, after the “home” game against Nof Hagalil, Ashdod will start a difficult away game against Betar Jerusalem, Hapoel Hadera and Bnei Sakhnin and then their series will open against the top three.
As mentioned, due to the grass problem at the 11th stadium, the game moved to Bloomfield, the team held most of the training this week, including weekend training at the stadium in Ashkelon.
Ran Ben Shimon will hope to get his brakemen Nenad Tsvetkovic and Timothy Avani, fit, when the Serb, suffered a muscle strain and Avani was ill.
Over the weekend they have both been training and the team hopes that they will be fit for tomorrow and together with Gil Cohen will form the brake trio.
The one who will be absent for sure is his young midfielder Hemlock who started in recent games, Hemlock tore his thigh muscle in the last game against Hapoel Haifa and will be absent in the near future.
The removed Or Inbrom will also not be available to the coach. Ran Ben Shimon’s dilemma is what to do up front, as there is disappointment from the ability of Bayou Fahd and Mogis Zakaria and in the last game even opened Kenny Saif as a striker.
The numbers are numbers
* Hapoel Nof Hagalil won 0: 2 in Green in the meeting between the two in the first round and now hopes to achieve a historic victory in Ashdod as well. Her balance sheet is there to this day in all settings: four losses and two 0: 0 results.
*tax. Ashdod comes after three consecutive league losses. She has not had four of these since October-November 2014, in the season at the end of which she was relegated to the national team. It could also be a third consecutive home loss, which has not happened since August-September 2017.
Nof Hagalil counts four consecutive losses and has been without a win for seven rounds, with its defense being the worst in the league with 24 assists. Ashdod immediately followed with 21 (like Bnei Sakhnin).
* Ashdod is one of the only two teams in the league (along with Hapoel Jerusalem) that have not yet scored a goal during the first quarter of an hour.
Estimated composition Ashdod: Yoav Jerfi, Zohar Zasno, Timothy Avani, Nenad Cvetkovich, Gil Cohen, Kamahani Montari, Naor Sabag, Atta Jaber, Muhammad Canaan, Matosinio, Kenny Saif.
2021-2022 Football Premier League table
Location Playing points
| 37 | 15 | Hapoel B’Sh | 1 |
| 35 | 15 | Maccabi Haifa | 2 |
| 26 | 16 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 3 |
| 25 | 15 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 4 |
| 22 | 15 | Bnei Sakhnin | 5 |
| 22 | 16 | Hapoel Haifa | 6 |
| 21 | 16 | Urban KS | 7 |
| 20 | 16 | Maccabi Netanya | 8 |
| 19 | 16 | Hapoel Hadera | 9 |
| 17 | 15 | MS Ashdod | 10 |
| 16 | 16 | Hapoel Jerusalem | 11 |
| 14 | 16 | Beitar Jerusalem | 12 |
| 13 | 15 | Galilee landscape | 13 |
| 10 | 16 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 14 |