The match-up and the past: Towards Holon – Hapoel Haifa

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Guy Goodes in Hapoel Holon's training (Shahar Gross)

Guy Goodes in Hapoel Holon’s training (Shahar Gross)

In the shadow of the Corona eruption and the games that have already been postponed, tonight (Sunday, 21:00) the first game of the quarterfinals of the Tower Cup in basketball will take place. The other three games have already been postponed due to the omicron, and in fact what is left at this stage is the meeting between Hapoel Holon and Hapoel Haifa at Toto Hall.

The teams have met twice in Holon in the cup in the past and twice Haifa has won. In the 67/1966 season it ended in a 73:79 victory, when the factory did not come to an end due to the Six Day War. In the eighth stage of the final in the 89/88 season, it was 93:95 for Haifa, when Guy Goodes scored 10 points for the team from Carmel. Holon will try to reach the semi-finals for the fifth time in the last six seasons, while Hapoel Haifa was there recently in the 1998/98 season.

Hapoel Haifa players celebrate (Omri Stein)Hapoel Haifa players celebrate (Omri Stein)

This season: This is Guy Goodes’ first home game and again a relegation game. After the victory in Besiktas on Wednesday, another game that is irreversible awaits Goodes and this time the national team coach will meet his friend Elad Hussein, the youth team coach. Will Daniels, Haifa’s new foreigner, did not register for the game. Holon is second in the league table with a balance of 5: 8, just like Herzliya, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Galil Elyon.

Holon postponed its last game in the league against Hapoel Tel Aviv, before which it was defeated by Hapoel Eilat 85:60. On the other hand, Hapoel Haifa is eighth in the table and with a balance of 6: 6 and its last game was against Eilat, in which it won 71:89. The teams met in the eighth round of the league, so in Romema Haifa won 76:83 with 21 points by Kadim Allen, against 21 by Stephen Gray who no longer wears purple-yellow.

It will also be a meeting between the two Israelis with the most points in the league: Guy Pnini, King of Victory Baskets, is ranked 38th with 4,085 points and Amit Simhon is ranked 79th with 2,865 points. Pnini has 11 trophies in his career, the last in 2018 with Holon, Simhon is still looking for a bachelor’s degree in his career.

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