The lower playoff struggles in the Premier League continue, and at this time Maccabi Petah Tikva is hosted by the Kiryat Shmona team for an intriguing battle, with the Malabes desperate for points while the Northerners are interested in getting closer to ensuring their stay.
Slobodan Drapic’s team ended the regular season with a sweet taste when they defeated MS Ashdod 0: 2, and they have 33 points, 21 more than Nir Klinger’s team which is below the red line and closed the table in no small part of the season.
From the other side of the situation, the visitors lost 1: 0 to Bnei Sakhnin in the closing round, but before that they defeated Hapoel Hadera and MS Ashdod twice in a row, when in both cases they even scored fours, which gave the team a lot of wind.
In the meetings that took place earlier this season, Maccabi Petah Tikva celebrated with 0: 3 in Kiryat Shmona in the Toto Cup, in the league the meeting at Shlomo Bituach Stadium ended in 1: 1 and in the home of the Northerners we got a 0: 1 victory at the end of December from a late goal by Yadin Lugassi in the 94th minute .