Maccabi Netanya
While Maccabi Netanya is preparing for its upcoming league game tomorrow (Monday) against Bnei Sakhnin (20:00, Sport3), the team announced this morning that in the Corona tests conducted on Friday, Shir Tzedek and Abubkar Dombia were diagnosed as verified for Corona. Both players are feeling well and are now in isolation, the rest of the players and staff are negative to the virus. Maccabi Netanya comes into the game after five games without a loss, but after two consecutive draws, hoping to return to the winning track.
Trivia
* There were 36 meetings between the teams in the Premier League, with Maccabi Netanya leading 6:13 in victories and another 17 games ending in a draw (eight of them in 0: 0).
* Bnei Sakhnin has not beaten Maccabi Netanya in the last eight league meetings, since the 0: 2 away away in January 2016 (pair of Firas Mugrabi).
* Maccabi Netanya is unbeaten in the last five rounds, although it comes after two draws. Three of these in a row? This has not happened to her since January-February 2019.
* Guy Melamed, who scored 17 league goals in two seasons in the Maccabi Netanya uniform, celebrated his only hat-trick in his career (1: 6 by Hapoel Beer Sheva in May 2018) and scored his first goal in the Sakhnin uniform (in a 3: 1 loss in the first round).
Saturday results:
Hapoel Tel Aviv – Hapoel Nof Hagalil 2: 2
Hapoel Haifa – Maccabi Petah Tikva 2: 2
Hapoel Jerusalem – Maccabi Tel Aviv 3: 1