2024-02-07 09:25:41
Doron Ben Dor 07/02/2024 11:06
Roni Levy Add only one player (Shahar Gross)
Hapoel Haifa never dreamed of opening a season like the current one. With 18 points remaining in the pot until the end of the regular league, the team is in third place with only five points less than the leader and city rival Maccabi Haifa when the two teams have to meet in two weeks for a fascinating derby.
Haifa, unlike many teams, made only one acquisition in the transfer window in the form of the Belarusian striker Dmitri Antilevsky, while at the same time they released another striker, Shuval Gozlan to Hapoel Petah Tikva.
The team from Carmel wanted to add a foreign or Israeli midfielder and worked to do so, but in the end this did not come to fruition and this may be a hindrance in the difficult struggles expected of them in the top playoffs.
Antilevsky (Instagram)
The alternatives that Roni Levy found in the back link, except for Noor Sebag, which is his original role, are the alternating placement of Dor Malol, who is originally a defender, of Itamar Noy, who is originally an attacking midfielder, or of one of the defenders, Denis Polyakov or Hatem Abdel Hamid, who is recovering from injury and may very soon return to the rotation.
At the same time as the small window in January, Roni Levy’s team knew how not to make mistakes and sell right now Noam Ben Harosh who is returning from Maccabi Tel Aviv and Itai Boganim, who also had courtships from several teams that were rejected.
Hatem Abdel Hamid. Will return to fitness soon (Omari Stein)
In any case, the team has already put the transfer window behind them and is preparing for the game against Hapoel Jerusalem in the next round, at the end of which a victory may practically guarantee them a place in the top playoffs.
In Hapoel Haifa they say that the narrowing of the gap to only five points from the top drove the team’s fans into a frenzy who fantasize about repeating the championship season from 25 years ago. So far the team is showing the best start to the season since the championship season, with better figures than the cup winning season in 2017/2018.
Hapoel Haifa players celebrate (Shahar Gross)
Yesterday (Tuesday), the club launched a special sale of subscriptions for eight games, three until the end of the regular season and five more in the playoff games for adults and at special prices for children up to the age of 12 (NIS 195), when so far close to a hundred subscriptions have been sold in 24 hours.
“Compared to other years when the departure of Hanan Maman and Maksim Falkushchenko in the transfer window weakened the team, this time Yoav Katz and the team were able to preserve the staff and outstanding players and this is our best reinforcement for the rest of the season,” said a source in the team.
Hapoel Haifa fans (Omari Stein)
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