Maccabi Haifa is currently hosting Hapoel Tel Aviv for the main game of the 23rd round of the Premier League. The Greens, who lost in the previous round to Kiryat Shmona after 16 league games without a loss, do not want to allow Hapoel Beer Sheva and Maccabi Tel Aviv to get closer, while the opponent in the red is trying to recover from the loss in the derby.
Precisely after the crushing 0: 6 against Ashdod, in perhaps its best game of the season, the champion lost away to the players of Slobodan Drapic and now leads the league by only one point from Hapoel Beer Sheva II, and five points from Maccabi Tel Aviv III, which suddenly seems to have returned To struggle.
On the other hand, Kobi Refuah wonderfully opened his term with a winning streak, but in the last three games the Tel Aviv Reds lost to Hapoel Hadera (1: 0), Sakhnin (1: 0) and as mentioned in the Tel Aviv derby, where they absorbed 3: 2 in extra time. A surprise win over the Greens will definitely bring the Reds closer to the top playoffs.
Maccabi Haifa holds a streak of five victories over Hapoel Tel Aviv, four in the league and another in the Toto Cup. The previous game between the two this season ended in 1: 3 for Barak Bachar’s team in Bloomfield, when the Reds’ last victory over the opponent came in May 2020, so Moti Bershetsky and Omar Damari gave 1: 2.