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Netanya players celebrate (Nisan Aish)
The 25th round of the Premier League started today (Saturday) and the league is rapidly approaching the end of the regular season. After the round is completed with the hot match between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Tel Aviv tomorrow and the Haifa derby on Monday, there will be one game left for each team until the end of the regular season, when before the closing round of the regular season everything is still open and the fight to enter the top six is at its peak.
Maccabi Netanya
Although they were stopped today after five consecutive victories with 2:2 against Kiryat Shmona, the diamonds of Ran Kozhuk, who are placed in fourth place with 37 points, secured their ascension to the top playoffs due to MS Ashdod’s loss of points against Bnei Sakhnin. Netanya will host Ashdod in the lockout round.
Remaining game:
MS Ashdod (home)
Hapoel Jerusalem
The surprise of the season undoubtedly came from the Bloomfield Stadium, when the Reds from the capital recorded a heroic turnaround and beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 1:2. After the surprising victory, Ziv Aryeh’s team is placed in fifth place with 36 points in their balance sheet. A home draw in the next round against Benny Reina will be enough for her to secure the top playoff.
Remaining game:
Maccabi Bnei Rayna (home)
MS Ashdod
The team from the port city arrived in great shape for tonight’s game against Bnei Sakhnin at the 11th Stadium, but stopped after three consecutive victories in all the frames and parted with the team from the sector in a 1:1 draw. Now Ran Ben Shimon’s team is in sixth place with 33 points, while Beitar Jerusalem can pass them in the table if they beat Hapoel Tel Aviv tomorrow. In the closing round of the regular season, Ashdod will host Netanya.
Remaining game:
Maccabi Netanya (outside)
Beitar Jerusalem
The team from the capital already saw the top playoffs within touching distance, but after taking a point in the last two games against Haifa, they deteriorated out of the top playoff picture. Now, the Jerusalemites are in seventh place with 31 points and their victory tomorrow against Hapoel Tel Aviv will raise them back to the top six.
The remaining games:
Hapoel Tel Aviv (home)
Bnei Sakhnin (foreign)
Hapoel Haifa
The team from Carmel has the slimmest chance of qualifying for the top playoffs. She is now in eighth place with 29 points and two very difficult games await her, a derby against Maccabi Haifa and a game against Maccabi Tel Aviv. The red-blacks don’t depend on themselves and two wins won’t guarantee them a position in the top six at the end of the regular season either.
The remaining games:
Maccabi Haifa (outside)
Maccabi Tel Aviv (home)
