ONE | system 08/29/2024 17:33
Hapoel Tel Aviv players (Reuven Schwartz)
The second round of the National League will start tonight (Thursday, 19:00), and Moked Hapoel Tel Aviv, which lost in the opening round, will look for first points in a heated battle against Hapoel Petah Tikva at Bloomfield Stadium.
Hapoel Tel Aviv composition: Ruby Levkovitch, Ido Weir, Tal Archel, Or Israelov, Ziv Morgan, Goni Naor, Roy Alkokin, Ari Cohen, Stav Toriel, Liran Rothman and Milan McCaritch.
Hapoel Petach Tikva composition: Omer Katz, Matan Peleg, Charlemagne Azonituda, Itay Rothman, Dror Nir, Tomer Altman, Golan Bani, Elian Rohana, Amir Berkovitch, Tchepioka Songa, Ben Azouval.
This is not how Hapoel Tel Aviv expected to open the season. The Reds were already leading 1:0, but eventually surrendered in the last minutes to Hapoel Rishon Lezion and are now looking for first points among those relegated from the Premier League against Omer Peretz’s Malabasim, who recorded a successful opening with 1:2 against Umm Al Fahem.
Four other matches are being held at the same time, among them Bnei Yehuda against Hapoel Acre, Nof HaGilil against Hapoel Ramat Gan, MS Kfar Kasem against Hapoel Rishon Lezion and Kfar Shalem against Hapoel Ra’anana.