Friday, direct on PLUS 5: The Great Rash Derby

A fascinating week of three tight cycles of games will be signed tomorrow (Friday), with the arrival of the 19th round in the Premier League in Handball – and at the center of the Rashti Derby to be held at the Maccabi House.

Maccabi Rishon LeZion – Hapoel Rishon LeZion (15:00, live broadcast on the sports channel)
There are three wins for the Yellows this season in Derby games (in the Judges Cup, in the first round and in the National Cup semifinals). And if that is not enough, for this encounter the two come in opposite tendencies. It is worth noting the following figure, Maccabi Conductor is not only in tremendous momentum (its last loss was recorded in the seventh round), it also scored in the 17 games that existed even more than all teams that have already had 18 games. In numbers, it stands at a whopping average of 32.1 goals a game.

Hapoel, who finished fourth, scored in her last five games, including in the state cup semifinal against the city opponent, averaging only 22.6 goals. If the Derby does not come as a surprise, Maccabi will take another step toward securing first place at the end of the regular season and home advantage throughout the playoffs. The worker, in the event of a loss, could fall to fifth place and be close to losing a home advantage already in the quarterfinals of the playoffs (which appears to be against Ramash).

Bnei Herzliya – Hapoel Ashdod (15:00)
The champion recovered from the loss to Maccabi Rasht on Friday with a win against Kiryat Motzkin after a four-goal backlog, but her roster is shortened due to Omri Kushmarou’s injury – which is also an easy blow ahead of the 17th Cup final against Maccabi Rasht. Herzliya suffered one of the season’s bizarre losses. She has already led on 5 points in the lead, but dropped defeated by 9 goals when she hit 43 overall, more than any team this season. A loss would eliminate her chances of qualifying for the playoffs.

Urban Streets – Holon MK (4 p.m.)
Streets has recovered well from a six-game losing streak, and is in the momentum of three wins that bring it closer to securing the spot in the top playoffs. Holon, with 6 wins and a draw in her last 7 games, only a point away from the summit (Holon will host Maccabi Rasht on Friday).

Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin – Beersheba MK (15:00)
Motzkin with 3 consecutive losses, dropping to ninth place leading to the lower playoffs. The SH list was on Friday against Hapoel Rasht, but looked very bad yesterday against Maccabi Rasht in the 38:26 home defeat. This is a critical game for both teams in contending for a place in the eighth.

Maccabi Dimona – Hapoel Kiryat Ono (14:00)
Table closing session (10 points separating the two). Dimona hopes to get first points, against UNO who is in a bad period (5 losses in the last 6 games).

AC Ness Ziona – ES Ramah (16:00)
The ref stopped the wave of losses with a win at Kiryat Ono, and returned to eighth place. On the other hand, with a new / old coach on the lines, Asaf Levy, and with two wins at Kiryat Motzkin and Herzliya, led by Dor Russo as a temporary coach. An HC victory may bring her to fourth place. Incidentally, an interesting detail belonging to the Sharon Derby held Tuesday (34:43) – Ramash and Herzliya threw together 125 shots, a pace of more than two per minute, and scored 77 goals in total – more than Occupied in every other league game this season.

If you add the game in the first round (33:34 PM) – 144 goals in 120 minutes were conquered in 120 minutes. Crazy, but no coincidence. That’s the rhetoric of the very unusual encounters between them. Last season the games ended in 40 : 40, and at 37:40 (157 goals in 120 minutes!), With another game of the Jury Cup signed at 35:37. Two years ago, one of the Sharon Derby meetings ended with a very high score – 36:41 (in fact at 5 p.m. League meetings in the last 3 seasons between them were scored 378 goals – an average of 75.6 goals per game!).

The youth team will meet at the European Championships Sweden, Spain and Hungary
Israel’s youth team was raffled at noon in the European Championship Games until the age of 18 in Slovenia, August 2 – together with the Sweden, Spain and Hungary teams (in the corresponding houses: House A – Iceland, Slovenia, Serbia and Italy. House C – Denmark, Germany, Norway and Russia (House IV – Croatia, France, Portugal, and Austria).

Coach Dvir Goldstein addressed the lottery: “Of course it is very difficult, but we will prepare and do our best to reach our goals. Sweden finished in the European Open until age 17 second. We met Spain and she beat us, and Hungary is a very strong team. All the teams in the European Championships are strong and high quality. ”

The reserve has already been drawn to the European Championships by the age of 20, which is expected to take place in July in Italy and Austria. She will be in the fourth house together with the German, Denmark and Hungary teams.