Moshe Barda
Angelo Cloiaro (Itzik Belnitsky)
Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv will meet tomorrow (Sunday, 21:00) for the big and second derby of the season in the Winner Basket League. The champion of Yannis Sapropoulos has chosen not to list Angelo Cloiaro, Tyler Dorsey and Dragon Bender. Danny Franco’s Reds, who returned to play for the first time last Thursday after the national team break, actually lost twice in the game against Ness Ziona, both in the meeting itself and afterwards when the new acquisition player Justin Tillman was injured and absent.
The two teams come in a completely different format in terms of the local arena. The state champion is ranked first with a balance of 13 wins versus three losses, while its urban rival is ranked above the red line but very complicated at the bottom which becomes more burning from moment to moment. Franco’s trainees have a balance of three wins against 10 losses and when his team has the same number of victories as Nahariya.
In the game against Ness Ziona, the haunted season of Hapoel Tel Aviv continued with the injury of Tillman if it was the debut game in the red and white uniform. Tillman asked for a replacement after he was injured in the same foot in which he was injured while playing for Hapoel Gilboa / Galil. As you may recall, Hapoel is in the market to find a coordinator, and after signing eight foreign players this season, the margin of error that the team can afford anyway does not exactly exist and if Tillman’s injury turns out to be serious, it will be another blow in a season of injuries and foreign exchange.
