Given that the Premier League will indeed return to activity on January 23, as planned, Maccabi Tel Aviv expects a sequence of not simple games at all. First she will be hosted by Maccabi Netanya (Saturday), four days later she will meet Maccabi Haifa in Bloomfield, and five days Yossi Aboksis and Hapoel Beer Sheva will be waiting for her. Thus, the Yellows want to arrive as prepared as possible and without too many staff problems.
A certain player that Maccabi Tel Aviv hopes to train for the challenging series of games is Dan Glazer, who has not yet returned to training due to an injury to his abdominal muscles that requires complete rest. The midfielder has not actually trained since before the game against Maccabi Petah Tikva, so he was replaced in the half. The ambition is to gradually return him to training early next week, hoping the pain will not be overwhelming so that he will be fit after the quarantine.
Maor Kandil also carries the same type of injury, and like Glazer he too may be fit after the closure. Who else is set to be on Patrick Van Leven’s squad with the league’s return to action is Andre Geralds, the Yellows’ new-old Portuguese defender, who is expected to adapt well at the club. Dor Peretz will miss the game of the season against Maccabi Haifa due to the accumulation of five yellow cards.
Maccabi Tel Aviv will try to extend the streak of games without a draw to six in number after the forced break, after conceding 15 goals in the first ten games. The Yellows did stop in the last game before the break (0: 0 against Bnei Yehuda), but before that they achieved three consecutive victories under Van Levon, which led them to their natural place at the top (second place, 8 points away from the leader).
