The 4: 0 defeat in the previous round to MS Ashdod sat in the minds of the Maccabi Netanya players for quite some time. In closed conversations in recent days, the players talked about the desire for sporting revenge and yesterday it was expressed. Not in a big football game, but Gabi Kanikovsky’s three flashes led the Diamonds to a 3: 0 victory last night (Saturday) over MS Ashdod.
Kanikowski, who will be sold in the summer, raised his tally to six goals and six assists this season that helped the team qualify for sixth place in the table and mostly kept them away from a double-digit number of points from the red line, to which they were close until two rebounds.
Dutch coach Raymond Atfeld has won compliments for managing the game. Atfeld, who was forced to join the second team without Chen Ezra, who suffered a blow to the knee, and Zlatan Shachovich, who complained of muscle tenderness, gave the credit to Rotem Keller and Ayalon Yerushalmi, who did not disappoint. Captain Almog Cohen who came up again as a brake and Danny Amos again gave a lot of quiet to the back.
Despite the victory and the fact that Netanya kept a clean sheet for a second game in a row, Almog Cohen’s lack of linking and the need for another senior stopper led the Diamonds to submit a formal bid for Shir Tzedek. The club offered the Hapoel B’Shlosha a relatively low offer for the sums he earns at BS, but in light of the fact that he has not been included in Yossi Aboksis’ squad for a long time, it is not impossible that BS will supplement his salary.
The team from the Negev capital has done this in the past, with defender Ben Bitton moving to Hapoel Tel Aviv and arriving with his former team for financial compensation in exchange for allowing the contract. “A young team also needs experienced players, Danny Amos, Chen Ezra and Almog Cohen. A song of justice can help us a lot, “the club said.
In addition, a rare incident occurred this morning at Ben Gurion Airport: Abubakar Dombia, the contact who agreed in the Netanya uniform and could not land due to the hermetic closure imposed on the State of Israel and the closure of the port, landed in Israel. Netanya managed to turn to the right pipes, and Domvia, who played in the second division in Finland, will undergo medical tests – which, if completed successfully, will sign and join the team’s training.
