28.8.2002,
After all the excitement from Maccabi Haifa's game against Gratz, all eyes will torn to Tel Aviv. Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv will play in their UEFA cup second leg.

Maccabi Tel Aviv will play at home against the Estonian side, Labdia Talin. Although Maccabi Tel Aviv won the first match at Estonia 2-0 they didn't to finish the job yet. Remember that the home game of Maccabi will take place at Sofia and not in Israel. Maccabi Tel Aviv excepts 200 funs from Israel to be at the Bulgarian stadium. Everybody believes that Maccabi Tel Aviv will be at the next stage because Talin are very weak team. We all know that if Maccabi Tel Aviv will be in the next round they will get much stronger team and wont walk easily thought.
Maccabi Tel Aviv still misses their star, Avi Nimni that will be back in about two weeks. Mauritcio Aros the new left back wont play at the match because he arrived late (only this week). Meanwhile Abu Siam the youngster will play as left back.

still can play, Avi Nimni

In talin section they don’t really believe they can do it. But they want to score goal or two to make some honor.

Maccabi Tel Aviv starting lineup: Shtraober; Strol, Ben Haim, Brumer, Abu Siam; Flian, Banin, Degu, Biton; Goldberg, Prohanenkovas.

Meanwhile Hapoel Tel Aviv needs to work harder then they thought against Partizani Tirana from Albania. Hapoel Tel Aviv looked very calm in spite of only 1-0 win over Tirana two weeks ago. Everyone in Hapoel Tel Aviv believes that they can score an early goal that will be probably enough to put Hapoel in the next round. Remember Hapoel Tel Aviv went last year till the quarterfinal.
Igak Antebi cry some injury but will play. Also Asi domb will play after a big injury it means that Alon Halfon will be back to the bench. But it seems like Kashtan doesn't have a lot of injury problems and all the big names should play. It would mean that Balili would still be on the bench.
Hapoel Tel Aviv: Rahamin; Halis, Gershon, Domb, Antebi; Abuksis, Holmay, Loz, Toama, afek; Klashenko.

Did U know: Rahamin Hapoel Tel Aviv keeper played only one full match in UEFA cup campaign last year. But if he will play in this game he already has 2.

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