The Hapoel Tel Aviv Sentinel
Match26 Dec 2026
Whatever happens, Hapoel Tel Aviv do not lose
14 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market28 Dec 2026
Nemanja Ljubisavljević puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hapoel Tel Aviv, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Nemanja Ljubisavljević keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hapoel Tel Aviv may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Hapoel Tel Aviv
Marcus Coco was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match26 Dec 2026
Hapoel Tel Aviv make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match26 Dec 2026
The run is over for Hapoel Tel Aviv
6 matches without defeat, and then Maccabi Petach Tikva. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Hapoel Tel Aviv lose Ynal Bazdog
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Looking ahead28 Dec 2026
Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa meet at the summit
The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Roei Alkukin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Loan watch El Yam Kancepolsky has seen enough of Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
- The dugout Nir Hemed: “We have to be better”
- Squad Daniel Dappa, 19, is the weekend’s best young player