Maccabi Tel Aviv

Team effort powers yellow-and-blue’s comeback • Reds eye adjustments in best-of-3 finals

While the capital city Reds won’t be favored, they certainly will be coming into Yad Eliyahu for Game 1 with a chip on their shoulders and with something to prove.

Harper punctuates furious rally with game-winning 3 • Reds to face Mac Tel Aviv in finals

“I think overall I really liked the way we played,” Oded Katash said. “We didn’t start as we wanted to, but that was to be expected after a two-week break.

Yellow-and-blue blows out Beitar to edge Beersheba • Zahavi nets brace in final game with club

Hapoel Beersheba draw with Beitar Jerusalem puts yellow-and-blue in driver’s seat with a game left.

Hapoel Jerusalem and Hapoel Tel Aviv, who already advanced, will face off in the other best-of-three semifinal series.

“The first thing that I think about when it comes to these things is how grateful I am,” Jake Cohen said.

Though there was a mutual option to extend his contract, Zahavi independently chose to step away, marking the end of his second stint with the club.

Bnei Herzliya fended off elimination with a home win over Holon to force Game 4, while Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Jerusalem advanced to the semifinals with 3-0 series sweeps.

Maccabi Petah Tikva’s drop and Ironi Tiberias’ survival highlight the latest Israeli soccer relegation playoffs.