So close, Ashdod!
By Amir Ragporker

19.10.2002,
Matchday 5 was online in the Israeli Ligat-HaAL. Maccabi Haifa grabs a hard win at Ashdod. Hapoel Tel Aviv beat BNYI Yehouda 4-1. Maccabi Tel Aviv continued the recovery against Kfar Saba the sinking team. Bietar Jerusalem keeps the bad form after another home loss and Rishon Lezion gets a wonderful win at Petach Tikva against Hapoel Petach Tikva.


keep on losing! Itzhak Zoher Bietar Jerusalem's star started on the bench and his face says it all.

MS Ashdod 2 - Maccabi Haifa 3
the Israeli Champions struggled a lot before taking their second away win in the league. Haifa will face Leverkusen in Wednesday but if they want to win they have to play much better. Maccabi Haifa opened the game well when Ajipor found the post. But MS Ashdod started the game even better and in the 12th minute Alfasi crossed from the right to David Revivo, that from 3 meters headed the ball into the net. Where was Awate? 1-0 to Ashdod.
2 minutes later Kessi crossed a ball from the left to the box, MS Ashdod's defence dreamt about the goal they scored and the ball hit Adir Tobol, Ashdod's center defender, before getting into the net, 1-1.
In the 26th minute Milevski brought Yakobo down in the box. Zanu took the penalty again and again couldn’t score from the spot, still 1-1. 4 minutes later MS Ashdod where up 2-1. Revivo lifted a free kick, Awate couldn’t get it and Hazan passed to Regbar that from 1 meter and no goalkeeper scored easily.
Before the half Badir equalized the score with a header after Pralija's pass into the box, 2-2.
8 minutes to the gong Rosu crossed a corner kick to the box, Kessi headed the ball to Benado and the center defender shot went to the net, 3-2 to Maccabi Haifa at the end.
2 minutes to the final whistle Milevski went to an early shower after getting a second yellow card.
Haifa's defence and goalkeeper need to be much better at the Bey-Arina in the mid week fixture against Leverkusen. MS Ashdod needs to bring a new center defender because Milevski played really bad although remember that Ashdod didn’t play with Balaic the center defender, Ishtevan Pishont the center midfielder, Fadida and Azran. MS Ashdod can look at this game and feel good. At the end another good match.

Bietar Jerusalem 1 - Maccabi Petach Tikva 3
Remember the name Gal Alberman, because he is the man. Only 19 years old but what a talent, "Tedi" is a scary place but not for the youngster that scored 2 goals, in Jerusalem.
Bietar needs to make changes at all of their positions, including the coach. Eli Cohen just can't manage a team like Bietar Jerusalem, the team is too good for him. Eli Cohen in "Passe", Bietar need someone like Shlomo Sherf or Ori Malmilian. How can Eli put Zoher on the bench?
The game opened with Petach Tikva's control, in the 14th minute Alberman his first from 13 meter after a nice move by all Maccabi Petach Tikva. Del-Rio kept Bietar Jerusalem in the game with a goal in the 25 minute from 25 meter. 8 minutes later Alberman scored his second on the night after a great pass by Malihi. The 3rd goal came in the 42nd minute, Alberman drove Bietar Jerusalem's defence insane and passed a wonderful ball to Ansombo, who didn’t mix up and scored.
Bietar Jerusalem second home loss in 2 games while Petach Tikva take her first win this year.
David Amsalem (Bietar Jerusalem's left back):"I am shame in the way we played and sorry for our fans"
Gal Alberman (Maccabi Petach Tikva): "I came to do my job like I should and with my friends we won. Now we need to think how we will get another 3 points next week".

Maccabi Tel Aviv 3 - Hapoel Kfar Saba 0
The yellow team is back! Yes, Maccabi Tel Aviv takes a second win in a row. But the biggest news is the good form of Avi Nimni. The true leader of Maccabi still need to be more affective but in this game he had some fine moves like he used to. With Avi Nimni we could find Reoven Oved, the magician made some fine moves that took Maccabi Tel Aviv up.
Oved was involved in all Maccabi's goals. First of all Oved passed to Biton that ran in the right wing, crossed a nice ball to Prohanenkovas that from 5 meters rolled the ball comfortably in, 1-0 to Maccabi Tel Aviv after 9 minutes. Half hour into the match came the second one, Oven vanished 3 Kfar Saba's players, got into the box and passed an ankle pass to Biton. The Israeli wasn’t afraid and smashed the ball in from short range. The 3rd goal came up the 57th minute, Oven found Prohanenkovas who squeezed his second goal, 3-0 to Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Maccabi and Hapoel had some nice chances but the score stayed the same. Maccabi Tel Aviv needs to keep the good work. Tal Banin the captain of the Israeli national team still started on the bench after poor performance. He has to be better if Maccabi want to take Championship. Hapoel Kfar Saba looks like no man land after they lost 3 points due to double contracts. They have now -2 points! God help them.


now they can celebrate, Maccabi Tel Aviv.

 

Hapoel Petach Tikva 2 - Irony Rishon Lezion 3
Great match between two nice and optimistic teams. Irony Rishon Lezion started well with a goal by Moshe Sabag after Holtzman's pass, 1-0 to Irony after 32 minutes. 2 minutes in the second half Dovrovin passed to Edri that against Yaniv Mizrahi equalized.
6 minutes later Yehiel brought Menashe down in the box. Holtzman scored from the spot and made it 2-1 to Irony Rishon Lezion. 7 minutes later, 3-1, after Albert passed nicely to Holtzman and the striker stopped the ball with his chest and smashed it into the net. 3 minutes later another penalty, Mizrahi Irony Rishon Lezion's keeper fouled Kakon in the box. The historic striker of Hapoel Petach Tikva made it 2-3 from the spot. After the goal the game wasn’t so good and Hapoel Petach Tikva suffered a bad game by Rozen, Aliav and Dovrovin.
Irony Rishon Lezion take a good win because a great performance by Holtzman. Vazinski the new foreign played good too like Moshe Sabag. If the good stuff will continue Rishon can be relaxed. Hapoel Petach Tikva goes behind enemy line after dropping to only one position before the last.

All Saturday's results:
BNYI Yehouda Tel Aviv 1 - Hapoel Tel Aviv 4
MS Ashdod 2 - Maccabi Haifa 3
Maccabi Tel Aviv 3 - Hapoel Kfar Saba 0
Bietar Jerusalem 1 - Maccabi Petach Tikva 3
Hapoel Petach Tikva 2 - Irony Rishon Lezion 3

Tomorrow: Maccabi Natanya- Hapoel Beer Sheva

points

goal def.

loss

drew

wins

games

team

pos

13

12-5

0

1

4

5

Hapoel Tel Aviv

1

12

12-3

0

0

4

4

Maccabi Haifa

2

10

6-1

0

1

3

4

Hapoel Beer Sheva

3

9

8-4

2

0

3

5

Maccabi Tel Aviv

4

7

7-9

2

1

2

5

BNYI Yehouda

5

6

6-5

0

3

1

4

Natanya

6

5

6-6

1

2

1

4

Rishon

7

4

7-10

3

1

1

5

Jerusalem

8

4

5-8

3

1

1

5

Ashdod

9

4

6-11

3

1

1

5

Maccabi Petach Tikva

10

3

8-10

4

0

1

5

Hapoel Petach Tikva

11

-2

3-14

4

1

0

5

Hapoel Kfar Saba

12

 

DiD u Know: 4 win in a row is the best start of Maccabi Haifa ever.

 

 

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