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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Israeli Premier League season starts with no surprises as holding champions Maccabi T.A beat Akko 2-0

Football:
Eran Zehavi scores Maccabi Tel Aviv's 2nd goal (maccabi t.a)
Maccabi Tel Aviv started the new season in the same way they finished the last, with a 2-0 win over Akko. The Yellows opened the game with fire, scoring both goals in the first 7 minutes of the match through Barak Yitzhaki in the 1st minute and Eran Zehavi in the 7th but then more or less fell asleep for the rest of the game. Meanwhile Hapoel Be'er Sheva who finished a disappointing 8th last season showed signs of a new beginning by beating Beitar Jerusalem 2-0. Be'er Sheva's first goal came from a Siraj Nassar header that was pushed by Beitar's goalie Ariel Harush into his own net. After a terrible first half from Beitar, they played much better in the 2nd and made a lot of goal-scoring chances including a shot from striker Omer Nachmani that rattled the crossbar. But all of Beitar's attempts to equalize were worthless when in the final minute of normal time Tomer Swisa took a free-kick that was supposed to be comfortably saved by Harush but the Israeli goalie let the ball slide off his hands and into the net for Be'er Sheva's second. Elsewhere Hapoel Haifa shut-out Ramat HaSharon with 2-0 win, Bnei Yehuda squeezed past Ashdod with a 1-0 win and newly promoted team Hapoel Ra'anana beat fellow newcomers Maccabi Petach Tikva 1-0.
On Sunday evening Hapoel Tel Aviv start their Premier League campaign with a home fixture against Bnei Sakhnin and Maccabi Haifa host Ironi Kiryat Shmona 3 days after beating Astra Giurgiu 2-0 in the Europa League.

All Saturday Premier League Results:
Akko 0-2 Maccabi Tel Aviv 
Hapoel Ra'anana 1-0 Maccabi Petach Tikva 
Hapoel Ramat HaSharon 0-2 Hapoel Haifa 

Bnei Yehuda 1-0 M.S Ashdod 
Beitar Jerusalem 0-2 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 


Sunday Premier League Fixtures:
Hapoel Tel Aviv vs Bnei Sakhnin (at 20:00) Live on Sport1
Maccabi Haifa vs Ironi Kiryat Shmona (at 21:00) Live on Channel 1

  

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