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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Beitar snatch first win whilst Be'er Sheva remain perfect

Football:
The Beitar team, before yesterday's game in Petach Tikva (beitar)
After last weekends poor start to the Israeli Premier League season in which just 12 goals were scored in all 7 of the games making an average of just 1.71 per game (the worst average for an opening week in the last 25 years, besides the 07/08 season), the teams started to show off more of their attacking power this weekend and put together 14 goals with 2 games still to be played on Sunday evening). Beitar Jerusalem took their first win of the season by defeating Maccabi Petach Tikva 3-1 in front of a crowd of over 5000 fans, of which most were Beitar's, despite the fact that this was an away game. Beitar's goalie, Ariel Harush, continued his bad form that hung over him last week, when both the goals that the Jerusalemites let in against Be'er Sheva were in some way his fault, and just 40 seconds into this match he pushed a incoming shot from Gidi Kanyuk straight towards the feet of Petach Tikva's captain, Omer Golan, who easily rolled the ball into the back of the net. Beitar hit back with fire. In the 19th minute their new striker, Itzik Cohen, was taken down in the box and Shai Hadad scored the penalty. 5 minutes into the 2nd half, Cohen himself grabbed a goal wheb Eli Dasa found his head from the wing and the Israeli striker knocked the ball past 'keeper, Neil Abarbanel, and in. Beitar grabbed their 3rd, two minutes from time when Teteh Bangura squared the ball to Zahi Elichen who hit it first time into the half-open goal. Meanwhile Hapoel Be'er Sheva showed that they mean business this season as they went out and defeated Hapoel Tel Aviv 2-0 at home, through goals from Siraj Nassar and Elyaniv Barda. Elsewhere Ironi Kiryat Shmona defeated Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon 4-1, Bnei Sakhnin took a 1-0 win over Hapoel Akko and Hapoel Ra'anana were held to a 1-1 draw by Hapoel Haifa.

Sunday Fixtures:
Ashdod vs Maccabi Haifa (at 20:00)
Maccabi Tel Aviv vs Bnei Yehuda (at 21:00)




  

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