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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Football: Akko complete signing of Eli Zizov

Eli Zizov
Hapoel Akko have completed the signing of 22-year-old Israeli attacking midfielder, Eli Zizov. The deal will see Akko pay Maccabi Tel Aviv, the club which Zizov has been at since 2011, 50,000 Shekel.
Zizov, who in the past has also been in the books of Bulgarian club Levski Sofia and Portuguese giants S.C Braga, will be available for Akko's game against Bnei Yehuda on Saturday.

 Israeli Premier League Week 10 fixtures:
Sat23/11/13Maccabi Petah Tikva     vsBnei Sakhnin        at 17:00



Hapoel Haifa     vsMaccabi Tel Aviv  at 17:00



Hapoel Ra'anana     vsAshdod                  at 18:00



Hapoel Akko     vsBnei Yehuda         at 18:00



Beitar Jerusalem     vsIroni Kiryat Shmona at 19:30

Sun24/11/13Hapoel Tel Aviv     vsMaccabi Haifa       at 20:10

Mon25/11/13Hapoel Be'er Sheva     vsIroni Ramat HaSharon at 20:50


Israel Premier League Table:

#   Team MP W D L F A D P Last 5 matches
1 9 6 2 1 18 6 +12 20 D L W W D
2 9 6 2 1 17 8 +9 20 W W D L D
3 9 5 1 3 10 9 +1 16 L W W W L
4 9 4 3 2 16 6 +10 15 D W W L D
5 Previous rank: 6 9 3 5 1 9 7 +2 14 D W D L D
6 Previous rank: 5 9 4 2 3 10 9 +1 14 L W D W W
7 9 3 4 2 10 13 -3 13 L D L W D
8 Previous rank: 9 9 3 3 3 11 9 +2 12 W D D L D
9 Previous rank: 8 9 3 3 3 9 10 -1 12 D L D W D
10 9 3 2 4 10 9 +1 11 W L L W D
11 9 2 3 4 8 11 -3 9 D L D W W
12 9 1 4 4 10 16 -6 7 D D D L W
13 9 1 2 6 10 17 -7 5 D L D L L
14 9 0 2 7 4 22 -18 2 D D L L L
 

U-21's Football: Portugal edge past Israel in 7 goal thriller

Munas Dabbur celebrates after opening the scoring for Israel (ifa)
 
Israel's qualification hopes for Euro 2015 were slashed last night as they were defeated by Portugal, 4-3, in front of about 6,000 spectators at the Hamoshava Stadium in Petach Tikva. 
Israel took the lead (1-0) 9 minutes in, through a Munas Dabbur strike, but his goal was cancelled out just 7 minutes later when Ivan Cavaleiro received an aerial through ball from Luis Gustavo and slotted the ball between goalie, Barak Levi's legs.
Dia Saba on his 21st birthday returned the lead to Israel in the 55th minute (2-1) but goals from Ricardo and Bernando Silva in the 59th and 64th minute respectively handed the control back to Portugal (2-3). In the 74th minute Taleb Tawatha got on the end of an Eli Dasa cross to equalize for the Blue and White (3-3), But 4 minutes from time, a deflected Bernardo SIlva shot (4-3) handed the win to the Portuguese.
"I'm torn apart", said Israel's manager Michael Nees after the game, "On one side I am absolutely satisfied with the technical level at which we played, the pace with which we attacked and overall we played good football. On the other side we lost the game, so we only earn respect but no points".

 Group 8

PPts
Portugal Portugal412
Israel Israel59
FYROM FYROM34
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan54
Norway Norway53




Monday, November 18, 2013

Football: Israel U-21's face Portugal tonight in a vital Euro 2015 qualifier

Israel U-21's players celebrate during Friday's 4-1 victory
Tonight (at 19:30) Israel's U-21's will take on Portugal at the Hamoshava Stadium in their 5th Euro 2015 qualifying group 8 match following their 4-1 victory over Norway on Friday. The Blue and White enter tonight's game with an amazing 3.5 goals scored per game average in the current campaign but nevertheless were defeated 3-0 when they visited Portugal last month.
"We are not scared but we are realistic and we are self-confident", said Israel U-21's manager, Michael Nees, "If we bring our performance we have a good chance".
Munas Dabbur, who scored a hat-trick in Friday's win, added: "It will be a hard and interesting game, and that doesn't mean that it was easy against Norway. Portugal are a simply amazing team. We will come focused in order do what we need to do. I believe in the team".
Israel are expected to lineup tonight in a 4-4-2 formation with just 2 changes from Friday with Tal Khila switching Edi Gotlieb in defense and Ofir Mizrachi coming in for Gil Yitzhak in attack.

Israel U-21's expected lineup:
GK: Barak Levi, DF: Eli Dasa, Tal Khila, Ben Vehava, Taleb Twatiha, MF: Gadi Kinda, Lotem Zino, Roi Kehat, Omri Altman, FW: Ofir Mizrahi, Munas Dabbur

Group 8

PPts
Israel Israel49
Portugal Portugal39
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan54
FYROM FYROM34
Norway Norway53



(The game will be live on Sport5 from 19:30)