Maccabi Haifa thumped Ashdod 5-0 as super striker Frantzdy Pierrot scored four goals in the first half to put away and hand the Greens the 3-points on the road. Messay Dego’s squad got on the board early as Pierrot slotted home the opening goal from a Sean Goldberg pass in the 7th minute, however, ten minutes later Ezekiel Henty was sent off for Ashdod with a straight red card leaving the port city squad with just ten men for the balance of the match.
Pierre Conrad took advantage of the extra man as he found the back the goal in the 22nd minute and three minutes later Anan Khalaili found Pierrot for his second marker of the game for a 3-0 lead. Gadi Kinda then helped orchestrate Pierrot’s third and fourth goals before the break to wrap up an easy 5-0 victory.
“We played really well and we knew that we were playing against a team that was going to fight for their lives,” Dego said after the win. “But we now have to keep going on. Frantzdy always looks to do his best for the club and he is a player of the highest of levels. He is very modest and I really appreciate him and the guys like him very much.”
Frantzdy Pierrot spoke about his four goal game, “This is the first time in may career that I scored four goals in a game, it’s a great feeling. The fans are always there for us wherever we play, good or bad and it’s always emotional as they wanted this for me and I wanted to do it for them. I am just trying to do what I can for the team because the most important part is to win games. I know I will get the opportunity if I work hard. I give credit to all my teammates because without them I wouldn’t have been able to score the four goals. For strikers there are ups and downs and when the right time comes you have to just keep working.”
“It’s a horrible feeling and to lose the game in teh first half is awful,” Ashdod coach Elii Levy said. “I want to apologize to the fans for this. Maccabi Haifa is so much better than us and we wanted to cut down the gap between the two teams but now we have to look towards the next game and move on.”
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