Maccabi Tel Aviv walloped Hapoel Hadera 6-0 as Oscar Glouch scored a first half brace and assisted on an Eran Zahavi strike to take the win and the 3-points. Zahavi opened the scoring as he took Glouch pass, turned and then scored to give the yellow-and-blue a 1-0 lead in the 17th minute. Just a minute latter Djorde Jovanovic sent Glouch on his way for his first of two and then in the 20th minute he completed the brace for a lighting quick 3-0 lead.

Enric Saborit took a Zahavi ball to give the visitors a 4-0 lead by the 26th minute. Jovanovic scored as well as time wound down while Dor Peretz headed home a Gaby Kanichowsky ball in the 90th minute to finish off an overwhelming 6-0 victory.

“We played well just a few days after the Nice game where we went 120 minutes,” Maccabi coach Vladen Ivic said. “We are happy about the result, but this is just the beginning and we have plenty of work to do and improve. The players need to play hard from the first until the last seconds of the match.”

“We didn;t show up for this game m” Hadera coach Asaf Nimni said. “In my worst dreams and I have had some pretty and ones, I never imagined that this would happen. We have a lot to think about and I feel badly for the fans that came out to super us today,”

Eran Zahavi also reflected on the game that was, “It’s just great and after such a long time I finally scored a league goal. We played really; y well and I have to give a good word to the fans who filled up the stadium. We did a great job and everyone did what they needed to and that is what is most important.”

Hapoel Beer Sheva walked all over Beitar Jerusalem 5-0 as Ramzi Safouri scored a second half brace in the dominating win. Newcomer Magomed Sulemanov opened the scoring with a free kick in the 20th minute as Beitar keeper Netanel Deloya knocked the ball into his own goal while Rotem Hatuel scored off a corner kick in the 60th minute to double the score. Safouri then got busy with a penalty goal off of a handball and then in the 79th minute added his second of the game for a commanding 4-0 lead. Sagiv Yehezkel finished off the blowout as he found the back of the goal as well to send the yellow-and-black to their second straight loss.

“We are still not ready for the league Beitar coach Yossi Abuksis said. “But it’s still not acceptable to score these types of goals. We are trying to build our team during the season and we are waiting for some new players to join the squad. It’s an unpleasant loss but better to lose 5-0 then 1-0 five times.”

“It was important for me to put the fact that we advanced to the Conference League group stages to the side,” Beer Sheva coach Elyaniv Barda said. “The league is our bread and butter and it was very important that began the season off well. We have another game on Wednesday and we don’t have time to celebrate.”

Maccabi Haifa snatched a 1-0 win over Bnei Sakhnin thanks to a 67th minute goal by defender Sean Goldberg as the Greens took the 3-points in a midweek clash.

Bnei Reineh and Hapoel Haifa drew 1-1 as both goals were scored in the second half. Hanan Maman opened the scoring with a penalty in the 62nd minute while a quarter hour later Richard Boateng found the back of the goal to split the points.

“I’m happy that we have 4 points after two games and if that isn’t enough then there must be high expectations which is good that the players see that,” Haifa coach Nir Klinger explained.

“This was a very important point for us,” Reineh coach Adham Hadiya said. “We have a good team and I believe in my players. I don’t take it for granted that after a 5-0 loss we would come back and fight the way we did against a good club.”