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When visiting away fans are not permitted to attend a sporting event, especially one that is hotly contested, you know that unfortunately sports and perhaps society may be heading in the wrong direction. Instead of having two fan bases enjoying game action and also playing off one another, an event and a leisure activity that allows the spectator to forget the troubles and worries that may envelop the person has headed down the wrong path.<\/p>\n

Beitar Jerusalem will welcome (maybe host would be a better word?) Bnei Sakhnin to a Matchday 14 date to open up the second round of Israel soccer league matches for the 2025\/26 season on Monday night (20:30) and the away fans won\u2019t be allowed in to Teddy Stadium. In the opening round of matches the same was true for Beitar supporters as they were not permitted to attend their club\u2019s match up in the Galilee and also didn\u2019t have the opportunity to celebrate with their heroes in what was a stellar 2-1 win for the yellow-and-black. <\/p>\n

With no Beitar fans in the stands at Doha stadium, the players needed to celebrate the rare away victory in Sakhnin without the faithful, which was extremely unfortunate. This will once again repeat itself in the capital city as Sakhnin fans will be nowhere to be found at Teddy Stadium on this night, which once again just sends the wrong message to the sports industry here in Israel.<\/p>\n

The decision that the league and various authorities made is yet another way that sports are being taken away from the fans and the team\u2019s supporters. In recent weeks, we have seen both fans and the authorities taking one extreme step after the next in order to try to one up the other and the results have been disappointing to say the least.
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Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nUltimately, what needs to happen is that the clubs, fans and authorities need to all get into a room and hash out their differences or else sports in the Holy Land will keep heading down the tubes and hit a point of no return. Cooler heads need to prevail or else everyone will be on the losing side. <\/p>\n

Sports are supposed to be an entertainment outlet and not one that sees hate, dismay and violence. Soccer and basketball should be fun and exciting for the fans to be a part of and not something that perhaps is life or death especially after what this country has been through over the course of its history and most recently since October 7, 2023. <\/p>\n

Enough of the rhetoric that will keep the sides at each others throats instead of working to bring the love and joy of what sports can be to the masses. <\/p>\n

Turning to Monday\u2019s Beitar game, Head Coach Barak Itzhaki spoke about not having away fans in attendance and its effect, \u201cIt will be difficult. It\u2019s true they\u2019ll be without fans, but we also played away without fans. The first-round match was tight. In games like these you sometimes struggle and need to know how to win. We were in Sakhnin without fans, and they\u2019re coming to Teddy without fans as well. In my opinion, the influence of Beitar fans at an away match is greater than the influence of Sakhnin fans certainly at Teddy when it\u2019s full so if anything, this goes against us.\u201d
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\nPortuguese keeper Miguel Silva shared his thoughts on the matter, \u201cI think it\u2019s good [that there will be no away fans]. I saw what it\u2019s like when Teddy is full, it\u2019s nice to feel the support but we need to put on a show for our fans and win.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for winning, Beitar has a rough game ahead and will want to collect 3-points after drawing in last week\u2019s Derby in front of a sold out Teddy Stadium, \u201cOf course we want to get back to winning ways. We\u2019re going into a tough game, there are no easy games in the league. We\u2019re coming into an important match for us after the previous draw. We struggled with the result; I watched the game several times. We had absolute control. There were moments when they managed to reach our goal through good transition attacks, but we created enough chances to win and controlled the game in an exceptional way. Still, not always when you control the game and create more chances do you win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Silva shared his thoughts on the previous game\u2019s result, \u201cA derby is a different game. Hapoel Jerusalem weren\u2019t good in the league, but a derby is a match with a different feeling, and they came to compete and to win. It was difficult, we weren\u2019t at our best, but that belongs in the past. We have a game we need to win and continue on our path.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously a win will keep Beitar in striking distance of Beer Sheva who recorded yet another win to open up the second round and collected 3-points to put them 8-points ahead of Beitar who can cut that to 5 with a win over Sakhnin.
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Barak Itzhaki – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nIn order for Barak Itzhaki\u2019s side to compete for the title they will need to find a way to take the victory but will also have to out in a good second round of matches as well, \u201cI believe that our expectations is do do better than we did and we have the conditions to do it,\u201d Silva said. \u201cThe second round should be better than the first. I think we showed many good things this season and we gave a great squad. If we come with the right mentality to every game and work hard every week and if we do the right things, it\u2019s possible. We\u2019re close and we can achieve something good this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Itzhaki himself wants to take the high road and the modest one, not wanting to be too loud about where he wants to see this season go, \u201cI don\u2019t think thinking creates reality and sometimes it\u2019s the opposite. This isn\u2019t the time for that. When we need to and when we\u2019re there in the decisive moments, you\u2019ll see it for yourselves. Right now we\u2019re doing our job, we want to stay as close as possible to the top of the table. At the moment we\u2019re there, and we need not to deal in slogans. This question comes up at every press conference, but this is the way I choose to deal with it because in my opinion it\u2019s the right way and that\u2019s how I\u2019ll continue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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