Hapoel Beer Sheva fell to Royale Union Saint-Gilloise 4-0 in UEFA Europa League play as they saw their record drop to two losses and a draw after the opening three matches of the competition. The southern reds played their rivals toe-to-toe for the opening half but just ahead of the break Itay Rotman tripped up Rail Florucz in the box which handed the latter a penalty that was promptly slotted home for a 1-0 lead at halftime. <\/p>\n
The Belgians doubled the advantage when Guilherme Smith\u2019s shot went off of Rotman and beat keeper Ofir Marciano lead in the 60th minute while Dylan Aquino added the third marker of the game just under twenty minutes later for a 3-0 lead. Smith bumped up the lead to 4-0 via Smith to close out the match. <\/p>\n
Beer Sheva Head Coach Ran Kozuk summarized the loss, \u201cA very disappointing result. We played good football in the first half and were even the better team on the pitch, but at this level, you can\u2019t create chances and go into halftime trailing. In the second half, we ran out of steam, couldn\u2019t keep possession and got dragged into the tempo the Belgians dictated. The players who came off the bench didn\u2019t give us the boost we needed, even though they should have. I think we fell short physically in a big way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keeper Ofir Marciano looked back at the loss, \u201cThe result is definitely not what we wanted and it\u2019s a bad result for us. We did a lot of good things in the first half. This is a journey we\u2019re going through this season against some very challenging teams and we\u2019ll need to find solutions and do better than we did against AZ Alkmaar. We\u2019ll have to learn from this. The second half shouldn\u2019t have looked like that. We weren\u2019t good enough in the areas close to our goal, where we needed to be more aggressive. That\u2019s something we have to fix.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hapoel Beer Sheva fell to Royale Union Saint-Gilloise 4-0 in UEFA Europa League play as they saw their record drop to two losses and a draw after the opening three matches of the competition. The southern reds played their rivals toe-to-toe for the opening half but just ahead of the break Itay Rotman tripped up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":194585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-194583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-israel-2","tag-hapoel-beer-sheva","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n