{"id":28927,"date":"2021-02-02T01:48:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=28927"},"modified":"2021-02-02T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T14:27:21","slug":"maccabi-wins-again-haifa-gets-back-to-work-and-the-rest-of-the-latest-israel-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/maccabi-wins-again-haifa-gets-back-to-work-and-the-rest-of-the-latest-israel-football-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi wins again, Haifa gets back to work and the rest of the latest Israel Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Hapoel Beer Sheva 1-0<\/strong> down south at Toto Turner Stadium as Tal Ben Chaim scored the lone goal of the contest in the 39th minute to give the yellow-and-blue the 3-points. <\/p>\n

However, the victory was marred by an incident near the end of the match that saw Beer Sheva superstar Josue spit at Maccabi midfielder Avi Rikan out of frustration raising the ire of the visitors. \u201cHe needs to be penalized and he shouldn\u2019t even be acknowledged,\u201d goal scorer Tal Ben Chaim said. \u201cIt\u2019s the lowest thing that one can do. I hope that whoever needs to see what happened will and that they will take care of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Maccabi Tel Aviv coach Patrick Van Leeuwen and Beer Sheva interim boss Elyaniv Barda refused to discuss the matter following the clash.<\/p>\n

Van Leeuwen did speak about the club\u2019s victory, \u201cRight from the start we did everything as a team. We wanted to play well and all 11 players fought and battled as they wanted to do the best they could. <\/p>\n

Barda who took over the reins from Yossi Abuksis who left to take over the open coaching position at Bnei Yehuda over the weekend also reflected on the game, \u201cWe had a good first half and we pressed them high as we were able to get them out of their comfort zone but we ended up giving up a goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maccabi Haifa blanked Hapoel Kfar Saba 3-0<\/strong> as the Carmel Greens easily disposed of Elisha Levy\u2019s squad from the Sharon thanks to a brace by the league\u2019s leading goal scorer Nikita Rukavytsya. Dolev Haziz opened the scoring in the 35th minute when he swirled a placed a vicious strike by a helpless Itamar Israeli to give Barak Bachar\u2019s side a 1-0 lead. Haziza then played the part of facilitator for Rukavytsya\u2019s first goal in the 54th minute while Omer Atzili sent him on his way for this second ten minutes later to wrap up an easy victory at Sammy Ofer Stadium.<\/p>\n

Hapoel Tel Aviv and Kiryat Shemona drew 1-1<\/strong> as the northern squad scored a dramatic 95th minute goal to split the points at Bloomfield Stadium. After a goalless first half, Ofek Bitton gave the Reds the lead in the 61st minute when he beat \u2018keeper Dziugas Bartkus, but Abdallah Khlaikhal found the back of Ernestas Setkus\u2019s goal to take the surprise point just as the game was about to come to an end.<\/p>\n

Hapoel Hadera downed Bnei Sakhin 2-0<\/strong> to give new coach Menachem Koretzky a victory in his debut. Maxim Plakuschenko broke the deadlock in the 39th minute as he took a pass from Shoval Gozlan and put the ball behind Muhamed Kandil to take a 1-0 lead while the aforementioned Gozlan scored the insurance goal in the second half to take home the win.
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