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Maccabi Haifa defeated Beitar Jerusalem 2-1<\/strong> in a highly charged affair at Sammy Ofer Stadium. Former Green midfielder Yarden Shua slotted home a penalty in the 11th minute to give the visitors a surprise 1-0 lead but Frantzdy Pierrot drew the hosts even at 1-1 just ahead of halftime. <\/p>\n

However, just before the break Grigori Morozov was handed his second yellow card for some extra-curricular activity with Dolev Haziza ro leave the capital city squad with only ten men for the entire second half. With Barak Bachar\u2019s charges pushing for a go ahead goal they got just that when Tjaron Chery took a Muhamed Jaber ball and put it behind keeper Miguel Silva as Haifa took the points. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you lose, you\u2019re going through a tough time and when you win everything is fine,\u201d Haifa coach Barak Bachar began. \u201cEverything needs to be in proportion. Even when we lost to Ashdod last week we knew that we are a good team and that we would be able to overcome the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing that things can change up in an instant at the end of the first half, \u201c Beitar head coach Yossi Abuksis said. \u201cI am disappointed because in the first half we were worth more than a goal and we needed to score another one when you have such chances against a team like Maccabi Haifa.\u201d <\/p>\n

Hapoel Beer Sheva downed Bnei Reineh 2-0<\/strong> on a brace by Adrian Paun as the Romanian striker scored a goal in each half to take the points and stay in second pace, 4 points off the top of the table.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could have scored even more, we moved the ball back and forth and once we scored it was like we broke the ice,\u201d Beer Sheva coach Elyaniv Barda said. \u201cI\u2019m happy with our desire to win the game as every game is important especially our home games. Our next game will be the most important game as we want to make sure we play out best and finish well ahead of the championship playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not looking at the fact that we haven\u2019t won in 15 games but I am looking at the situation on the table,\u201d Bnei Reineh coach Sharon Mimer said. We have 9 games that are like finals coming up and I am sure that the guys will do the job. We gave up a goal in they first half and we tried to tie the game up in the second but we gave up another goal on a counter attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maccabi Tel Aviv blanked Sektzia Nes Ziona 2-0<\/strong>on a Djorde Jovanovic first half brace to take the win and the 3-points for Aitor Karanka\u2019s squad. Dor Peretz sent a magnificent through ball to the striker as Jovanovic finally scored after six league games without finding the back of the goal in the 31st minutes. Ten minutes later Jovanovic struck again this time with a header off of an Enric Saborit cross to sew up the game ahead of halftime.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not happy with the quality of our play, \u201cAitor Karanka said following the game. \u201cWe didn\u2019t play that well and while it\u2019s important that we won\u2019t the game and took the 3 very critical points, we still have plenty of work to improve our play. Sometimes when you win you can think that everything\u2019s fine but we all know that we have much to improve upon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to look at the good points from the game which was our desire, drive and motivation,\u201d Shlomi Dura commented. \u201cWe conceded during some of our good minutes because we were not in the right places and then we gave up another goal. Maccabi Tel Aviv will punish you if given the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ashdod came back from a goal down to down Hapoel Tel Aviv 2-1<\/strong> as Mugees Zakaria scored a pair of goals for the port city side. Dan Einbinder gave the reds a 1-0 lead via a 24th minute header but after that it was all Ran Ben Shimon\u2019s squad. Just after halftime, Zakaria took a through ball and put it past a helpless Hapoel keeper Emilijus Zubas and then scored his second on a superb individual effort in the 85th minute to complete the brace and comeback. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo come into this game after a high like we had last week against Maccabi Haifa and then gave up a goal was tough,\u201d Ashdod bench boss Ran Ben Shimon began. \u201cBut to stay with it and not give up both physically and mentally and to score the winner at such a critical moment as we battle for a place in the championship playoffs gives me such pride.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave up some goals that we haven\u2019t conceded recently,\u201d Reds coach Haim Silva\u2019s said. \u201cOur second half was not good and our bench didn\u2019t help either. If we would have been in this game for at least the first half we would have won. Unfortunately this is the game of soccer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hapoel Jerusalem and Hapoel Haifa played to an entertaining 2-2 draw<\/strong> as the Carmel Reds found the equalizer late in the game to split the points. Ofek Bitton opened the scoring for the capital city squad in the 22nd minute as he finished off a team play in the box as the gists dominated play early. <\/p>\n

In order to counteract the lopsided display, Haifa bench boss Roni Levy made a trio of substitutes minutes later which paid off in the 38th minute when Aleksandar Scekic knotted the game up at 1-1 ahead of the break. Guy Badash slotted home a penalty in the 64th minute but Mohammed Kamara found the back of the goal from inside the area 25 minutes later to earn a point for their efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started the game well and we should have won and scored another goal,\u201d Hapoel Jerusalem head coach Ziv Arie. \u201cBut we have to keep going forward. We\u2019ve played well but the games have been tough in this round of games. We want to get into the championship playoffs and hopefully we will be able to do that next week against Maccabi Tel Aviv.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe began the game very poorly both on an individual level and as a team but we were able to take a point at the end of the day which is good,\u201d Haifa bench boss Roni Levy squd. \u201cAs for the three early substitutes, I felt that this was the right thing to do at the time, to bring on some quicker players in order to help the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiryat Shemona opened up strong with three goals including a Itamar Shviro brace by the 24th minute to down Bnei Sakhnin 3-1<\/strong>. Shviro nodded in a pair of goals by the 19th minute while Roi Kehat scored five minutes later to take a quick 3-0 lead. Dor Hugi pulled a goal back right before the break but ten minutes into the second half, Ihab Genaim was sent off with his second yellow card as Slobodan Drapic\u2019s team took the victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe began the game well and to go up 3-0 so quickly isn\u2019t easy,\u201d Kiryat Shemona coach Slobodan Drapic said. \u201c4-5 players that didn\u2019t play last week did so this game and there are so many other players that I need to become familiar with as there are many new players from when I was here last season\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe game was pretty much done after 30 minutes of play and then we scored a goal to cut the lead to 3-1 so we thought that maybe we could comeback,\u201d Kobi Refuah began. \u201cBut the moment we got a red card it was basically impossible. We weren\u2019t good enough in this game as Kiryat Shemona we\u2019re better than us and won this battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maccabi Netanya slipped by Hapoel Hadera 1-0<\/strong> thanks to Patrick Twumasi\u2019s penalty goal in the 54th minute of the match following a handball that had been called in the box. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew that this game wasn\u2019t going to be easy,\u201d Netanya\u2019s Ran Kozuk said. \u201cBut we keep that out fast paced attack would give us an advantage at the end and that is what occurred. From the get to there was one team that was more intense than the other and that\u2019s what we wanted to do.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThis was our worse game since I returned to coach the team,\u201d Menachem Koretzky began. \u201cWe started the game off poorly and we couldn\u2019t string together two passes. We couldn\u2019t control the ball and find open space to operate and it\u2019s not like Netanya had many chances we were just not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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