{"id":92418,"date":"2023-08-05T19:45:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T19:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=92418"},"modified":"2023-08-05T19:45:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T19:45:58","slug":"hapoel-jerusalem-downs-ashdod-a-pair-of-draws-in-toto-cup-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/hapoel-jerusalem-downs-ashdod-a-pair-of-draws-in-toto-cup-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapoel Jerusalem downs Ashdod + a pair of draws in Toto Cup play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Toto Cup action, <strong>Hapoel Jerusalem blanked Ashdod 2-0<\/strong> in the capital city as Ofek Bitton scored early on a nice team passing play while, Estonian forward Rauno Sappinen slotted home a second half penalty to take the points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not really looking at the result here as we are still getting ready for the season,\u201d Jerusalem coach Ziv Arie said. \u201cOur goal is to be ready for August 26th when the season starts. I am going to take away the players efforts, the work that they put in and the fact that they want to improve and continue to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t bad up until the last third of the pitch and we couldn\u2019t make the last pass,\u201d Ashdod coach Eli Levy said. \u201cWe know what we are missing but everyone here really worked hard and invested in themselves in this game. We just weren\u2019t sharp enough near the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At Bloomfield Stadium, <strong>Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Petach Tikva drew 1-1<\/strong> as Or Blorian off a corner kick gave the reds a 1-0 lead in the first half but Raz Stain found the equalizer late in the game to split the points. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw some good things in the first 60-70 minutes,\u201d Tel Aviv coach Michael Valkanis said. \u201cWe gave a lot of chances to the young guys and I think that if some of the veterans players weren\u2019t hurt things could have been different. The late equalizer will be a lesson for right team as we had to have the mentality to score a second goal and not go backwards, but it\u2019s still early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were some things that we are happy about from this game and some that we are not,\u201d Petach Tikva coach Ofer Tesselpepe said. \u201cWe can\u2019t concede goals the way we did and it\u2019s not up to this level of play and as a team. We had prepared for these types of things and it\u2019s too bad that we couldn\u2019t deal with the goal that we gave up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up north, <strong>Hapoel Haifa and Maccabi Bnei Reineh played to a 1-1 draw<\/strong> as Muhamed Kamara scored for the Carmel Reds while Henry Vaca found the back of the goal deep into second half injury time to snatch a point. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was cruel,\u201d Haifa coach Roni Levy began. \u201cBut it\u2019s still just the Top Cup and there have been a lot of acnes and our time working together has been critical. We have some very good players here that are very motivated and we saw some very good things in this game, but it\u2019s still disappointing to give up a goal like that which we will learn from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result isn\u2019t that important but this was our poorest game to date this young season,\u201d Reineh coach Sharon Mimer said. \u201cWe have time to fix things up before the season begins and we did a rotation of players which allowed many players to get minutes on the pitch. I\u2019m sure with time the team will be even better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Toto Cup action, Hapoel Jerusalem blanked Ashdod 2-0 in the capital city as Ofek Bitton scored early on a nice team passing play while, Estonian forward Rauno Sappinen slotted home a second half penalty to take the points. \u201cI\u2019m not really looking at the result here as we are still getting ready for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":92420,"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":[96,97,29],"class_list":["post-92418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-israel-2","tag-hapoel-jerusalem","tag-hapoel-tel-aviv","tag-israel","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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