After the huge victory over Finland, the Israeli under-19 national team today (Saturday) recorded another victory against the Faroe Islands in a match that ended 0:2 in favor of Ofir Haim’s team, which is making its way to the Euros with six points out of a possible six.
In the game itself, the Israelis started the match lazily and the Peruvian team took advantage of this in order to attack a lot until the 30th minute but did not find the goal. From that point the blue and whites woke up and completely took over the game. In the 43rd minute, the team’s right defender in white received a second yellow and was sent off, which helped Ofir Haim’s players continue to press the goal.
The pressure continued to increase in the second half and a great collaboration between Ariel Logsi who scored a goal for Elie Feingold gave Israel the first advantage of the game after exactly an hour of football. Ofir Haim’s team was very close until the end of the game to score another goal in almost every attack and indeed in the 93rd minute of the game Ran Binyamin received a great ball in an explosive attack, scored and calmed the spirits of the Israeli team who beat the Faroe Islands 0:2 and took three more points on the way to the Euro the youth
Although they were worth more than two goals in today’s victory, the boys in blue and white came away satisfied with a second victory in a row and will meet Croatia next Tuesday, for the third game in the youth Euro qualifying tournament.
first half
1 minute: The referee blew his whistle to start the game.
4th minute: First chance of the game for the hosts. A free kick by the Faroe Islands national team arrived in the box, a player of the home team kicked from a difficult situation but Ofek Malika was there to stop the kick.
6th minute: The hosts press the team in blue and white. An explosive attack ended with a kick close to the goal, which ended with a save from the line by Ilai Tomer.
9th minute: Israel’s first dangerous attack. Roy Navi took advantage of an opening in the Faroe Islands defense to shoot powerfully from outside the box but the home keeper blocked his shot.
19th minute: Ariel Logsi with his first attempt kicked just over the crossbar of the Faroe Islands goalkeeper.
24th minute: Thai Abed sent a dangerous free kick across the goal of the Faroe Islands, the goalkeeper stood well and deflected the kick.
28th minute: The Faroe Islands attack player Samuelson caught a ball and went out on his own, Ofir Haim’s players lined up in defense and the powerful kick went outside the Israeli goal.
36th minute: Abed again threatened the goal of the Faroe Islands. After taking control of a corner ball that was not intended for him, the attacking midfielder kicked well to the connections but the Faroe Islands goalkeeper Corsa, stood well and deflected the ball and immediately after that a foul was whistled for Israel.
44th minute: Faroe Islands right back Elias Isaksen saw the second yellow and left his team with ten players on the verge of the whistle at the end of the first half.
46th minute: Anan Halaili passed Magnussen and passed a cross which unfortunately did not find a finishing foot.
second half:
51st minute: First dangerous attack for Israel in the second half. Ariel Logsi received a wonderful ball from Tai Abed and was left alone in front of Krosa, but kicked far over the goal.
58th minute: A dangerous Faroe Islands free kick almost found its way into Ofek Malika’s goal but went just wide of the bar.
60th minute, a goal! Israel went up to 0:1: A great collaboration between Ariel Logsi and Ilai Feingold on the left side of the field yielded the first goal of the Israeli national team after an hour of soccer.
65th minute: Ariel Logsi got into a great situation in front of the goalie, his kick was weak and Crosa collected the ball to him without getting into trouble.
70th minute: Halaili found himself again in the box very close to the goal but kicked the Faroe Islands defender and the ball went out.
78th minute: The Israelis celebrated in the Faroe Islands square but struggled to find the net again. This time it was Logsi who found himself alone in front of the goalkeeper in the box but kicked into the outer net.
80th minute: Halaili took control of a rebound outside the Faroe Islands box and kicked, Korsa stood well and collected the ball.
88th minute: An explosive attack by Israel almost ended in another goal, but the Faroe Islands defense managed to block Logsi’s kick for a corner kick.
93rd minute, a goal! Israel went up to 0:2: Ran Binyamin received a great ball in an explosive attack and scored the second goal for the Israeli team, who earned it honestly.
Israel national team composition: Ofek Malika, Ilai Tomer (Noam Ben Harosh, ’45), Adir Cordova, Shavit Elgabi, Ilai Feingold, Roy Navi (Dagtas Varco, ’59), Ran Binyamin, Anan Halaili, Tai Abed (Sagi Ganis, ’71), Ariel Logsi (Yonathan Lish, ’90) and Yaad Ramot (Elad Madmon, ’59).