The 21st round of the Youth Premier League continues at this time with the meeting between the leader of the table, Maccabi Haifa, who wants to maintain the 4-point gap at the top, and Hapoel RG, who needs every point in order to get out of last place and keep a chance of surviving in the league.
The group of Masai Dago comes to the competition in great shape. After defeating Hapoel Ra’anana 0:5 in the previous round, the greens from Carmel safely lead the table and maintain a safety margin of 4 points from the second, Maccabi Netanya, and want to increase their winning streak in the league which currently stands at three wins.
On the other hand, Hapoel Ramat Gan, which is in last place with only 15 points and lost 2:1 to Kiryat Shmona in the last round, will hope to make a sensation and take points from the greens of Carmel.
first half:
Fourth minute, first situation for Ramat Gan: a free ball from 20 meters was lifted towards Osher Tundovsky, who hit straight into the hands of Noam Shavit.
In the ninth minute, Maccabi Haifa entered the game: Ziv Bin Shimol received a ball in the box but missed from a wink when he kicked into the sky.
17th minute, Ramat Gan was close again: a nice breakthrough from the right wing and then a lift that went to Ezekiel who hit over the crossbar. Ramat Gan is more dangerous.
22nd minute, situation for Maccabi Haifa: Anan Halaili received a deep ball and was completely alone in the box, but he kicked weakly and goalkeeper Amit Raif cleared it.
36th minute, Maccabi Haifa went up 0:1: Getacho Yavli’s lift went into the box and from there Ziv Ben Shimol hit across the goal and the ball rolled to the feet of Hamza Shivli, who easily continued to the net.
second half
50th minute, a good situation for Maccabi Haifa: Yarin Levy received a ball from Feingold on the threshold of the 16th and kicked flat out.
59th minute, Maccabi Haifa went up to 0:2: The ball reached Alexander Kakhevich who dropped a ball with his heel to Halaili, the latter kicked from 16 meters straight into the net.
72nd minute, Maccabi Haifa went up to 0:3: Ido Almishili cut from the left wing to the middle, kicked outside the box to the right corner and easily subdued Amit Raif.
Maccabi Haifa lineup: Noam Shavit, Ilai Feingold, Lisab Issat, Yonatan Lish, Yanai Distelfeld, Yarin Levy, Getacho Yablo, Anan Halaili, Hamza Shibli, Ziv Ben Shimol and Alexander Kahevich.
Hapoel Ramat Gan: Amit Raif, Osher Tundovsky, Assaf Siman Tov, Ben Rabinovitch, Ben Yehezkel, Harel Levy, and Hib Fars, Kon Sindow, Shahar Yair, Shahar Binstock and Shaked Zindberg.