Hapoel 0 - 4 Maccabi (381035487)

22764 punters turned up at Blom Field, and despite threatening clouds on the horizon, no rain came. Giuseppe Dutto was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Edward Śwircz and Drogomir Bratkowski. Hapoel tactics involved an interesting 2-5-3 combination. The following players had been chosen: Alfieri - Łupiński, Goda - Zsarnay, Aceña, Armanet, Savaş, Papež - Polak, Graps, Ivanišin.

Maccabi had chosen a strategic 3-5-2 formation. Starters: Stokas - Rükni, Zellner-Regula, Kremer - Vilella, Carli, Livnat, Vaquerizo, Cardei - Vitiello, Jonasson.

Maccabi seemed to prefer attacking in the middle. Maccabi were determined to attack in the middle, even their wing attacks ended up centrally. Maccabi took the lead 11 minutes into the game, making the score 0 - 1 after some elegant movement down the middle. L. Vaquerizo was the scorer. Hapoel tried to even things up by sending a long ball towards the centrally placed strikers, but the visitors' defence got the best of this rather direct style of play. With 27 minutes played, Š. Ivanišin of Hapoel fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. L. Vaquerizo received a delicate pass through the home side's central defence after 28 minutes, and chipped it past the flailing keeper to score making it 0 - 2. The Maccabi fans went wild, whilst the home fans started to think about leaving early. It was 0 - 2 at the break. Possession in this half belonged to Hapoel, who controlled the ball 51 percent of the time.

After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, I. Zsarnay got himself booked. The manager of Hapoel was not happy. H. Graps charged down the left and looked sure to score for Hapoel 57 minutes into the game, but his shot went just wide. The visitors' N. Jonasson took advantage of a misunderstanding between the home side's goalie and centre backs 61 minutes into the match. 0 - 3 for Maccabi. After this, you could see that the players of Maccabi were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. After 67 minutes, Maccabi's C. Vitiello burst through the central defence and let loose a cannonball of a shot, scoring for 0 - 4. Hapoel claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 52 percent.

Hapoel's top performer was clearly Š. Ivanišin. M. Goda on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important Maccabi player was A. Cardei. However, A. Carli made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 4.