arsenal56l 0 - 7 YOHED (381111765)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 10062 to arsenal56l Arena. Sebastián Medolla was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Rudolfs Franks and Martin Kiss. Fans of both teams had been eagerly awaiting this Arava derby and were doing their best to outshout their opponents. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for arsenal56l. Starters: Tzokol - Goldberger, Barzilay, Sin, Pollak - Abularach, Daniel, Margalit, Yacobson - Goel, Goldwasser.

YOHED decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. They fielded: Nissan - Katz, Markovich, Zigdon, Nizan - Avraham, Elkin, Kapeta, Gafni - Cohen, Yaish.

After 12 minutes, YOHED's A. Kapeta made his way through the middle and nonchalantly placed the ball out of the keeper's reach, putting the visitors up 0 - 1. After 26 minutes, a mistake by the home side's left defence allowed I. Yaish to get through. He outclassed the home side's keeper, adding another goal for the visitors. 0 - 2. L. Markovich of YOHED took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 27 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 3. Confident in their lead, YOHED's players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. The referee signalled a penalty 38 minutes into the game following an offence which looked like it was outside the box. M. Katz knocked it home to make the score 0 - 4. The teams went for the halftime break at 0 - 4. YOHED enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 78 percent of possession.

YOHED's A. Kapeta was shown a yellow card after 47 minutes for slicing down an opponent. A. Goldberger's knee will be throbbing for days, but thankfully for arsenal56l, he bravely continued in the match. A. Tzokol got a fingertip on M. Katz's shot from the left 61 minutes in, and managed to keep the visitors from going up another goal. Some fine movement on the left led to a YOHED goal after 72 minutes, making it 0 - 5. C. Cohen was noted down as the scorer. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave R. Gafni from YOHED a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 73 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! YOHED increased their lead after 75 minutes when R. Avraham broke through on the right, upping the score to 0 - 6, much to the home crowd's dismay. The home crowd cheered when, after 80 minutes, I. Yaish's charge up the middle resulted in the keeper making one of his best saves of the day. A drive down the left side allowed I. Yaish to get in close and score another goal for YOHED after 80 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 7. YOHED claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 81 percent.

arsenal56l's best player was Y. Goldwasser. A. Tzokol on the other hand, had a terrible day. The most dominating YOHED player was without a doubt C. Cohen. L. Markovich turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 0 - 7.