hapoel 1 - 4 Eintracht (392743454)

A brilliantly sunny day had enticed a crowd of 815 to KLEIN west Arena. Roberto Loera was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Jean-Luc Plantier-Royon and Immanuel van Dieren. A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for hapoel. The following players took the field: Sándor - Eitan, Malul, Zchut - Budara, Albers, Klüten, Srour, Vermus - Zaides, Antebi.

Eintracht decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. They fielded: Blaser - Keferstein, Böspflug, Goeppert Mayer, Sonnevend - Speckin, Pfeifer, Ottino-Geck, Lisker - Bünsdorf, Guillaume.

The guests took the lead 10 minutes into the match, after a right-side attack resulted in M. Bünsdorf scoring to make it 0 - 1. 20 minutes in, Eintracht appeared unsure on how to play and their organisation was only inadequate. 23 minutes into the match, the speedy T. Lisker easily outpaced G. Eitan, chipped the keeper and made the score 0 - 2. hapoel refused to be intimidated and, breaking through the middle, N. Zaides managed to slip the ball home for 1 - 2. After the ball was lifted in from the left, A. Speckin was on his own in the home side's penalty area and should have scored after 31 minutes, but missed, probably due to lack of concentration. hapoel's defence sent a ball soaring up the middle on a beautiful counterattack with 32 minutes gone, but L. Zchut's finish was met by the reaching hands of the keeper. Some fine movement on the left led to a Eintracht goal after 39 minutes, making it 1 - 3. W. Pfeifer was noted down as the scorer. A. Klüten tried to get a goal back for hapoel but despite all his hard work down the right, he just couldn't complete the move. 44 minutes into the game, Eintracht seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a poor level of organisation. It was 1 - 3 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by hapoel, with 60 percent of the ball.

The coach gave his players an extra tactical briefing during the break, and after that Eintracht had passable organisation. T. Lisker wasn't much help defensively. His energy-consuming forward runs proved quite costly in the oppressive heat. The counterattacks of Eintracht were deadly and 89 minutes into the game, R. Ottino-Geck received a nice pass from the right flank, making it 1 - 4. After this, you could see that the players of Eintracht were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. After 89 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as Eintracht found themselves out of position and their organisation level dropped to passable. hapoel enjoyed most of the ball, as they maintained 60 percent of possession.

The most dominating hapoel player was without a doubt N. Zaides. On the other hand, O. Antebi's play was disheartening. Most important Eintracht player was P. Böspflug. L. Goeppert Mayer turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 1 - 4.