Maccabi opened the new season with a 2:1 win over Hapoel Ramat Gan. Bruninho scored a brace (22’, 46’) on his league debut.
Israeli Premier League - 1st fixture | Maccabi Haifa vs Hapoel Ramat Gan | Turner Stadium
Maccabi’s line-up: Omri Glazer, Jelle Bataille, Pedrão, Nigel Lonwijk, Wenderson Tsunami, Yarin Levi, Ethan Azoulay, Bruninho, Kenny Saief, Kenji Gorre (C), Silva Kani.
Kick Off
11’ Gorre shakes off his defender, enters into the box and crosses the ball towards Bataille, who shoots it, but the ball hits the post. The ball bounces straight back to Azoulay, who shoots it flat, but it only whistles past the post.
13’ Bataille crosses the ball into the box, Kani shoots with a single touch, but it goes over the crossbar.
18’ Yellow Card: Getachew Yabelo (Ramat Gan)
21’ Azoulay shoots from the edge of the box, but the ball goes narrowly wide.
22’ GOAL! A corner kick is cleared by the visitors’ defense straight to Bruninho, who shoots a curved ball from 18 meters straight into the net and scores an absolute screamer. 1:0 for Maccabi
23’ Bruninho receives a bouncing ball inside the box, shakes off his markers, and chips it over the keeper, but the ball goes just inches over the target.
32’ Gorre penetrates into the box and shoots from a hard angle, but the keeper blocks the attempt.
33’ Yellow Card: Jelle Bataille (Maccabi)
34’ Gorre crosses a great ball towards Bruninho, who shoots it, but the ball goes wide.
35’ Bruninho receives the ball at the edge of the box and shoots it, but the ball goes just inches away.
40’ Yellow Card: Pedro “Pedrão” Oliveira (Maccabi)
45’ Yellow Card: Dudu Twitto (Ramat Gan)
Second Half
46’ Substitution for Maccabi: Iyad Khalaili in, Jelle Bataille out.
46’ Substitution for Ramat Gan: Noam Schwartz in, Getachew Yabelo out.
46’ GOAL! Kani storms forward, shakes off his markers, and leaves the ball to Bruninho, who shoots a curved ball from the edge of the box straight into the far top corner. 2:0 for Maccabi
46’ Assist: Silva Kani
61’ GOAL! Maxim Plakushchenko scores from inside the box to narrow the score. 2:1 for Maccabi
62’ Substitution for Maccabi: Cedric Don in, Kenny Saief out.
63’ Substitution for Ramat Gan: Moshe Semel in, Idan Baranes out.
69’ Yellow Card: Srdjan Mijailovic (Ramat Gan)
69’ Double substitution for Maccabi: Ali Mohamed and Andrija Novakovich in, Kenji Gorre and Silva Kani out.
72’ Substitution for Ramat Gan: Marius Noubissi in, Srdjan Mijailovic out.
78’ Yellow Card: Nigel Lonwijk (Maccabi)
79’ Azoulay tries his luck with a sharp shot from 18 meters, but the goalkeeper blocks the attempt.
80’ Azoulay takes the corner kick and crosses the ball into the box, Tsunami heads it, but the goalkeeper collects it.
81’ Double substitution for Ramat Gan: Christopher Boniface and Amit Tzur in, Luan Campos and Maxim Plakushchenko out.
81’ Substitution for Maccabi: Noam Sztejfman in, Pedro “Pedrão” Oliveira out.
89’ Azoulay takes a penalty kick. Amit Reid, Ramat Gan’s goalkeeper, saves the shot. The rebound arrives to Azoulay, who tries again, but once again the keeper manages to block it.
90’+5’ Azoulay breaks forward and passes the ball to Khalaili, who shoots from inside the box, but he misses the target.
90’+8’ Bruninho takes another shot from outside the box, this time the ball only hits the crossbar.
90’+8’ Final whistle.
