Maccabi “Shachar” Tel Aviv 1:1 Maccabi Haifa
The Under-19 club returned from the break with a matchup against the Carmel Greens. The young Yellow & Blue played a good first half and had many chances to score, but only went into halftime with a 1:0 lead thanks to Prince Thomas. The second half saw Haifa find the equalizer via a penalty. Guy Tzarfati’s team is in first place thanks to a better goal differential over Raanana. For the full Match Report Click Here.

Maccabi “Oded” Tel Aviv 2:1 Bnei Sakhnin
The Under-17 side remained undefeated with a home win over Bnei Sakhnin. The Yellow & Blue scored a goal in each half while the visitors cut the lead with 20 minutes left in the contest despite a red card to Rave Assayag. The victory increased the U17’s lead a top the table to 17 points thanks to goal scorers Rave Assayag and Omri Ram. Head Coach Eliezer Ben Anton summed up the win: “We pretty much controlled the pace of play over the whole match. Over the last few minutes we were lucky not to give up a tying goal. Sakhnin played with ten men on the 16 meter line which makes it very difficult to play a fast paced game. I think in these types of cases, patience is very important and today we weren’t patient enough. I’m happy with the win and that we increased our lead at the top of the table, but it’s hard to keep the intensity of the players at the highest levels when there is such a big gap and this is where we get into the mental side of the game. We have to create more goals for the season such as remaining undefeated until the end of the campaign and to continue to increase our first place lead. These are goals that we want to achieve over the matches we have until the end of the season. I want to also wish good luck to the U17 National Team that will be playing in the Elite stage especially to our players that will be heading out for the competition over the next 10 days. We return to action on April 4th with a big game against Maccabi Haifa with the mission to record another win.”

Hapoel Rishon Le’Zion 1:4 Maccabi “Eli Fuchs” Tel Aviv
After last Matchday’s big win where the side scored 11 goals, the Under-16 team continued with their fine play. The young Yellow & Blue took care of Rishon away which helped them move into 4th place, just 6 points off the top of the table. Tal Turgeman, Nehorai Bitton x2 and Yonatan Imberg all scored. Head Coach Raymond Atteveld looked back at the win: “We played a good match and we led by two goals but instead of pressing on the gas and getting a third to finish the game off, we gave up a goal which allowed Rishon to feel that they could get back into the contest. We made a number of substitutions and that helped get us back into the game. We controlled the pace of play for the most part, but we didn’t convert enough of our chances. Despite that, we are the team that leads the league in scoring and I hope we can continue that way, take advantage of more of our opportunities and not put it into our heads that we are scoring a lot of goals. We have to be serious and score when we have the chance to. One thing that we learned last week was how to really continuously pressure our opponent on the pitch. This was a good result against one of our rivals, I’m happy about that.”

Maccabi “Eldad” Tel Aviv 7:0 Ironi Kiryat Gat
After their important win over Maccabi Haifa last week in State Cup action, the Under-15 South team again put up a quality performance on Matchday 22 against Ironi Kiryat Gat. The young Yellow & Blue are in 2nd place just one point off the top of the table. Goal scorers included Ener Oshmandi and Liel Shota with braces, Elad Kaplan, Ohad Mizrachi and Rotem Grama. Head Coach Ori David discussed the win: “We played versus a side that wanted to defend but an easy goal opened up the game and turned the contest into an easy victory. The players did their jobs and I’m proud of that.”

Maccabi “Max” Haifa 4:0 Maccabi “Ilan” Tel Aviv
After moving onto the semifinal round of the State Cup, the Under-15 North squad we’re stopped cold by the Carmel Greens. The young Yellow & Blue are in 3rd place, 8 points out of first place. Head Coach Asaf Heber summed up the defeat: “This wasn’t one of our better matches. We were still in the game after the first half but we didn’t show up in the second half. We allowed Haifa to control the play, we didn’t press in the midfield, we were naive in our defensive game and we gave out gifts to our opponent. This was not a good day to say the least and we have to forget about the game and continue ahead to our next home match.”