Maccabi’s Youth team suffered a 3-0 defeat to Maccabi Haifa in the 4th league round.
Eliezer Ben Aharon’s side who won two matches so far, sufered their second defeat to drop to eighth in the table. The Haifaites took the lead in the opening minute through Ilai Hajaj before Bassem Za’arura beat Tomer Alon to double the visitors’ lead on 19. Four minutes from the end Nehorai Ifrach completed the score with a solo effort to make it 3-0 and maintain Haifa’s perfect record of 4 wins from 4 matches.
The youth team faces in the 5th round Hapoel Ra’anana who are ranked 13th with 1 win 2 draws and a defeat.
Maccabi Tel Aviv: Tomer Alon, Ilay Tomer (Itay Ben Hemo, 57), Hadar Mor Yossef, Mikel Mor (Yonatan Paz, 79), Nehorai Biton, Afek Sapir Navoi, Ori Halevi (Tali Lazar, 57), Niv Berkovich, Aviv Palas (Shachar Rozen, 46), Anar Oshmandi, Mohamad Abu Iash (Tal Torgeman, 46).
