Ashdod made it four wins from five in the Liga Leumit Regular Season, running riot against Hapoel Acre with a 4:0 victory at home on Monday evening. The result leaves the visitors fourth on 12 points while the hosts remain rooted to the bottom of the table with five defeats and not a single point to show for their efforts.
It was not a difficult afternoon for the away side, who took control almost immediately. The opening goal arrived in the 42nd minute when M. Amer finished calmly, and just two minutes later S. Fadida doubled the advantage. That 44th-minute strike felt like the turning point — by then the home side had already thrown bodies in the way but could not slow the momentum.
And here's the thing about matches like this: they are often decided in a handful of moments rather than over ninety minutes of grind. Hapoel Acre had not scored in four consecutive league games prior to this fixture, and the pattern held. Ashdod pressed high up the pitch, cut them open at will, and kept adding to the tally when H. Boahen made it three in the 50th minute.
The statistics tell the story without embellishment. Ashdod enjoyed 75 per cent possession and registered 15 shots on target, while Hapoel Acre managed only one shot on goal across the entire match. The visitors took nine corners to the hosts' zero, and the difference in attacks — 126 to 56 — barely does justice to how one-sided the contest was.
We had called for an away win before kick-off with 97 per cent confidence, and the performance justified that assessment. Ashdod had won four of their previous five league matches, including a 4:0 victory over Hapoel Kafr-Shalem just eight days earlier, and they carried that form straight into this fixture. The result extends their unbeaten run and widens the gap at the top.
Four goals from eight shots on target is efficiency, though the hosts did not test their goalkeeper enough to make it a true test. R. Gordana added a penalty in the 89th minute to complete the scoring, and the yellow cards — six for the home side against one for the visitors — suggested frustration had set in.
For Hapoel Acre, the situation grows more precarious with every defeat. They sit 16th with zero points from five games and have now lost five straight league matches, conceding 14 goals in that span. Ashdod, meanwhile, move closer to the promotion places with a comfortable margin over the teams below them.