In the Ligat Ha'al game on 19 September 2026, Bnei Sakhnin beat Hapoel Ramat Gan 1:0. Match numbers: shots on target 2:3, corners 4:5.
Match report
Bnei Sakhnin edged past Hapoel Ramat-Gan 1-0 in the Ligat ha'Al's fifth round on Saturday evening. The hosts held on grimly after Leeroy Owusu found the net in the sixty-seventh minute, taking them to four points in the table while the visitors remained on three.
The match settled into a pattern early. Bnei Sakhnin's Owusu worked the channels and came for a cross he never reached until the break, but the opening goal arrived after the interval. By then the visitors had already seen their goalkeeper called into action three times, and the hosts were playing the second half a man up in terms of intensity if not numbers.
Discipline frayed as the game wore on. Four yellow cards were shown — Marius Noubissi, Goni Naor, João Paulo Marques Gonçalves for the visitors, and Iyad Abu Abaid for the hosts — while nine substitutions were made in total. Hapoel Ramat-Gan brought on Antonio Sefer and Ahmed Ibrahim Salman in the seventy-ninth minute, but the score would not change.
And here's the thing about the statistics. The visitors dominated possession at 56 per cent and completed more passes, but Bnei Sakhnin created the bigger chances. They registered 0.64 expected goals against 0.28, and while Hapoel Ramat-Gan had three shots on target, they created nothing in the way of clear-cut opportunities.
The result tightens the bottom of the table. Bnei Sakhnin sit tenth with one win, one draw and three defeats, while Hapoel Ramat-Gan are eleventh with five defeats and no draws. The hosts ended a run of four games without victory, and the visitors have now lost four of their last five.
Prepared from match data
Key numbers
Possession, %44–56.00
Shots on target2–3
Shots off target5–2
Expected goals0.64–0.28
HT🟨27' Marius Noubissi — Yellow card⇄42' maroun gantus — Substitution⇄45' basil khuri — Substitution🟨52' Goni Naor — Yellow card🟨55' João Paulo Marques Gonçalves — Yellow card🟨57' Iyad Abu Abaid — Yellow card⇄66' Marius Noubissi — Substitution⚽67' Leeroy Owusu — Goal⇄72' Goni Naor — Substitution⇄79' Antonio Sefer — Substitution⇄79' Ahmed Ibrahim Salman — Substitution⇄84' Ido Oli — Substitution⇄84' Marcio Silva — Substitution⇄84' Moshe Semel — Substitution⇄90+2' Mathew Anim Cudjoe — Substitution
