Kafar Qasim Beat Hapoel Acre 4:0 in Liga Leumit
Kafar Qasim saw off Hapoel Acre 4:0 in the second round of the Liga Leumit regular season on Sunday. The hosts finished with a clean sheet and three goals from different players, while C. Igwe added a second to complete his brace. It was a straightforward afternoon for the home side, who dominated possession and created more chances throughout.
The opening goal came in the forty-seventh minute when C. Igwe found the net. The home side had spent the first half probing and finally broke through. To be fair, Hapoel Acre had not looked threatening at all up until that point, and their defence simply could not hold shape under sustained pressure.
By then the visitors were already on the back foot. N. Abdir doubled the lead in the sixty-second minute, and the game was effectively over. I. Tzairi made it three in the seventieth, and the pattern was clear — the home attack had found its rhythm while the away side had nothing left to offer.
C. Igwe completed his double in the seventy-eighth minute, and the result felt inevitable by that stage. Four goals, four different attacking moves, and not a single reply from Hapoel Acre. The hosts had been second to everything in the opening exchanges, but once they took the lead they never looked back.
The statistics told the story in simple terms. Kafar Qasim had 56 per cent possession and 62 attacks compared to 44 for the visitors. They registered ten shots on target and nine off target, while Hapoel Acre could only manage two shots on target from nine attempts off target. The away side also had fewer corners — two to four — and one yellow card to the hosts' two.
The result leaves Hapoel Acre bottom of the table with zero points from three matches. Kafar Qasim sit tenth with three points after one win and two defeats. Cup football has its own rules, but this was league football, and the hosts showed why they fancied their chances at home.