Maccabi Kfar-Ata Byalik beat Hapoel Ihud Bnei Yehud 5-3 in the Liga Alef North division on Thursday. The match finished 2026-09-24 at 11:45, with the hosts taking all three points in front of their own supporters. By then the table position was clear enough — third place, 38 points from 22 games.
And here's the thing about the opening twenty minutes. Siman Tov opened the scoring at seven, then a second goal followed at seventeen without a name attached to it. Ben Simon added the third at twenty-nine, which is roughly where you'd be watching if you weren't looking at the camera. Three goals in the first half already.
Mukra came off the bench and immediately changed the shape of things. He scored at forty-two, then again at fifty-six. That's two goals inside twenty minutes, and suddenly the visitors were chasing a game they thought they had control of. To be fair, Hapoel had more possession — fifty-three per cent — but possession doesn't always translate into clarity.
Mahanja then stepped in. He netted at fifty-seven and again at sixty-eight, bringing his tally to two. Shaban pulled one back for the visitors at sixty-one, and the match turned into something far less tidy than anyone expected. The ninth goal arrived at ninety-plus-one, unnamed once more, which is how these games sometimes finish — with noise rather than narrative.
Statistics tell a different story from the scoreboard. Maccabi Kfar-Ata Byalik registered thirteen shots on target to Hapoel's seven, yet the visitors generated slightly more attacks overall — seventy-six to seventy-four. The difference was in precision. Three yellow cards for the home side against one for the visitors suggests a match that grew increasingly physical.
The result keeps Maccabi Kfar-Ata Byalik in third place, eight points behind the leaders. They've extended their unbeaten run to eight games across all competitions, with four clean sheets in that period. Hapoel Ihud Bnei Yehud, meanwhile, sit further down the table and will need to find consistency — they lost 2-0 away to Beitar Netarria just fourteen days ago.