Maccabi Kabriot Yaffo secured a 2:1 victory over Maccabi Achi Nazareth in the Liga Leumit's third round on 30 August 2026. The hosts took the lead through M. Sabah in the seventeenth minute, only for S. Elbaz to equalise two minutes later. A. Stephens restored Kabriot's advantage just before half-time, and despite playing most of the second half with ten men after Elbaz's dismissal, they held on for the win.
Sabah opened the scoring at the 17th minute, and Elbaz responded almost immediately in the nineteenth. By then the match already had its rhythm, and neither side could find a way through the other's defence. Stephens' goal on 45+1 gave Kabriot the edge going into the break, and the visitors struggled to find their feet after the restart.
Elbaz's red card in the seventy-fifth minute changed everything. To be fair, the visitors had created enough chances to take the game away, but the dismissal tightened things up for Kabriot. The hosts came for crosses they never reached, and Achi Nazareth's attacks lost their purpose without their creative spark.
Kabriot dominated possession at 58 per cent and registered 111 attacks compared to the visitors' 93. They had nine shots on target and nine off target, while Achi Nazareth managed eight of each. The hosts won the aerial battle from set plays, but the statistics tell only part of the story.
The result leaves Maccabi Kabriot in fifteenth place with zero points from three games. Achi Nazareth move up to twelfth with three points, though they remain winless in their last outing before this match. And here's the thing — the hosts have lost all three matches so far, but this was their first point of the season in terms of not losing.