In front of only 1,390 spectators, tonight (Saturday) Hapoel Jerusalem and Hapoel Hadera finished with a 1:1 draw.
The host's new foreigner, Jordan Butaka, scored on his debut to give his team the lead in the 23rd minute.
Nadav Nidam, who also recently arrived on loan from Maccabi Tel Aviv, scored an own goal (52) that determined the outcome of the game.
The coach of Hapoel Jerusalem, Ziv Aryeh, said at the end: "We are disappointed, we should have taken advantage of the first half. We take the good things and move on. Our goal this season is to advance our children, and not be where we were last season. The crowd came even though we are not Teddy and we We will try to take advantage for them next week."
Jerusalem fans, photo: Danny Maron
Just distribution of points, photo: Danny Maron
On the acquired player Botaka, who scored a debut goal despite only joining the team this week: "I'm happy for him that he started like that, he still has a long way to go, he's not in shape yet, but he'll be fine."
Assaf Nemani, coach of Hapoel Hadera: "We were all the way with our feet on the ground. We are in the stages where we are searching for our identity. The result is very reflective. It wasn't us, we didn't make it to the first half, but that changed in the second. We are concentrating on progressing from game to game, we will learn The mistakes ahead of Maccabi Tel Aviv next week."
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