Peter Agba

Defensive Midfielder - Maccabi Haifa
27 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Peter Agba

10 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Maccabi Haifa tear Hapoel Raanana apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Hapoel Raanana, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Both of them Guy Melamed's — 9.41

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.41, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Pierre Cornud runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Both of them Bruninho's — 8.17

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.17, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Peter Agba goes up and wins it — 7.91

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.91 for the rest of it.

Match

Maccabi Haifa make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Maccabi Haifa have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Jelle Bataille in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maccabi Haifa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Nevot Ratner

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Raanana in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

In brief

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The Maccabi Haifa Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Cédric Don

Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Itay Solomon damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Maccabi Haifa close the window on a squad of their own making

17 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Hamode Kanaan falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

A falling-out at Maccabi Haifa

Peter Agba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Haifa rebuffed over Paolo Rizzi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mattersburg have kept their man, and Maccabi Haifa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Omri Glazer

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Silva Kani ran the middle of the pitch — 6.67

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 6.67, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Match

Maccabi Haifa refuse to lose to Maccabi Netanya

A point taken on 88 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

In brief