The Maccabi Haifa Herald
Match3 Oct 2026
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 ratings5 Oct 2026
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 ratings5 Oct 2026
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 ratings5 Oct 2026
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 ratings5 Oct 2026
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
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
- Squad A row about effort at Maccabi Haifa
- The terraces Maccabi Haifa supporters have found a favourite in Peter Agba
- Squad Zohar Zasano has improved at 24, which nobody expected