The Hapoel Acre Gazette
Squad4 Nov 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Osama Khalaila
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hapoel Acre lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings4 Nov 2030
Ange Messi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces4 Nov 2030
Anger at Hapoel Acre spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match2 Nov 2030
No end in sight to Hapoel Acre's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hapoel Acre has to find a result from somewhere.
Match2 Nov 2030
3 matches without a goal for Hapoel Acre
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad4 Nov 2030
Tempers go at Hapoel Acre
Shalev Ovnish was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match2 Nov 2030
Hapoel Acre come up short against Maccabi Netanya
Maccabi Netanya left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Nov 2030
Ellis Spikner signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ellis Spikner and Hapoel Acre agree another 3 years.
The dugout4 Nov 2030
Evgeny Mikhaylov answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
In brief
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Matan David
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Yonatan Weissman
- The dugout Mor Siman-Tov gets picked when it counts