The Beitar Jerusalem Gazette
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Yarden Shua runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market30 Aug 2027
Gil Cohen hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Beitar Jerusalem can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Beitar Jerusalem
Gil Cohen 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Guy Glazer comes home
The shirt still fits. Guy Glazer is back at Beitar Jerusalem, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market30 Aug 2027
Dor Weissman is a Beitar Jerusalem player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market30 Aug 2027
Guy Benayoun comes home
The shirt still fits. Guy Benayoun is back at Beitar Jerusalem, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Adi Yona in the eights
A performance of 8.94 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Rustam Turdimurodov gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
One of those days for Tomer Yosefi
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.53, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
- Squad Tomer Yosefi is off the mark for Beitar Jerusalem
- Squad Adi Yona is off the mark for Beitar Jerusalem