Mohammed Khatib

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Hapoel Acre
3 Jan 2027
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The Hapoel Acre Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Hapoel Acre end the wait against Bnei Yehuda

It had gone 14 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Emmanuel Solomon at 19 — 8.15

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Emmanuel Solomon did not need any: 8.15, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

Osama Khalaila the difference as Hapoel Acre beat Bnei Yehuda

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Osama Khalaila. 3‑1 against Bnei Yehuda, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Mohammed Khatib runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Aviv Kanarik

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Osama Khalaila

Marked 8.58 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Words at Hapoel Acre training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yadin Lugasi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Looking ahead

Everything rides on Hapoel Raanana

Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Hapoel Acre know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.

The dugout

Guy David has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Guy David on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

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The Hapoel Acre Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Hapoel Acre rebuffed over Maik

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

Player ratings

Mohammed Khatib runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

13 new faces, and Hapoel Acre are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Transfer targets

Hapoel Acre try to borrow Zohar Zasano

Maccabi Haifa have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

The form table has caught Nitai Greis

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Guy David was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Hapoel Acre dressing room was either.

Match

Point won or two lost for Hapoel Acre?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Bnei Yehuda? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

The dugout

Michael Merenstein left out for tactical reasons at Hapoel Acre

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Squad

Roei Shukrani says his piece

“If we are going to be beaten, let it not be because somebody in here could not be bothered.” He stood up and said it in front of everybody, which is a thing a squad remembers about a man for years.

In brief