League Play-Off

Gannot
Spectators: 36 (Terracing: 28, Seating: 8, VIP seats: 0) Prosper Michalashvili started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. Ofer Knafo made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Prosper Michalashvili in the 3rd minute of play. Ofer Knafo showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Prosper Michalashvili, who was totally free with the ball in the 7th minute. After having played for 10 minutes, Jaden Grinblatt managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. FC Dafnah's supporters crossed their fingers, but Jaden Grinblatt was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. In the 16th minute, Arion Margalit hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Prosper Michalashvili did some fancy footwork in front of goal and succeeded to deceive the defenders so he could slam the ball in 1-0 to the left of a surprised Ofer Knafo 18 minutes into the match. In the 22nd minute of the match Shaan Guggenheim shot from a long distance. The ball could have gone into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper, but Yonni Markus showed his good shape when he easily got hold of the ball. In the 27th minute, Jaden Grinblatt got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. A collision led to FC Dafnah getting a freekick after 28 minutes play. Alvon Adamson hit a great ball. Jaden Grinblatt received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 32nd minute. Yonni Markus tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. In the 34thth minute of the game Yoshafat Dali who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but SC Gannot's Yonni Markus was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. An unexpectedly hard shot by Jaden Grinblatt in the 38th minute of play forced SC Gannot's goalkeeper Yonni Markus to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. SC Gannot's Yonni Markus played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Alvon Adamson in the 39th minute of play. Yoshafat Dali fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 42nd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Yonni Markus having to interfere. FC Dafnah's Jaden Grinblatt got a good chance for a goal in the 47th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Af the end of the first half the score was 1-0. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

In the 52nd minute, FC Dafnah's Yoshafat Dali ran free of his marker and smoothly shot the ball into the goal behind Yonni Markus. Yonni Markus yelled at his defense, as they had left him out to dry. 1-1. 58 minutes into the match, FC Dafnah's goal looked a bit too open when Manuel Elimelech came free, but Ofer Knafo reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Yoshafat Dali fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 60th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Yonni Markus having to interfere. Prosper Michalashvili received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 66th minute. Ofer Knafo tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. If Manuel Elimelech had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 68th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. In the 70th minute Manuel Elimelech shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Ofer Knafo saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Jaden Grinblatt fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 72nd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Yonni Markus having to interfere. Elmarad Malmilyan kicked well hit freekick during the 73rd minute of the match. Yonni Markus was out of position in the 77 minute of play, and Yoshafat Dali capitalized on the mistake with a soft shot into the goal. Yoshafat Dali really showed his touch with that goal: 1-2. Yoshafat Dali fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 84th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Yonni Markus having to interfere. Prosper Michalashvili fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 89th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Ofer Knafo having to interfere. Jaden Grinblatt might have been able to make a better finish in the 93rd minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Yonni Markus. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Jaden Grinblatt ran back to his position shaking his head. The audience was convinced that Yoshafat Dali's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Yonni Markus was relentless in the 95th minute of the game. When the final whistle sounded FC Dafnah left the ground with the victory after a much better performance than SC Gannot.