From Flying Kiwis.
Yipe tough for Marinvoic to stop that rocket shot for Hapoel Beer-Shev's 3rd & winning goal
https://youtu.be/uqHwvp99WJMStefan Marinovic was the most surprising unexplained absence in the All Whites squad to face Australia. He’d lost the starting gig to Oli Sail over the previous two windows and perhaps didn’t want to fly all the way back home just to sit on the bench. Or maybe he was just straight up dropped. Dunno.
What we can say for sure is that he’s the number one for Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Unfortunately after a relieving 2-0 win last week, they weren’t able to keep that consistency going this time around. At home to Hapoel Beer-Sheva they took the lead on 23’ as Kayes Ganem scored a very direct counter attack, finishing it with a wonderful left-footed curler. They held that lead for ages. Way into the second half.
Marinovic made a fine one-handed stop at his near post soon after the opener. Ten minutes later he had no hope as HBS took a pop that nearly snapped his crossbar in half, phew. Then a header went over his bar. Finally in the 60th minute there wasn’t much he could do as Astrit Selmani nodded in at the back stick... but within two minutes El Yam Kancepolsky had slammed Tel Aviv back into the lead. Thumping strike with a helpful deflection.
2-1 up with half an hour to go? If only they’d kept it up. Alas, five minutes after retaking the lead they got turned around on the left edge of their defence. Marinovic palmed away the low cross but couldn’t do the same with the follow-up shot through a crowd of defenders in front of him. After 80 mins it seemed that Hapoel Tel Aviv were sure to retake the lead but failed to convert on the rebound from about six yards out.
Before the ball even went out of play, Beer-Sheva then rolled down the other end and won it with a blast from outside the area that was as close to literally unsaveable as it gets. 3-2 to Hapoel Beer-Sheva. Bugger. HTA have lost three of their first four Premier League games.