Bnei Sakhnin vs Hapoel Petah Tikva: 2-0 at Doha Stadium

Bnei Sakhnin beat Hapoel Petah Tikva 2-0 in the Ligat Ha’al on Saturday 17 October 2026, at Doha Stadium in Sakhnin. The goals came from Ahmed Ibrahim Salman and Mathew Anim Cudjoe. I have 107 photographs of the match, and this page shows some of them.

What I know about the match, and what I don’t

The score, the stadium and the scorers’ names come from SoccerVital, the only site I found that lists this match in detail. Both goals are Sakhnin’s, as the score requires. The same site counts eight yellow cards over the evening, but the minutes it gives for the goals, the cards and the substitutions contradict each other in places, so there are no minutes here. What the data does not confirm stays out of the page.

The photographs do not tell who scored or when either. The gallery has no frame marked as a goal, and I do not guess. What it does show is how this match looked from where I stood: duels in the air, blocks, a ball controlled between two players.

Cudjoe, in the work around the goals

Mathew Anim Cudjoe, one of Sakhnin’s two scorers according to the data, appears here trying to block a pass by Yazen Nassar of Petah Tikva. The ball is with Nassar and Cudjoe is closing on it. It is not a moment of a goal but of pressure on a player ready to pass.

Yazen Nassar of Hapoel Petah Tikva prepares to pass while Mathew Anim Cudjoe of Bnei Sakhnin tries to block the ball — Yazen Nassar prepares to pass; Cudjoe tries to block.

High balls

Some of the best frames of the evening are aerial duels. Iyad Abu Abaid of Sakhnin heads the ball in mid-jump. On the other side Or Israelov of Petah Tikva, who wears number 20, jumps for a header of his own.

Iyad Abu Abaid of Bnei Sakhnin heads the ball while jumping — Iyad Abu Abaid heads the ball.

Or Israelov of Hapoel Petah Tikva jumps to head the ball — Or Israelov jumps to head the ball.

Blocks

Modestas Vorobjovas of Sakhnin dives to block a shot. In another frame Yves Erick Bile of Petah Tikva slides in to stop the ball while Ori Dahan of Sakhnin runs towards him. The two moments have one thing in common: whoever tries to stop the ball is ready to pay for it with his body.

Modestas Vorobjovas of Bnei Sakhnin dives to block a shot — Modestas Vorobjovas dives to block.

Yves Erick Bile of Hapoel Petah Tikva slides to block the ball while Ori Dahan of Bnei Sakhnin runs towards it — Yves Erick Bile slides in; Ori Dahan runs towards the ball.

In midfield

Karim Kimvuidi of Petah Tikva is in many of the frames. Here he challenges Saná Gomes of Sakhnin, who is trying to control the ball, and in another he runs after Ilay Hajaj, who shields the ball from him. Tomer Altman of Petah Tikva, in shirt number 8, is caught striking the ball with his right foot.

Saná Gomes of Bnei Sakhnin controls the ball while Karim Kimvuidi of Hapoel Petah Tikva challenges for it — Saná Gomes controls the ball while Kimvuidi challenges.

Ilay Hajaj of Bnei Sakhnin shields the ball while Karim Kimvuidi of Hapoel Petah Tikva runs to win it — Ilay Hajaj shields the ball; Kimvuidi runs after it.

Tomer Altman of Hapoel Petah Tikva strikes the ball with his right foot — Tomer Altman strikes with his right foot.

The yellow cards

According to SoccerVital the cautioned players were Ilay Hajaj, Stav Israeli, Ori Dahan, Alex Moussounda, Yves Erick Bile, Yazen Nassar, Karim Kimvuidi and Or Israelov. Six of them appear in the photographs on this page: Hajaj, Dahan, Bile, Kimvuidi, Israelov and Nassar. Who was booked for what, and in which minute, I do not know, so I draw no conclusions.

Players with a page of their own

Several players in the gallery have a page on this site with all their photographs: Ilay Hajaj, Modestas Vorobjovas, Ahmed Taha, Ori Dahan, Daniel Paraschiv, Jabeir Bushnak, Mathew Anim Cudjoe and Saná. The match has a match page that gathers the gallery’s details.

All the photographs

All 107 photographs are in the match gallery. What is for sale is in the shop, and a frame that is not there can be requested on the contact page. The Hebrew version of this page is here.

Match data from SoccerVital. All photographs on this page were taken by Asaf Hoffman at this match.