KAFR QASIM, Israel (Interstat) — MS Kafr Qasim defeated visiting Beitar Petah Tikva 5-2 on Monday after a scoreless first half. The home side scored four goals in a 19-minute span before Beitar Petah Tikva answered, and MS Kafr Qasim added a final goal in second-half stoppage time. The result gave MS Kafr Qasim a home victory in the competition and handed Beitar Petah Tikva its first loss in the competition this season. The match remained without a goal until the second half, when MS Kafr Qasim took control of the scoring. The visitors’ two goals came in the second half and trimmed the margin to two before the closing goal.

Hadar Fuchs opened the scoring in the 49th minute for MS Kafr Qasim. Christopher Igwe doubled the lead in the 55th minute. MS Kafr Qasim added goals in the 61st and 68th minutes to build a 4-0 advantage. Beitar Petah Tikva then scored in the 70th minute and again in the 87th minute to cut the deficit to 4-2. MS Kafr Qasim closed the scoring in the second minute of second-half stoppage time for the 5-2 final. The goals from Fuchs and Igwe came before MS Kafr Qasim’s two-goal burst in the 61st and 68th minutes.

Fuchs finished with one goal while playing the full match, and Igwe also scored once while playing the full match. Their goals were the first two of the game for MS Kafr Qasim. The home side’s scoring surge came after neither team found the net in the first half. MS Kafr Qasim led 2-0 after Igwe’s goal and then extended the margin with goals in the 61st and 68th minutes. Beitar Petah Tikva’s two goals came after MS Kafr Qasim had built its four-goal lead.

The win moved MS Kafr Qasim to 1-0 in the competition and 3-3 across all competitions. Beitar Petah Tikva moved to 1-1 in the competition and 1-1 across all competitions. MS Kafr Qasim’s competition record now stands at one win and no losses, while its all-competitions record stands at three wins and three losses. Beitar Petah Tikva’s competition record now stands at one win and one loss, and its all-competitions record also stands at one win and one loss. The result was MS Kafr Qasim’s third win across all competitions this season and Beitar Petah Tikva’s first loss in the competition. The home side finished with five goals and Beitar Petah Tikva finished with two.

Beitar Petah Tikva had beaten Gissin Petah Tikva 4-0 in its previous competition match. MS Kafr Qasim had lost 1-0 at home to SC Ashdod, lost 2-1 at Kiryat Yam, lost 1-0 at home to Bnei Yehuda, won 2-1 at H. Raanana and won 1-0 at Kiryat Gat in earlier competition matches. Those results came before the Monday match and were part of both teams’ prior competition schedules.

The match featured seven goals in total, all of them after halftime. MS Kafr Qasim scored in the 49th, 55th, 61st, 68th and 90th-plus-2 minutes. Beitar Petah Tikva scored in the 70th and 87th minutes. The home team held a four-goal lead before the visitors scored twice. The visitors’ second goal made it 4-2 before the final goal. MS Kafr Qasim then restored a three-goal margin with the final goal of the game.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of MS Kafr Qasim 1, Beitar Petah Tikva 1. Interstat’s ELO system had projected MS Kafr Qasim with an 83.1 percent probability to win. MS Kafr Qasim had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -1.5. The total score of 7 went under the over/under line of 3.5.