Hapoel Beer Sheva vs OFI 0-2

OFI won 2-0 in Bucharest. First-half stoppage time and an early second-half strike did the damage. Hapoel Beer Sheva had more of the ball and more attempts, but OFI held their lead and added a second after the break.

Achilleas Poungouras put OFI ahead three minutes into first-half stoppage time. Taxiarchis Fountas then made it 2-0 in the 56th minute, finishing from Nikolaos Athanasiou's assist. The half-time score was Hapoel Beer Sheva 0-1 OFI.

Hapoel Beer Sheva made two changes on 62 minutes, sending on Igor Zlatanović and Amir Chaim·Ganah, and later turned to Javon East and Pedro Miguel Santos Amador. OFI responded to their lead by replacing Taxiarchis Fountas with Aitor Cantalapiedra on 64 minutes, then made two more changes in first-half stoppage time, with Borja González coming on for Athanasios Androutsos after a VAR review ruled out a goal for OFI. Nikolaos Athanasiou was booked in the 23rd minute before his assist, while Hapoel Beer Sheva picked up three yellow cards through Forson Amankwah, Hamode Kanaan and Djibril diop.

The statistics backed Hapoel Beer Sheva's greater share of the game. It had 62% possession, 573 passes to OFI's 336, 16 shots to 11, 4 on target to 3, and 1.52 expected goals to 0.72. Hapoel Beer Sheva also had 4 corners to 2, while OFI made 4 saves to Hapoel Beer Sheva's 1.

There were four bookings in all. OFI had one, for Nikolaos Athanasiou in the 23rd minute, and Hapoel Beer Sheva had three, for Forson Amankwah on 69 minutes, Hamode Kanaan on 83 minutes and Djibril diop in the third minute of stoppage time.