Sabah snatch it late to level the tie

I would have been absolutely buzzing if I had caught that live, those are the moments that make the whole evening worth it and I am gutted I only saw the clips after
 
The big takeaway is that Sabah did not panic when the game looked gone. They kept forcing the issue late on, and that kind of composure can matter just as much as the actual strike.
 
Sabah were getting the ball into the right areas and the late set piece was the kind of routine you only really see when a team has kept enough shape to punish tired legs, Hapoel switched off at the worst possible moment and paid for it
 
On paper this is a simple late equaliser on aggregate, but the context makes it feel much bigger because it changes the whole emotional balance of the tie and gives Sabah real momentum going into whatever comes next. Hapoel will be furious because they had the game under control for so long, and then one lapse at the end turns it into a night everyone remembers for the wrong reasons, and honestly once that ball hit the net you could almost feel the despair through the screen because it was one of those moments where the defending side just looks stunned and the attacking side is completely possessed by the occasion, and that is before you even get into the reaction videos and the absolute chaos afterwards, bloody hell what a way to finish
 
I dont want to single anyone out too hard but Hapoel looked completely unsure of themselves when it mattered and that is on them, the concentration just vanished, the clearances were weak, the shape was gone, and then that final moment arrives and you are left staring at the screen wondering how a side can throw away a situation like that after getting so close to seeing it out, and the worst part is you know the lads on the bench must be sick because it was there to be managed properly and they just couldnt do it, absolute nightmare for that player and the back line because once the pressure came on they folded and now everyone will remember his side of the mistake instead of the ninety minutes before it
 
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