Storm over Yarden Shua's conduct in league match

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Beitar Jerusalem captain Yarden Shua was filmed making a gesture toward Alex Musonda, a Hapoel Petah Tikva player, in the league match at Shlomo Bitan Stadium. According to ONE, earlier Shua committed a foul and exchanged words with Musonda, and then moved away from the area while signaling a bad-smell gesture.

According to Walla, Shua said "He smelled bad, that's all" and addressed the criticism against him online. According to N12, at the end of the match he said: "My name makes more noise, but nonsense."

According to Sport5, Beitar Jerusalem supported the captain, but also expected a different kind of behavior from him. According to ONE, Almog Cohen said the club "is examining the incident."