Vitalie Damașcan opened the scoring for Hapoel Jerusalem on Sunday, 18 October 2026, away at Hapoel Beer-Sheva, on matchday 7 of the Israeli top flight. Moldfootball reported it in the evening. Sport5 described the goal: a run of about 65 metres after a ball taken from halfway, with the defence pushed up. It was 0-1 at the break. It finished 2-1 to the hosts.

Damașcan was substituted in the 63rd minute. Igor Zlatanović, on from the bench, equalised in the 74th and scored the winning penalty in the 84th, after Ofek Nadir’s red card in the 82nd. Rotascore puts the assist for the Moldovan’s goal with Christ Junior Tiehi, in the 35th minute, at Turner Stadium. After seven rounds Hapoel Jerusalem sit 9th of 14.

For the striker it is a second league goal in five matches, plus one in the Toto Cup. Sport5 notes it is his first career goal against Beer-Sheva. The hosts have a fourth straight league win and a ninth in a row against Jerusalem. A VAR-disallowed goal in the 58th kept the tension before the turnaround.

Damașcan did not win the match and did not lift his side into the top half. He scored, he went off, and the champions turned it around a man up. That is the news for a reader in Chișinău: a Moldovan goal in a 1-2 defeat in Beer-Sheva, not a title night.

The table keeps Hapoel Jerusalem well off the pace. Beer-Sheva are 4th, on 16 points from seven games, according to Rotascore. A 65-metre goal does not rewrite the standings; it only rewrites the minute sheet at Turner.

Anyone who reads only “Damașcan scored” misses the second half. Anyone who deletes the goal because the match was still lost also deletes why the game reached the papers at home.

Image: Little Savage, Turner Stadium, Beer-Sheva, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons; archive ground, not the 18 October 2026 goal.

Sources consulted: Vitalie Damascan scored in the Israeli championship - Moldfootball; Damascan's solo against Beer-Sheva - Sport5.