Beitar Jerusalem will host Maccabi Tel Aviv today (Sunday) at 20:30 for the hottest game of the 25th cycle in the Premier League. Barak Itzhaki’s team will hope to return with points from the meeting against the leader, while the yellows will come after the big victory over Olympiakos and hope to keep the first place.
The yellow-blacks have lost in four of the last five meetings between the teams in the league, with the only meeting in which they did not surrender being the 2:2 last season at Teddy Stadium. However, in the match between the clubs in the semi-finals of the cup last season, the Jerusalemites won 1:3 on their way to victory.
Outstanding group data in Beitar
# Only three teams in the league allowed more actions in their box to the opposing team than Beitar Jerusalem (545).
# Beitar Jerusalem conceded twice as many goals in the second half (22) than in the first (11).
# Beitar Jerusalem is the team that recorded the most turnovers during the season (3,345).
# The team from the capital won the fewest aerial battles in the league (235).
# Along with Hapoel Haifa, the Yellow-Blacks scored the most goals from penalties (5), but unlike the Reds from Carmel, the Jerusalemites did not miss a single penalty this season (5/5).
# Beitar Jerusalem ranks 13th in the percentage of shots on target (30.7%).
# Only Maccabi Haifa (120) completed more successful elevations than Beitar Jerusalem (102).
# Beitar Jerusalem won the fewest fights in the central third of the field (473).
# In the last five cycles up until now, Beitar Jerusalem has scored only two goals. Only Hapoel Petah Tikva (one goal) has scored less.
Outstanding group data in Maccabi Tel Aviv
# Maccabi Tel Aviv is the team with the highest ball possession percentage in the league (63.9%).
# The Yellows performed 875 actions in the opponent’s square, more than any other team in the league.
# Robbie Keane’s players performed the highest number of successful dribbles in the league (290), while their success percentage in dribble attempts is also the highest – 47.8%.
# The Tel Avivians reach a good scoring position every 25.4 minutes during the season. Only Maccabi Haifa does it in less time (24.8 minutes).
# Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel BS are the only two teams in the league that have not yet conceded a goal from a penalty this season.
# In the last five cycles, the Yellows lead the xG index with 10.39 expected goals, when in practice they scored 11 goals (the most together with Maccabi Haifa).
# Maccabi Tel Aviv is the team with the highest pass accuracy percentage in the league (84.5%).
# Maccabi Tel Aviv committed the most fouls in the offensive third (56).
Prominent personal data (on the eve of menstruation)
Although he scored three goals, Fred Friday is ranked fourth in the league in the index in the xG index, which means that if he had used situations in an average way he would have had about five more goals to his credit.
# Eran Zahavi kicked 103 shots on goal during the season – more than any other player. So far Zahavi is the player involved in the most goals when he scored 12 and assisted six more.
# Dan Beaton creates a scoring situation for his teammates on average every 32.4 minutes. Bitton scored five goals this season, second in the team only to Eran Zahavi who scored six goals.
# Felicio Milson is the player who made the most successful dribbles (62).
# Jordan Shua ranks third in the number of good scoring situations he created for his teammates (12), in total Shua scored seven goals this season and scored another nine himself, and he is involved in 51.6% of Beitar Jerusalem’s goals this season (16/31).
# Gabi Kanikovski is the player who performed the most actions in the attacking third (760), in addition to that he is also the player who completed the most accurate passes in the attacking third (443).
# Yordan Shua scored all five penalties that Beitar Jerusalem received (5/5). The most successful penalties in the league.
# Zohar Zasno is ranked second in the league in the number of sprints he performed – 287.
facts
# In the last ten meetings between the teams in all formats, Maccabi Tel Aviv won six games, Beitar Jerusalem won once and three meetings ended in a draw. The goal balance in these meetings is 7:18 in favor of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
# The last time Beitar Jerusalem defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv in the league was on 04/16/2018 – then the Jerusalemites won 2:3 with goals from Claudimir Pereira, Chen Ezra and Yaacob Sylvester, Omer Atzili and Vidar Kjartenson scored in favor of the yellows from Tel Aviv .
# Beitar Jerusalem’s current coach Barak Itzhaki scored seven goals for Maccabi Tel Aviv as a Beitar Jerusalem player. On the other hand, during his time as a Maccabi Tel Aviv player, Itzhaki found the back of the net only once in games against Beitar Jerusalem.
# The last time a meeting between the teams ended 0:0 was on 12/21/2020, this is also the last time Maccabi Tel Aviv failed to score in a game against Beitar Jerusalem. Since then, seven games have been played between the teams in all formats in which the Tel Avivians won five times, once the teams separated in a draw and once Beitar Jerusalem won.
# Oral Greenfeld, the referee of the match, officiated three matches of Maccabi Tel Aviv this season, in which the Yellows won once and lost twice. Greenfeld refereed Beitar Jerusalem twice this season, when the Jerusalemites won both games.
# The balance of Beitar Jerusalem’s home games this season stands at: three wins, five draws and four losses (14/36 possible points). The Jerusalemites scored 16 goals and conceded 19 goals.
# The balance of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s away games this season stands at: nine wins, two draws, and a single loss (29/36 possible points). The Tel Avivians scored 28 goals and conceded only ten goals.
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