Maccabi Haifa will host Hapoel Tel Aviv tonight (Sunday) at 20:30 at Sami Ofer Stadium for a game that will close the regular season in the Premier League. Masai Dago’s side will be hoping to get back on the winning track just ahead of the top play-offs, while the Reds will want to bounce back with points ahead of the relegation battle.
In the last meeting between Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Tel Aviv this season, they drew 0:0 in Bloomfield, while in the five league meetings preceding the last game, the Greens won all of them. In fact, the Reds only found the back of the net in one of the last six league games against the champion – in a 5:2 loss at Sami Ofer.
Outstanding group data in Maccabi Haifa
# In the last five rounds, Maccabi Haifa is the team with the highest percentage of accurate passes in the offensive third – 83.9%.
# In their last five games, the Greens have scored just two goals during the second half out of ten goals in total.
# Maccabi Haifa is the team that reached the most good scoring situations this season (90).
# The Greens from Carmel have the highest percentage of kicks converted into goals in the league (13.39). Out of 413 kick attempts, the Greens found the net 55 times this season.
# 40% of Maccabi Haifa’s kicks were on goal, more than any other team in the league.
# Maccabi Haifa is the team that completed the most accurate elevations this season (126).
# Only Maccabi Tel Aviv (890) performed a greater number of actions in the opponent’s square than Maccabi Haifa (687).
# Maccabi Haifa is the team caught in a different position the most times this season – 57 different ones.
Outstanding group data in Hapoel Tel Aviv
# Hapoel Tel Aviv has not scored a goal for five games in a row. This is the longest streak that a team has not scored a goal this season.
# In the last five cycles, the Reds kicked the frame only five times.
# Hapoel Tel Aviv is the team that made the most successful tackles this season (308).
# Hapoel Tel Aviv’s opponents kicked 353 shots, only against Maccabi Tel Aviv more balls were kicked (360).
# The Reds received seven dismissals during the season (the most in the league), of which five dismissals were straight reds.
# Hapoel Tel Aviv has the lowest percentage of shots on target this season (29.2%).
# The Reds are ranked 12th in the league in the category of percentage of accurate passes in the offensive third with only 72.9%.
Outstanding personal data
# Alan Ozbolt ranks fourth in the number of best scoring situations he reached during the second round (9 situations). Despite this, the Slovenian striker of Hapoel Tel Aviv only found the back of the net twice.
# Anan Halaili is the player involved in the largest amount of goals during the second round. Halaili has been involved in nine goals since the start of the round when he scored five and added four more assists.
# Pierre Corneau is ranked fifth in the league in the amount of actions he performed in the offensive third, the French defender of Maccabi Haifa has so far performed 573 actions in the last third of the field.
# Emilius Zubas is the goalkeeper who recorded the highest number of saves this season (99).
# The top scorer of the league, Franzi Piero, is the player who reached the most good scoring situations this season, the striker who scored 14 goals, reached 34 good scoring situations in 20 games in which he participated.
# Hisham Laios and Anan Halaili share the third place in the category of successful dribbles when they performed 56 successful dribbles 21.
# Omri Altman is ranked second in the amount of penalties he took (2).
# Anan Halaili is the player who performed the most sprints this season – 319.
facts
# In the last ten meetings between the teams within the league, Maccabi Haifa won nine games and one game ended in a draw. The balance of goals in these meetings stands at – 5:22 in favor of the greens.
# Hapoel Tel Aviv never managed to keep a clean sheet against Sami Ofer. The last time the greens hosted the reds and failed to score was in the 2015/16 season, when the teams met in the 24th round and drew 0:0, but the game was played at the Netanya stadium.
# Maccabi Haifa scored in all of their games in the league during the season with the exception of the game against Hapoel Tel Aviv in the previous round which ended 0:0.
# Hapoel Tel Aviv beat Maccabi Haifa only once in the last 24 meetings between the teams in all formats. The last victory of the Reds was in the first round of the top playoffs in the 2019/20 season, when the Tel Avivians won 1:2 with goals from Motti Barschatsky and Omer Demari, Maxim Plekoshchenko scored a goal from Zmak. This is also Hapoel Tel Aviv’s only victory against Maccabi Haifa at Sami Ofer since the stadium was established.
# Oral Greenfeld, the referee of the match, officiated three games of Maccabi Haifa this season, when the Greens won all three games. Greenfeld refereed Hapoel Tel Aviv twice this season, when once the Reds lost and once they ended in a draw.
# Maccabi Haifa’s home game record this season stands at nine wins and three draws. In total the Greens with – 83.3% success percentage in home games (30/36 points).
# The balance of Hapoel Tel Aviv’s away games this season stands at: four wins, five draws and four losses. The total of the Reds with – 43.6% success percentage in the away games (17/39 points).
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