Ligat ha'Al match prediction and preview for Hapoel Be'er Sheva vs Maccabi Petah Tikva clash

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Competition: Israel Ligat ha'Al
Competition: Wed 23.December
Match begins: 18:15 (UTC)
Venue: Teddi Malcha Stadium (21600 seats)

Hapoel Be'er Sheva will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 2 points behind Maccabi Petah Tikva.

Insights:
  • Hapoel Be'er Sheva have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Maccabi Petah Tikva have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Hapoel Be'er Sheva form and stats

When playing at home in the Ligat ha'Al, Hapoel Be'er Sheva have managed 2 wins, 3 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 5 games.

It's back home for Be'er, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Hapoel Tel Aviv away with the result 3-0. Josué, G. Varenne and S. Sallalich found the net in that victory. A 2-2 draw away before that, with Hapoel Hadera the opponent.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Hapoel Be'er Sheva's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played two games, won two matches, drawn zero and lost zero.

Be'er are traveling soon after this match as the Ligat ha'Al match at Bnei Yehuda awaits in four days.

A decent goal production from Be'er in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 5 league matches. Hapoel Be'er Sheva's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 7 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Maccabi Petah Tikva form and stats

The visitors are W2-D1-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Ligat ha'Al.

Maccabi Petah Tikva failed to get anything from their last game, a Ligat ha'Al home match vs Maccabi Haifa (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 1-2. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Maccabi Netanya wasn't a success with a 2-3 loss.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Maccabi Petah Tikva playing away, we found one game. Results were one away win, zero draws and zero home wins.

A quick return to home after this game, as Maccabi Petah Tikva are hosting Bnei Sakhnin in the Ligat ha'Al only four days away.

Maccabi find the net regularly in their away games. 6 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Maccabi have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Hapoel Be'er Sheva-Maccabi Petah Tikva H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Hapoel Be'er Sheva nine wins, Maccabi Petah Tikva zero wins, one draw. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Be'erG. Varenne
G. Varenne
6 goals
Hapoel Be'er ShevaJ. Soares Pesqueira
J. Soares Pesqueira
4 goals
Hapoel Be'er ShevaI. Shviro
I. Shviro
3 goals

Hapoel Be'er Sheva missing players

Maccabi Petah Tikva missing players

Hapoel Be'er Sheva Maccabi Petah Tikva
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 5 1 Played P 1 5 11
4 2 1 Won W 1 2 6
5 3 0 Drew D 0 1 1
2 0 0 Lost L 0 2 4
17 9 3 Scored S 2 6 13
15 7 2 Conceded C 1 6 9
82% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 91%
82% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 60% 55%
73% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 60% 36%
45% 60% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 9%
9% 20% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 9%
64% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 60% 36%
27% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 45%
27% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 27%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 2.6 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 3.2 3.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.8 9 4 Shots (avg) S ( 7 6.2 5.8
4.2 4.4 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3 2.6
37% 41% 150% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 40% 45%
Key stats in Ligat ha'Al this season:
  • Hapoel Be'er Sheva have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Hapoel Be'er Sheva have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Maccabi Petah Tikva have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Maccabi Haifa 11 8 1 2 23 11 5 4 1 0 10 4 6 4 0 2 13 7 12 25
2 Ashdod 11 6 1 4 15 9 5 4 0 1 10 4 6 2 1 3 5 5 6 19
3 Maccabi Petah Tikva 11 6 1 4 13 9 6 4 0 2 7 3 5 2 1 2 6 6 4 19
4 Maccabi Netanya 11 4 5 2 21 14 5 4 1 0 15 3 6 0 4 2 6 11 7 17
5 Maccabi Tel Aviv 11 4 5 2 19 15 5 2 2 1 10 7 6 2 3 1 9 8 4 17
6 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 11 4 5 2 17 15 5 2 3 0 9 7 6 2 2 2 8 8 2 17
7 Ironi Kiryat Shmona 11 4 3 4 9 9 6 2 2 2 5 6 5 2 1 2 4 3 0 15
8 Hapoel Haifa 11 4 2 5 15 17 6 4 0 2 8 6 5 0 2 3 7 11 -2 14
9 Bnei Yehuda 11 4 2 5 11 14 6 3 2 1 6 6 5 1 0 4 5 8 -3 14
10 Bnei Sakhnin 10 4 1 5 8 21 4 1 0 3 2 8 6 3 1 2 6 13 -13 13
11 Beitar Jerusalem 10 3 3 4 10 9 6 2 2 2 8 5 4 1 1 2 2 4 1 12
12 Hapoel Kfar Saba 11 3 2 6 10 17 5 3 0 2 8 6 6 0 2 4 2 11 -7 11
13 Hapoel Hadera 11 2 4 5 13 14 6 1 3 2 9 7 5 1 1 3 4 7 -1 10
14 Hapoel Tel Aviv 11 1 3 7 3 13 6 1 3 2 2 6 5 0 0 5 1 7 -10 6