Hapoel Kfar Saba vs Maccabi Petah Tikva: Match guide and preview

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Israel Ligat ha'Al
Competition: Thu 07.January
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Levita Stadium (5800 seats)

Struggling Hapoel Kfar Saba will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Maccabi Petah Tikva in the upcoming league round. It’s 13th vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba has the fewest clean sheets (1) in Ligat ha'Al
  • Maccabi Petah Tikva have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

The visiting Maccabi Petah Tikva played their last game only three days ago, a Ligat ha'Al match.

D L D L L

Hapoel Kfar Saba form and stats

Hapoel Kfar Saba, who have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Ligat ha'Al, have played 6 Ligat ha'Al games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).

Kfar manager A. Turgeman and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Hapoel Tel Aviv (placed 14th) in the Ligat ha'Al. Prior to that, an away loss at Ironi Kiryat Shmona.

Hapoel Kfar Saba are traveling soon after this match as the Ligat ha'Al match at Bnei Yehuda awaits in three days.

A decent goal production from Kfar in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches. Kfar have conceded 7 in these home matches.

L D W L L

Maccabi Petah Tikva form and stats

3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Maccabi Petah Tikva playing as the away team in the Ligat ha'Al this season.

The attacking players of Maccabi have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 180 minutes.

Maccabi Petah Tikva failed to get anything from their last game, a Ligat ha'Al home match vs Maccabi Tel Aviv (placed 2nd) that ended with defeat 0-1. Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Bnei Sakhnin.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Ashdod in just four days.

Maccabi find the net regularly in their away games. 8 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Maccabi have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Maccabi Petah Tikva - Hapoel Kfar Saba 2-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Hapoel Kfar Saba won three games, two matches ended with a draw and Maccabi Petah Tikva has five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / eight

Top Goalscorers

KfarL. Kizito
L. Kizito
5 goals
Maccabi Petah TikvaL. Abada
L. Abada
4 goals
Maccabi Petah TikvaT. Baribo
T. Baribo
4 goals

Hapoel Kfar Saba missing players

Maccabi Petah Tikva missing players

Hapoel Kfar Saba Maccabi Petah Tikva
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
14 6 1 Played P 2 6 14
3 3 1 Won W 1 3 7
4 1 0 Drew D 1 1 2
7 2 0 Lost L 0 2 5
12 9 3 Scored S 2 8 15
20 7 2 Conceded C 1 7 11
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 83% 86%
71% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 50%
43% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 67% 36%
14% 33% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 7%
7% 17% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 7%
50% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 67% 36%
7% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 17% 43%
50% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 36%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.9 3.5 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 3.5 3.1
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
7.8 8 5 Shots (avg) S ( 3.5 6.3 6.1
2.4 2.3 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 3.2 2.9
36% 64% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 42% 38%
Key stats in Ligat ha'Al this season:
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Ligat ha'Al
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba has the fewest clean sheets (1) in Ligat ha'Al
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba has the most conceded goals in the first half (14) in Ligat ha'Al
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba has the most points from losing position (8) in Ligat ha'Al
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • 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 14 11 1 2 29 11 7 6 1 0 14 4 7 5 0 2 15 7 18 34
2 Maccabi Tel Aviv 14 7 5 2 25 15 6 3 2 1 11 7 8 4 3 1 14 8 10 26
3 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 14 6 5 3 21 17 6 2 3 1 10 9 8 4 2 2 11 8 4 23
4 Maccabi Petah Tikva 14 7 2 5 15 11 8 4 1 3 7 4 6 3 1 2 8 7 4 23
5 Ashdod 13 7 1 5 17 11 6 4 0 2 10 5 7 3 1 3 7 6 6 22
6 Hapoel Haifa 14 5 4 5 19 20 7 4 1 2 8 6 7 1 3 3 11 14 -1 19
7 Ironi Kiryat Shmona 13 5 3 5 10 10 7 3 2 2 6 6 6 2 1 3 4 4 0 18
8 Maccabi Netanya 14 4 5 5 22 19 7 4 1 2 15 6 7 0 4 3 7 13 3 17
9 Bnei Yehuda 14 4 3 7 12 20 8 3 3 2 7 9 6 1 0 5 5 11 -8 15
10 Bnei Sakhnin 13 4 3 6 9 23 5 1 0 4 2 9 8 3 3 2 7 14 -14 15
11 Beitar Jerusalem 13 3 5 5 15 15 8 2 3 3 12 10 5 1 2 2 3 5 0 14
12 Hapoel Hadera 14 3 5 6 15 16 7 2 3 2 11 8 7 1 2 4 4 8 -1 14
13 Hapoel Kfar Saba 14 3 4 7 12 20 6 3 1 2 9 7 8 0 3 5 3 13 -8 13
14 Hapoel Tel Aviv 14 2 4 8 5 18 8 1 4 3 3 11 6 1 0 5 2 7 -13 10