It's game one of two in the Champions League as Maccabi Haifa host Kairat. This is a 1st Qualifying Round fixture played over two legs and nothing will be decided tonight.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
These teams have little in common geographically as Kairat have to travel 4300 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Maccabi Haifa form and stats
Last season, Maccabi's Europa League journey ended in the play-offs.Maccabi haven’t lost a league-game in twelve attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Maccabi Petah Tikva, 122 days ago.
Maccabi Haifa's previous game was a Ligat ha'Al match also played at home, ending 3-2 versus Hapoel Be'er Sheva. The home side are looking to build on that result.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Ironi Kiryat Shmona that finished 1-1.Kairat form and stats
Kairat was sent out of Europa League in the 2nd qualifying round last season.The visitors are W3-D4-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League.
Kairat are travelling after their nice 5-0 home win in the Premier League against Atyrau. As you can tell from the results above, Kairat was very dominant against Atyrau, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-0 (!) with K. Hovhannisyan, J. Kanté, A. Shushenachev (2) and G. Alykulov providing the goals.
Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to Tobol.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Kairat manager A. Shpilevskiy as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Zhetysu.
Kairat are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 13 away goals from 9 games (in the league). It's not easy to score on Kairat as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Shushenachev 9 goals | J. Kanté Martínez 8 goals |  V. Silva de Souza 7 goals |
Maccabi Haifa missing players
Kairat missing players
| Maccabi Haifa | Kairat | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 11 | Won | W | 4 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 4 | ||
| 50 | 33 | Scored | S | 16 | 55 | ||
| 22 | 13 | Conceded | C | 10 | 24 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 80% | ||
| 56% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 44% | ||
| 12% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 24% | ||
| 52% | 47% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 12% | ||
| 5.5 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 3.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.1 | 1.9 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.9 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 5 | ||
| 12.3 | 12.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.1 | 12.2 | ||
| 5.4 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5.6 | ||
| 36% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 40% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Astana | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 41 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 20 | 41 |
| 2 | Tobol | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 36 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 23 | 39 |
| 3 | Kairat | 19 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 43 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 27 | 37 |
| 4 | Akzhayik | 19 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 11 | -1 | 28 |
| 5 | Ordabasy | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 27 |
| 6 | Kyzyl-Zhar | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 25 |
| 7 | Atyrau | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -10 | 25 |
| 8 | Kaspiy | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -1 | 24 |
| 9 | Aktobe | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 15 | -4 | 20 |
| 10 | Taraz | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 16 | -4 | 20 |
| 11 | Arys | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 29 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | -16 | 18 |
| 12 | Shakhter Karagandy | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 15 | -12 | 16 |
| 13 | Kaisar | 18 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 33 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -14 | 12 |
| 14 | Zhetysu | 18 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 17 | 35 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 20 | -18 | 10 |