The first of two encounters in the Europa Conference League Knockout Round Play-offs, as the hometeam PSV will try to edge Maccabi Tel Aviv in their own ballpark.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 4300 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
This should be an exciting match with lots of action and bustle as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Bring it on!
PSV form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Philips Stadion as PSV have scored 29 goals to get 24 points from 11 games. The overall stats in the Eredivisie are 8-0-3 (wins-draws-losses).
It's back home for PSV, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Vitesse away with the result 5-0. Doan, Vinícius, Júnior, Gakpo and Zahavi found the net in that victory. Gakpo (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.82/10. Gakpo scored one goal, served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 8 of 10 times and had 20 successful passes (of 25 total).
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for PSV, as the Eredivisie home game vs SC Heerenveen is only three days away.
PSV are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (29 goals in 11 games). 16 goals have been conceded.
Maccabi Tel Aviv form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Spartak Trnava, Alashkert, HJK, LASK Linz, Shakhter Karagandy and Sutjeska in order to reach knockout round play-offs of Europa Conference League.The visitors are W7-D0-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Ligat ha'Al. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa Conference League stats, they have 7 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss both home and away.
Maccabi Tel Aviv play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-2 victory visiting Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Before that, Maccabi secured a home win against Ironi Kiryat Shmona with the score 1-0.A new game in only three days for Maccabi Tel Aviv, the Ligat ha'Al home match versus Hapoel Haifa. Busy days.
Maccabi have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 24 goals from 11 away matches. As for defending, Maccabi Tel Aviv rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 20 goals from these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Perica 8 goals |   C. Gakpo 7 goals |  Y. Vertessen 6 goals |
PSV missing players
Maccabi Tel Aviv missing players
| PSV | Maccabi Tel Aviv | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 10 | Won | W | 8 | 15 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | ||
| 55 | 31 | Scored | S | 31 | 51 | ||
| 28 | 12 | Conceded | C | 18 | 26 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 84% | ||
| 72% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 92% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 75% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 16% | ||
| 60% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 92% | 60% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | ||
| 6.1 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 6.2 | ||
| 2.7 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.2 | 2.9 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.8 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 5 | ||
| 17.8 | 19.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 12.2 | ||
| 7 | 7.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 5.2 | ||
| 31% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 39% | ||
| 8.8 | 7.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.5 | 6.4 | ||
| 2.9 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.1 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ajax | 22 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 69 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 46 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 64 | 54 |
| 2 | PSV | 22 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 54 | 28 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 29 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 26 | 49 |
| 3 | Feyenoord | 22 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 52 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 9 | 33 | 48 |
| 4 | AZ | 22 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 43 | 26 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 42 |
| 5 | FC Twente | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 34 | 27 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 21 | 7 | 41 |
| 6 | Vitesse | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 15 | -9 | 36 |
| 7 | FC Utrecht | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 39 | 29 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 35 |
| 8 | NEC | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 27 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 17 | -4 | 30 |
| 9 | SC Cambuur | 22 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 38 | 47 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 22 | -9 | 30 |
| 10 | FC Groningen | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 25 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -6 | 25 |
| 11 | SC Heerenveen | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 20 | 31 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -11 | 25 |
| 12 | Heracles | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 23 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 17 | -7 | 23 |
| 13 | RKC Waalwijk | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 17 | -12 | 22 |
| 14 | Go Ahead Eagles | 22 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 19 | -16 | 22 |
| 15 | Willem II | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 21 | 41 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 24 | -20 | 21 |
| 16 | Fortuna Sittard | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 24 | 50 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 23 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 27 | -26 | 19 |
| 17 | Sparta Rotterdam | 22 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 35 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 18 | -18 | 17 |
| 18 | PEC Zwolle | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 36 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 24 | -19 | 16 |
| 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 | 22 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 57 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 39 | 49 |
| 2 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 22 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 33 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 18 | 47 |
| 3 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 38 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 20 | 9 | 41 |
| 4 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 32 | 26 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 33 |
| 5 | Hapoel Hadera | 22 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 13 | -1 | 33 |
| 6 | Maccabi Netanya | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 25 | 22 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 32 |
| 7 | Bnei Sakhnin | 22 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 11 | -5 | 32 |
| 8 | Hapoel Haifa | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 31 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 2 | 30 |
| 9 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 26 | 29 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 14 | -3 | 28 |
| 10 | Ashdod | 22 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 24 | 33 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 15 | -9 | 27 |
| 11 | Beitar Jerusalem | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 30 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 18 | -9 | 21 |
| 12 | Hapoel Nazareth Illit | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 37 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 20 | -19 | 19 |
| 13 | Hapoel Katamon | 22 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 33 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 17 | -18 | 16 |
| 14 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 22 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 31 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 16 | -13 | 14 |
