This promises to be an action-packed encounter for Maccabi Haifa at Sammy Ofer Stadium when the Europa League tournament arrives in town and Kairat with it. Read all about the 2nd Qualifying Round match here!
There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Ligat ha'Al match only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Hapoel Be'er Sheva, was also a home game here at Sammy Ofer Stadium. The away team is better rested.
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.
Maccabi Haifa form and stats
Maccabi have reached this Europa League stage through battling and winning against Zeljeznicar. Last season, Maccabi's Europa League journey ended in the 2nd qualifying round.The story so far in the Ligat ha'Al for Maccabi Haifa at their home stadium (Sammy Ofer Stadium) is 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats.
Maccabi Haifa's previous game was a Ligat ha'Al match also played at home, ending 3-1 versus Hapoel Be'er Sheva. The home side are looking to build on that result. Before that, Maccabi Haifa had a Europa League home game versus Zeljeznicar which ended with a victory 3-1.
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 Maccabi's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won two matches, drawn zero and lost one.
Maccabi are traveling soon after this match as the Ligat ha'Al match at Bnei Sakhnin awaits in three days.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Maccabi Haifa at home in the league. 3 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Kairat form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Artsakh in order to reach 2nd Qualifying Round of Europa League. Kairat was sent out of Europa League in the 2nd qualifying round last season.It's gone fairly well in the Premier League away games so far for Kairat with six points collected from three matches. Kairat have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of five victories in a row regardless of arena. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Kairat are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
A. Abiken scored in Kairat's previous match, the home game against Kaisar that ended 2-1. Preceding that game was the away Premier League victory against Ordabasy with the score of 3-1.
The end of the last match, against Kaisar, was very satisfying as A. Eseola scored the winning goal deep into overtime.
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 two days, this time against Kaisar.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Kairat are regular goalscorers on their travels. Kairat are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 3 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  N. Rukavytsya 4 goals |   A. Aymbetov 4 goals | N. Alip 3 goals |
Maccabi Haifa missing players
Kairat missing players
| Maccabi Haifa | Kairat | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 17 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 7 | 7 | ||
| 41 | 23 | Scored | S | 18 | 55 | ||
| 24 | 11 | Conceded | C | 28 | 35 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 64% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 88% | ||
| 56% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 72% | ||
| 36% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 36% | ||
| 48% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 20% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 5.6 | ||
| 3 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.1 | 3.3 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 295 | 172 | Total Shots | T S | 120 | 228 | ||
| 137 | 77 | Shots on Target | S O | 47 | 98 | ||
| 30% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 48% | ||
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Bnei Yehuda | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Beitar Jerusalem | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Ashdod | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| 8 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 9 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 10 | Hapoel Haifa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 11 | Maccabi Netanya | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Hapoel Hadera | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 0 |
| 14 | Bnei Sakhnin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kaisar | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 22 |
| 2 | Kairat | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 21 |
| 3 | Tobol | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | Astana | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 14 |
| 5 | Shakhter Karagandy | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | Ordabasy | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -2 | 10 |
| 7 | Zhetysu | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 10 |
| 8 | Kyzyl-Zhar | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | -8 | 8 |
| 9 | Taraz | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 7 |
| 10 | Okzhetpes | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 14 | -11 | 4 |
| 11 | Kaspiy | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | -9 | 3 |
| 12 | Irtysh | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |