Home advantage could prove decisive in Maccabi Yavne - Maccabi Ashdod battle

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Competition: Israel Liga Alef - Süd
Competition: Thu 08.December
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Yavne Municipal Stadium (4000 seats)

Maccabi Yavne are positioned 4th, while Maccabi Ashdod are hanging back 6 points behind in the standings. Will they cut the gap?

Insights:
  • Maccabi Yavne have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Maccabi Yavne have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Maccabi Ashdod have scored away.

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Maccabi Yavne form and stats

When playing at home in the Liga Alef - Süd, Maccabi Yavne have managed 4 wins, 0 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games. Maccabi Yavne has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Yavne Municipal Stadium. We remember; it was Ironi Kuseife.

In their previous game, the manager Yosi led his Maccabi Yavne to a defeat away at Hapoel Kfar Shalem. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Yavne Municipal Stadium. Up until that game this club had gone six consecutive league matches without losing.

Ahead of that match, Maccabi won a home game hosting MS Dimona (2-0).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Maccabi Yavne have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 2 and lost 2.

Goals decide football matches and Maccabi Yavne are scoring many of them at home; 10 on target from 4 league matches. Maccabi have only conceded 2 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Maccabi Ashdod form and stats

The visitors are W1-D1-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Liga Alef - Süd.

Maccabi Ashdod's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Holon Yermiyahu that finished 1-1.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Ironi Kuseife with the score of 2-0.

Maccabi Ashdod are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.

Low-scoring game? 8 of this team's latest 10 league fixtures have contained two or less goals.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Maccabi as they have only managed to score 3 times from 4 away games in the league.

Head 2 Head

As for the last three games between these two teams, there's zero Maccabi Yavne victories, one draw and two Maccabi Ashdod wins. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Maccabi Yavne missing players

Maccabi Ashdod missing players

Maccabi Yavne Maccabi Ashdod
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 4 1 Played P 2 4 10
6 4 1 Won W 0 1 3
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 5
2 0 0 Lost L 2 2 2
15 10 2 Scored S 0 3 11
7 2 0 Conceded C 3 4 9
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 80%
60% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 75% 60%
50% 75% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 20%
20% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 20%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
40% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 40%
50% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 40%
20% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 40%
 
5.4 4.5 4 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 6.5 4.7
3.7 4.2 10 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 3 4.5
2.2 2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.4 9.2 6 Shots (avg) S ( 13 13.5 10.2
3.9 4.5 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4.5 3.8
37% 56% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 17% 29%
 
9.9 9.5 17 Shots against (avg) S A 11.5 9.5 8.3
3.3 3.2 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 3 2.9
Key stats in Liga Alef - Süd this season:
  • All of Maccabi Yavne's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Maccabi Ashdod have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
  • Maccabi Ashdod have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Maccabi Ashdod haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Maccabi Yavne have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Maccabi Yavne have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Maccabi Yavne have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Maccabi Ashdod have scored away.
  • Maccabi Yavne have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Maccabi Yavne have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Maccabi Yavne have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Maccabi Yavne haven’t played a single 0-0 game at 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 Hapoel Herzliya 10 8 1 1 19 5 4 3 1 0 9 1 6 5 0 1 10 4 14 25
2 Maccabi Herzliya 10 7 3 0 25 12 6 5 1 0 16 9 4 2 2 0 9 3 13 24
3 Hapoel Kfar Shalem 10 5 5 0 17 9 5 3 2 0 7 4 5 2 3 0 10 5 8 20
4 Maccabi Yavne 10 6 2 2 15 7 4 4 0 0 10 2 6 2 2 2 5 5 8 20
5 Hapoel Bikat Hayarden 10 5 3 2 15 12 6 3 2 1 9 7 4 2 1 1 6 5 3 18
6 MS Dimona 10 3 5 2 16 9 5 1 3 1 6 5 5 2 2 1 10 4 7 14
7 Maccabi Ashdod 10 3 5 2 11 9 6 2 4 0 8 5 4 1 1 2 3 4 2 14
8 Holon Yermiyahu 10 2 7 1 9 9 5 1 3 1 6 7 5 1 4 0 3 2 0 13
9 Hapoel Marmorek 10 3 4 3 10 12 6 3 1 2 6 7 4 0 3 1 4 5 -2 13
10 Shimshon Tel Aviv 10 4 0 6 13 17 5 3 0 2 9 5 5 1 0 4 4 12 -4 12
11 Bnei Eilat 10 3 2 5 22 24 5 2 1 2 13 11 5 1 1 3 9 13 -2 11
12 Ironi Modi'in 10 1 5 4 10 15 5 1 3 1 5 6 5 0 2 3 5 9 -5 8
13 Maccabi Shaarayim 10 1 4 5 8 14 4 1 1 2 5 6 6 0 3 3 3 8 -6 7
14 Ironi Kuseife 10 1 2 7 6 16 5 1 1 3 2 7 5 0 1 4 4 9 -10 5
15 Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla 10 0 4 6 5 16 5 0 2 3 2 10 5 0 2 3 3 6 -11 4
16 Shimshon Kafr Qasim 10 0 4 6 11 26 4 0 3 1 3 4 6 0 1 5 8 22 -15 4