Agudat Sport Ashdod will hope that their home advantage is enough to get a good result from this gruelling duel, against frisky Hapoel Petah Tikva.
- Agudat Sport Ashdod have the fewest scored goals (13) in Liga Leumit
- Hapoel Petah Tikva have scored more than double the goals of Agudat Sport Ashdod.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Agudat Sport Ashdod form and stats
4-3-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Liga Leumit numbers at home for Agudat Sport Ashdod so far this season.
Agudat Sport Ashdod faced defeat in their previous match, away at Hapoel Ramat Gan (0-3). Some supporters pointed their nail-bitten fingers at Graca for missing a penalty kick versus Hapoel Ramat Gan in the 5th minute. It's possible that a goal in that situation would have changed the outcome.
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Hapoel Rishon LeZion.Agudat are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 9 games. Agudat Sport Ashdod have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Hapoel Petah Tikva form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Liga Leumit travels is 5 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. Hapoel Petah Tikva have won three away matches in a row now and will not be intimidated by being the visitors in this fixture.
Hapoel Petah Tikva failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Bnei Yehuda (placed 12th) that ended with defeat 0-2. Before that defeat this side had won at least a draw from seven league fixtures in a row.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Hapoel Kfar Saba at their stadium, the result 3-1.A tale of few goals? 9 of this side's most recent 11 league rounds have seen zero, one or two goals.
The travelling fans enjoy Petah's attacking play in away games, having scored 14 goals in 9 league matches away. As opposed to that, Hapoel Petah Tikva have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
The records show that this isn''t the first time these two teams get together this season, as the results database show this recent match: Hapoel Petah Tikva - Agudat Sport Ashdod 4-0. Head to head data (for the prior five meetings): Agudat Sport Ashdod won three games, one match ended with a draw and Hapoel Petah Tikva managed one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / four.
Top Goalscorers
  I. Shemesh 7 goals |  R. Zikri 4 goals | R. Stein 4 goals |
Agudat Sport Ashdod missing players
Hapoel Petah Tikva missing players
| Agudat Sport Ashdod | Hapoel Petah Tikva | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 1 | Played | P | 5 | 9 | 19 |
| 4 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 13 | 10 | 2 | Scored | S | 7 | 14 | 28 |
| 32 | 8 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 10 | 20 |
| 84% | 78% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 79% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 78% | 79% |
| 47% | 44% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 20% | 44% | 37% |
| 21% | 11% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 33% | 32% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 11% | 5% |
| 42% | 56% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 56% | 47% |
| 26% | 44% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 22% | 26% |
| 47% | 22% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 22% | 26% |
| 2.1 | 2.1 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 6.1 | 5.8 |
| 4.4 | 3.1 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.4 | 3.6 |
| 2.2 | 1.9 | 5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4.2 | 3.5 | 2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 9.7 | 9.5 |
| 1.6 | 1.5 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
| 48% | 83% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 30% | 32% |
| 6.8 | 3.8 | 1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5 | 7.9 | 7.2 |
| 3.4 | 1.1 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1.8 | 2.4 | 2.8 |
- Agudat Sport Ashdod have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Agudat Sport Ashdod have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Agudat Sport Ashdod have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Liga Leumit
- Agudat Sport Ashdod have the fewest scored goals (13) in Liga Leumit
- Agudat Sport Ashdod have the the worst goal difference (-19) in Liga Leumit
- Hapoel Petah Tikva have created more than twice as many corners as Agudat Sport Ashdod.
- Hapoel Petah Tikva have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Hapoel Petah Tikva have scored more than double the goals of Agudat Sport Ashdod.
- Hapoel Petah Tikva haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ironi Tiberias | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 32 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 36 |
| 2 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 19 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 34 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 11 | 12 | 35 |
| 3 | Hapoel Acre | 19 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 26 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 33 |
| 4 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 32 |
| 5 | Hapoel Umm al-Fahm | 19 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 31 |
| 6 | Maccabi Kabilio Jaffa | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 30 |
| 7 | Hapoel Afula | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 28 |
| 8 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 27 |
| 9 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 23 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 12 | -4 | 25 |
| 10 | Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | 19 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 | -1 | 24 |
| 11 | Hapoel Ramat HaSharon | 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 10 | -1 | 24 |
| 12 | Bnei Yehuda | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 23 |
| 13 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 30 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 13 | -8 | 21 |
| 14 | Kafr Qasim | 19 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 12 | -9 | 17 |
| 15 | Hapoel Nof HaGalil | 19 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -15 | 14 |
| 16 | Agudat Sport Ashdod | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 32 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 24 | -19 | 4 |
