Delightful dogfight as daring Hapoel Acre duel with determined Hapoel Afula

Hapoel Afula are still fighting for top positions and their benefits.

Hapoel Acre have less rest than Hapoel Afula in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Liga Leumit game only four days ago. That game was an away game at Hapoel Ramat Gan, so at least Hapoel Acre are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

Hapoel Acre form and stats

4 victories, 9 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Hapoel Acre have to build on here at Acre Municipal Stadium in the Liga Leumit. When Hapoel Acre hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla, Hapoel Acre, Maccabi Ahi Nazareth and Hapoel Ra'anana), they have won 2 of 3 matches! In general it's been a long time since Acre tasted defeat here at Acre Municipal Stadium, as they have taken at least one point from their last 13 home games in the league.

Hapoel Acre lost their last game at Hapoel Ramat Gan after a 0-2 scoreline.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Bnei Yehuda that ended 1-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Hapoel Acre handle that role? We have found four games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, two draws and zero defeats.

Acre are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 16 goals in 15 games. Hapoel Acre have only conceded 10 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. Hapoel Acre has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

Hapoel Afula form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Hapoel Afula so far with only 13 points returning home. The records show 4-1-10 (win-draw-lose). When Hapoel Afula is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 2 of 3 matches. Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla, Hapoel Afula, Maccabi Ahi Nazareth and Hapoel Ra'anana is teams we like to compare Hapoel Acre with. Hapoel Afula has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Afula failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla that ended with defeat 0-2.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Hapoel Umm al-Fahm at their stadium, the result 3-1.

We have checked recent matches where Hapoel Afula have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 14 games were three victories, three draws and eight defeats.

Hapoel Afula have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 15 league away games 16 goals have been scored. Many of these goals have come late in the games; more than 55 percent (13 goals) after the 60th minute. For Afula, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. More than 50 percent of these were let in from the 60th minute and onwards in these in the last 30 minutes of games. When Hapoel Afula is visiting a side on the bottom half, 3 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla, Hapoel Afula, Maccabi Ahi Nazareth and Hapoel Ra'anana.

Head 2 Head

This was the score when the sides faced each other earlier this season; Hapoel Afula - Acre 1-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Hapoel Acre victories, four draws and three Hapoel Afula wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

K. Aboubakar 10 goals

I. Haj 5 goals

Hapoel Acre missing players

Hapoel Afula missing players