An important duel in the bottom section of the league table, with both teams experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic “six-pointer” with the home team placed 16th and the visitors in 15th place.
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.
Hapoel Afula form and stats
Hapoel Afula's struggle is real here at HaShalom Stadium with only 7 points collected from 8 Liga Leumit games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-4-3.
The home team returns to HaShalom Stadium after sharing the points with Hapoel Petah Tikva (placed 10th) on their last time out; the Liga Leumit game ended 1-1. Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Hapoel Ashkelon.
The lack of attacking qualities in Hapoel Afula means that they have only scored 4 goals in 8 league home games, less than half a goal per match. Hapoel Afula's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 8 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Hapoel Bnei Lod form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Hapoel Bnei Lod, who have the most conceded goals (42) in Liga Leumit, so far with only 3 points returning home. The records show 1-0-7 (win-draw-lose). Bitter travels for Hapoel Bnei Lod as they have lost seven games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Maccabi Ahi Nazareth match.
Hapoel Bnei Lod's last game was the home draw against Maccabi Ahi Nazareth (1-1). A 1-5 loss hosting Hapoel Haifa before that.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Hapoel Bnei Lod's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 22 goals in 8 travels.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Hapoel Bnei Lod - Hapoel Afula 3-0 entered in the official records. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: 2 wins for Hapoel Afula, 5 draws and 3 wins for Hapoel Bnei Lod. Over 2,5 goals: 5 times; under 2,5 goals: 5 games.Top Goalscorers
  M. Abu Anze 3 goals |  B. Ben Yair 3 goals |   Y. Shawat 2 goals |
Hapoel Afula missing players
Hapoel Bnei Lod missing players
| Hapoel Afula | Hapoel Bnei Lod | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 2 | 5 | 15 |
| 23 | 8 | 1 | Conceded | C | 5 | 22 | 42 |
| 88% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 62% | 50% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 94% |
| 31% | 12% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 88% | 88% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 62% | 56% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 44% | 38% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 62% |
| 19% | 38% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 31% |
| 3.6 | 2.9 | 5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.4 | 4.6 |
| 4.1 | 4.9 | 5.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.5 | 4.8 |
| 2 | 2.5 | 2.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.9 | 3.1 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 131 | 55 | 23 | Total Shots | T S | 15 | 57 | 136 |
| 55 | 25 | 9 | Shots on Target | S O | 8 | 23 | 58 |
| 16% | 16% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 22% | 26% |
- Hapoel Afula has the fewest scored goals (4) at home
- Hapoel Afula has the fewest scored goals (9)
- Hapoel Afula has the fewest scored goals in the second half (6)
- Hapoel Afula has the most matches under the total-line (10)
- Hapoel Afula have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Hapoel Afula have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the fewest matches under the total-line (2)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the most conceded goals (22) away
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the most conceded goals (42)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the most conceded goals in the first half (21)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the most conceded goals in the second half (21)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the most matches over the total-line (13)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the the worst goal difference (-17) away
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the the worst goal difference (-27)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Hapoel Bnei Lod have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Hapoel Bnei Lod 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 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 16 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 35 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 20 | 38 |
| 2 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 33 |
| 3 | Hapoel Katamon | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 28 |
| 4 | Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 26 |
| 5 | Hapoel Umm al-Fahm | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 25 |
| 6 | Kafr Qasim | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 24 |
| 7 | Bnei Sakhnin | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -1 | 22 |
| 8 | Hapoel Ramat HaSharon | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 17 | -2 | 22 |
| 9 | Hapoel Acre | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 21 |
| 10 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 21 |
| 11 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| 12 | Hapoel Nazareth Illit | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 18 |
| 13 | Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | -10 | 11 |
| 14 | Hapoel Ashkelon | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 19 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 10 | -5 | 10 |
| 15 | Hapoel Bnei Lod | 16 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 15 | 42 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 22 | -27 | 10 |
| 16 | Hapoel Afula | 16 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 15 | -14 | 8 |