Struggling Hapoel Afula will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Hapoel Ramat Gan in the upcoming league round. It’s 14th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
Hapoel Afula have less rest than Hapoel Ramat Gan in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Liga Leumit game only four days ago. That game was an away game at Maccabi Ahi Nazareth, so at least Afula are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Hapoel Afula form and stats
0-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Liga Leumit numbers at home for Hapoel Afula, who have the fewest points (1) at home in Liga Leumit, so far this season. We have seen two home losses in a row now for Afula, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.
Happy days for Afula in their previous game, a Liga Leumit match away at Maccabi Ahi Nazareth (placed 8th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Before that game, the home loss against Hapoel Katamon with the scoreline 0-2.
The manager S. Dora will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Sektzia Nes Tziona in only four days.
The Afula fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 4 in 4 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Afula with 8 goals conceded in these matches.
Hapoel Ramat Gan form and stats
As the visiting team in Liga Leumit matches, Hapoel Ramat Gan, who have the most scored goals (17) in Liga Leumit, have produced an overall stat of 1-3-1 so far. Ramat has drawn their two previous away games.
The supporters enjoyed Hapoel Ramat Gan's previous game versus Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla (placed 7th), a Liga Leumit 1-0 win played at home. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Hapoel Umm al-Fahm that ended 2-2.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Ramat have scored 7 goals in 5 league games away. Hapoel Ramat Gan have conceded 6 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Hapoel Afula five wins, three draws and Hapoel Ramat Gan two victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), eight games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Maman 5 goals |  M. Plenckauskas Cordeiro 2 goals | H. Messika 2 goals |
Hapoel Afula missing players
Hapoel Ramat Gan missing players
| Hapoel Afula | Hapoel Ramat Gan | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Scored | S | 6 | 7 | 17 |
| 15 | 8 | 4 | Conceded | C | 4 | 6 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 70% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 80% |
| 20% | 25% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 40% | 40% |
| 10% | 25% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 40% | 20% |
| 10% | 25% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 80% | 50% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 40% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4 | 3.2 | 5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.8 | 3.3 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 66 | 22 | 9 | Total Shots | T S | 40 | 58 | 116 |
| 23 | 9 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 19 | 25 | 53 |
| 35% | 44% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 28% | 32% |
- Hapoel Afula has the fewest points (1) at home in Liga Leumit
- Hapoel Afula have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Hapoel Afula have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Hapoel Afula have yet to win a game at home.
- Hapoel Afula haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Hapoel Afula is in the worst form (1-0-5)
- Hapoel Ramat Gan has the most scored goals (17) in Liga Leumit
- Hapoel Ramat Gan has the the best goal difference (+10) in Liga Leumit
- Hapoel Ramat Gan have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Hapoel Ramat Gan have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Hapoel Ramat Gan have scored more than double the goals of Hapoel Afula.
- Hapoel Ramat Gan 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 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 19 |
| 2 | Hapoel Nazareth Illit | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 18 |
| 3 | Hapoel Iksal | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 17 |
| 4 | Sektzia Nes Tziona | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 17 |
| 5 | Hapoel Ramat HaSharon | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 16 |
| 6 | Hapoel Katamon | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| 7 | Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 14 |
| 8 | Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 14 |
| 9 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| 10 | Hapoel Ra'anana | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 12 |
| 11 | Hapoel Acre | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 12 |
| 12 | Hapoel Umm al-Fahm | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 12 |
| 13 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -6 | 8 |
| 14 | Hapoel Afula | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -7 | 6 |
| 15 | Kafr Qasim | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -8 | 6 |
| 16 | Hapoel Kfar Shalem | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -9 | 6 |