Struggling Hapoel Afula will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Hapoel Rishon LeZion in the upcoming league round. It’s 16th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
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 Afula Illit Stadium with only 3 points collected from 6 Liga Leumit games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-3-3. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in eleven attempts.
The fans are hoping that Hapoel Afula will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Liga Leumit game against Hapoel Nazareth Illit (placed 7th). In the match before that, Hapoel Afula hosted Hapoel Acre and drew the game 0-0.
Hapoel Afula have scored 3 goals here in 6 league matches, a depressing statistic. 8 goals have been conceded.
Hapoel Rishon LeZion form and stats
Rock solid. That's the only way to describe the travels of Hapoel Rishon LeZion so far, with 5-0-1 (wins-draws-losses) so far. Those are Liga Leumit statistics. The away team, who have the most clean sheets (7) in Liga Leumit, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 5 wins, 0 draws and only 1 loss in the Liga Leumit. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Hapoel Rishon LeZion are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
Hapoel Rishon LeZion won their last game, 4-0 versus Hapoel Bnei Lod played at home. A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla.
As mentioned above, Hapoel Rishon LeZion was the only team on the pitch versus Hapoel Bnei Lod in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
Hapoel Rishon LeZion are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 6 away games so far. Hapoel Rishon LeZion are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 4 times in 6 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 6 - 2 - 2 (Hapoel Afula wins - draws - Hapoel Rishon LeZion wins). As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 5 had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 
M. Maman
6 goals
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G. Itzhak
4 goals
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E. Dahan
3 goals
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Hapoel Afula missing players
Hapoel Rishon LeZion missing players
| Hapoel Afula | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 17 | 8 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 91% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 64% | 67% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 64% |
| 36% | 17% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 33% | 36% |
| 9% | 17% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 17% | 27% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 17% | 18% |
| 45% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 33% | 36% |
| 9% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 67% | 64% |
| 55% | 50% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.4 | 2.2 | 2.5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7 | 6 | 5.5 |
| 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.5 | 4.2 |
| 1.8 | 2 | 3 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 3 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
- Hapoel Afula have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- 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 Afula have yet to win a game.
- Hapoel Rishon LeZion have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Hapoel Rishon LeZion have scored in all their matches so far.
- Hapoel Rishon LeZion have scored more than double the goals of Hapoel Afula.
- Hapoel Rishon LeZion 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 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 16 | 29 |
| 2 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 25 |
| 3 | Hapoel Katamon | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 25 |
| 4 | Hapoel Umm al-Fahm | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 19 |
| 5 | Kafr Qasim | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 17 |
| 6 | Hapoel Acre | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
| 7 | Hapoel Nazareth Illit | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 15 |
| 8 | Bnei Sakhnin | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 15 |
| 9 | Hapoel Ramat HaSharon | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -1 | 14 |
| 10 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 13 |
| 11 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 13 |
| 12 | Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -5 | 11 |
| 13 | Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -6 | 9 |
| 14 | Hapoel Bnei Lod | 11 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 33 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 17 | -22 | 6 |
| 15 | Hapoel Ashkelon | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -4 | 4 |
| 16 | Hapoel Afula | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 9 | -12 | 3 |