The visiting Maccabi Petah Tikva side should be favourites in this visit to Hapoel Bnei Lod, as the away team holds a 27 point advantage from their 21 league games this season.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Hapoel Bnei Lod form and stats
Hapoel Bnei Lod's results here at Lod Municipal Stadium in the Liga Leumit have been very modest with 3 victories, 1 draw and 6 defeats.
Hapoel Bnei Lod are confident in defense, having played 306 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
Happy days for Hapoel Bnei Lod in their previous game, a Liga Leumit match away at Hapoel Katamon (placed 3rd) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Before that, Hapoel Bnei Lod had a home game versus Hapoel Umm al-Fahm which ended with a victory 2-0.
The victory against Hapoel Katamon came after B. Ben Yair's winning goal. The Hapoel Bnei Lod manager P. Sayag was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 60th minute.
Hapoel Bnei Lod are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 10 games. Hapoel Bnei Lod are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (22 from 10 played).
Maccabi Petah Tikva form and stats
5-4-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Maccabi Petah Tikva, who have the most scored goals (47) in Liga Leumit, in their Liga Leumit matches away.
The supporters enjoyed Maccabi Petah Tikva's previous game versus Hapoel Petah Tikva (placed 10th), a Liga Leumit 4-1 win played at home. Preceding that game was the away victory against Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla with the score of 2-1.
A new game in only four days for Maccabi Petah Tikva, the Liga Leumit home match versus Hapoel Afula. Busy days.
The travelling fans enjoy Maccabi Petah Tikva's attacking play in away games, having scored 15 goals in 10 league matches away. Maccabi Petah Tikva are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 8 times in 10 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Maccabi Petah Tikva - Hapoel Bnei Lod 3-1, played this season. Head-2-head stats last four meetings: one - zero - three (Hapoel Bnei Lod wins - draws - Maccabi Petah Tikva wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Baribo 8 goals |  D. Hugy 8 goals |  L. Cohen 7 goals |
Hapoel Bnei Lod missing players
Maccabi Petah Tikva missing players
| Hapoel Bnei Lod | Maccabi Petah Tikva | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 10 | 21 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 | 12 | 2 | Scored | S | 7 | 15 | 47 |
| 46 | 22 | 7 | Conceded | C | 3 | 8 | 22 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 80% | 90% |
| 71% | 70% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 40% | 62% |
| 48% | 40% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 10% | 43% |
| 10% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 19% |
| 52% | 60% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | 67% |
| 19% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | 33% |
| 29% | 20% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.4 | 3.7 | 2.7 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.1 | 4.8 |
| 4.9 | 4.3 | 3.3 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 173 | 93 | 17 | Total Shots | T S | 42 | 97 | 225 |
| 78 | 42 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 16 | 43 | 106 |
| 27% | 29% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 35% | 44% |
- All of Hapoel Bnei Lod's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the fewest dropped points from leading position (3)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the fewest scored goals in the first half (4)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the most conceded goals (22) at home
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the most conceded goals (46)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the most conceded goals in the first half (23)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the most conceded goals in the second half (23)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the the worst goal difference (-10) at home
- Hapoel Bnei Lod has the the worst goal difference (-25)
- Hapoel Bnei Lod have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Hapoel Bnei Lod haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Maccabi Petah Tikva has the most scored goals (47)
- Maccabi Petah Tikva has the most scored goals in the second half (32)
- Maccabi Petah Tikva has the the best goal difference (+25)
- Maccabi Petah Tikva has the the best goal difference (+7) away
- Maccabi Petah Tikva have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Maccabi Petah Tikva have scored in all their matches so far.
- Maccabi Petah Tikva have scored more than double the goals of Hapoel Bnei Lod.
- Maccabi 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 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 21 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 47 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 25 | 47 |
| 2 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 43 |
| 3 | Hapoel Katamon | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 24 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 35 |
| 4 | Bnei Sakhnin | 21 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 33 |
| 5 | Hapoel Ramat HaSharon | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 30 | 29 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 1 | 32 |
| 6 | Hapoel Umm al-Fahm | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 29 | 27 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 31 |
| 7 | Kafr Qasim | 21 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 29 | 28 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 18 | 1 | 31 |
| 8 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 26 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 30 |
| 9 | Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 26 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 30 |
| 10 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 31 | 31 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 0 | 28 |
| 11 | Hapoel Nazareth Illit | 21 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 13 | -4 | 27 |
| 12 | Hapoel Acre | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 10 | -2 | 23 |
| 13 | Hapoel Bnei Lod | 21 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 21 | 46 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 24 | -25 | 20 |
| 14 | Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | 21 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 22 | -10 | 18 |
| 15 | Hapoel Ashkelon | 21 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 22 | 30 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 14 | -8 | 12 |
| 16 | Hapoel Afula | 21 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 30 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 18 | -16 | 11 |