With the nervous opening game out of the way it’s time for the second Liga Leumit game of the season. Hapoel Katamon look forward to welcoming Kafr Qasim in front of their home support.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Hapoel Katamon form and stats
An away draw last time out for Katamon, facing Hapoel Iksal in a game that ended 3-3. Before that, Katamon drew at home versus Bnei Sakhnin.
Opportunity lost for Hapoel Katamon in the Hapoel Iksal match as a lead 3-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
There will be little rest for Hapoel Katamon after this match as they are travelling to Hapoel Kfar Shalem for a Liga Leumit game in only three days.
Last season, Hapoel Katamon's league statistics were 14 wins, 7 draws and 9 losses, resulting in a 3rd position in the Liga Leumit. Over these 30 matches they scored 37 goals and conceded 30. Playing at home last season Hapoel Katamon managed 5-5-5 (win-draw-lost) with 16 goals and 17 conceded.
Kafr Qasim form and stats
Kafr Qasim failed to get anything from their last game, a Liga Leumit home match vs Hapoel Ramat HaSharon (placed 1st) that ended with defeat 0-3. A 1-2 loss hosting Maccabi Petah Tikva before that.
Let's have a look at how Kafr Qasim performed last season in the Liga Leumit: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 12 victories, 8 draws and 10 defeats. In total they scored 41 and conceded 40 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 5 and lost 4 with 27/22 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
Katamon-Kafr Qasim H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Hapoel Katamon one win, Kafr Qasim two wins, zero draws. two of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Hapoel Katamon missing players
Kafr Qasim missing players
| Hapoel Katamon | Kafr Qasim | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Hapoel Katamon | Last season | Kafr Qasim | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 37 | 19 | Played | P | 19 | 37 | ||
| 16 | 6 | Won | W | 8 | 16 | ||
| 11 | 8 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 6 | 13 | ||
| 42 | 18 | Scored | S | 33 | 53 | ||
| 33 | 18 | Conceded | C | 27 | 48 | ||
| 86% | 84% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 95% | 92% | ||
| 59% | 58% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 68% | 68% | ||
| 32% | 26% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 63% | 57% | ||
| 22% | 16% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 37% | 27% | ||
| 3% | 5% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 26% | 16% | ||
| 38% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 68% | 51% | ||
| 43% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 11% | 24% | ||
| 32% | 32% | Failed to Score | F T | 26% | 32% | ||
| 4.8 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 4.7 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.9 | 4.1 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 2.3 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 303 | 148 | Total Shots | T S | 182 | 346 | ||
| 133 | 61 | Shots on Target | S O | 82 | 151 | ||
| 31% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 34% | ||
| 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 HaSharon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Hapoel Nazareth Illit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Hapoel Umm al-Fahm | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Hapoel Iksal | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Hapoel Katamon | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Hapoel Acre | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Hapoel Afula | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Sektzia Nes Tziona | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 15 | Hapoel Ra'anana | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 16 | Kafr Qasim | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -5 | 71 |
| 2 | Bnei Sakhnin | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 67 |
| 3 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 60 |
| 4 | Hapoel Katamon | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 59 |
| 5 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -8 | 58 |
| 6 | Kafr Qasim | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 56 |
| 7 | Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -3 | 52 |
| 8 | Hapoel Ramat HaSharon | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -9 | 49 |