After the first games for these two it's Maccabi Ahi Nazareth - Agudat Sport Ashdod 1-1 in points. Who will triumph in this second Liga Leumit match of the season?
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.
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth form and stats
In the previous season, Maccabi Ahi Nazareth's league results were 9 wins, 9 draws and 12 losses, leading to 13th position in the Liga Leumit. Over these 30 matches they scored 28 goals and let in 39. Playing as the home side in the former season Maccabi Ahi Nazareth produced 6-4-5 (win-draw-lost) with 15 goals and 16 conceded. A Liga Leumit draw at home so far for Maccabi Ahi Nazareth. Last season their home statistics were 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat from 3 matches.
The spoils were shared in Nazareth's previous game, also at home. Visiting Agudat Sport Ashdod (placed 8th) travelled back with a draw after a 0-0 scoreline.
This is expected to be a close game, with Maccabi Ahi Nazareth perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Maccabi Ahi Nazareth as a small favourite), we find 17 games. Maccabi Ahi Nazareth has won 9 of these, drawn 2 and lost 6.
Early season league goal statistics from Maccabi Ahi Nazareth's 1 home game: 0 goals, 0 conceded.
Agudat Sport Ashdod form and stats
Let's have a look at how Agudat Sport Ashdod performed last season in the Liga Leumit: They landed a 5th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 14 draws and 6 defeats. In total they scored 36 and conceded 29 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 7 and lost 5 with 13/17 goals scored/conceded. One match played away so far in the Liga Leumit for Agudat Sport Ashdod and it was a tie. Last season the statistics for their away games were 0 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses from 4 games.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Maccabi Ahi Nazareth (placed 9th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 0-0.
aweayteam Hara magic won. As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Agudat Sport Ashdod in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Agudat Sport Ashdod, 6 draws and 5 defeats.
Agudat Sport Ashdod have the goal stats of 0-0 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Here's the end result when the sides met earlier this season; Nazareth - Agudat Sport Ashdod 0-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Maccabi Ahi Nazareth zero wins, one draw and Agudat Sport Ashdod two victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth missing players
Agudat Sport Ashdod missing players
| Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | Agudat Sport Ashdod | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 13 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | Last season | Agudat Sport Ashdod | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 37 | 18 | Played | P | 19 | 37 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 3 | 13 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Drew | D | 9 | 16 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Lost | L | 7 | 8 | ||
| 41 | 23 | Scored | S | 15 | 48 | ||
| 45 | 19 | Conceded | C | 24 | 41 | ||
| 81% | 78% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 84% | 86% | ||
| 62% | 61% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 76% | ||
| 51% | 56% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 32% | 43% | ||
| 24% | 22% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 11% | 22% | ||
| 11% | 11% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 5% | ||
| 46% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 57% | ||
| 38% | 44% | Clean Sheets | C S | 26% | 32% | ||
| 35% | 44% | Failed to Score | F T | 32% | 24% | ||
| 4.4 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 3.8 | ||
| 5.6 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4.4 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.4 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 8.8 | 9.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.1 | 8.4 | ||
| 3.6 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.7 | ||
| 31% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 35% | ||
| 9.7 | 8.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.1 | 8 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.3 | ||
| 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 Kabilio Jaffa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Hapoel Afula | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Hapoel Ramat HaSharon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Ironi Tiberias | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Agudat Sport Ashdod | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Bnei Yehuda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Hapoel Acre | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Kafr Qasim | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Hapoel Umm al-Fahm | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 15 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
| 16 | Hapoel Nof HaGalil | 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 Ahi Nazareth | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 50 |
| 2 | Hapoel Afula | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 47 |
| 3 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 46 |
| 4 | Hapoel Acre | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 46 |
| 5 | Hapoel Ramat HaSharon | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 45 |
| 6 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -3 | 43 |
| 7 | Hapoel Ra'anana | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 42 |
| 8 | Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 33 |
