Liga Leumit match prediction: Little separates Maccabi Ahi Nazareth and Kafr Qasim in quality

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Competition: Israel Liga Leumit
Competition: Fri 04.November
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ilut Stadium (4000 seats)

The glass has been half empty for Maccabi Ahi Nazareth so far, and that also applies to Kafr Qasim. These brave battlers would do anything for some important points here.

Insights:
  • Maccabi Ahi Nazareth have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Liga Leumit
  • Kafr Qasim have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.

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.

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Maccabi Ahi Nazareth form and stats

The total Liga Leumit stats playing at home this season for Maccabi Ahi Nazareth are 3-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).

The regulars hope that Maccabi Ahi Nazareth will fight back in this game, putting things right after the 1-5 away loss in the Toto Cup Ligat Leumit fixture against Hapoel Petah Tikva.

Prior to that, an away loss at Hapoel Umm al-Fahm in the Liga Leumit.

It should be noted that a glance at the 11 latest league matches shows that 9 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Nazareth are not conceding a lot of goals here at Ilut Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches. Maccabi Ahi Nazareth has at home met teams with this table position (low), two times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.

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Kafr Qasim form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Kafr Qasim so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-4 (win-draw-lose).

Kafr Qasim delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Hapoel Nof HaGalil (placed 14th) in their previous game. Qasim's last match (vs Hapoel Nof HaGalil) ended in drama as all points looked lost at the score 0-2. They did not give up, fought back and in the end a courageous finish rescued a draw after 90 minutes thanks to a 90th minute equalizer by Mazor.

A 0-2 defeat away at Ironi Tiberias before that.

Kafr Qasim struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 10 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Kafr Qasim have avoided defeat in the last 9 games (6-3-0) versus Nazareth.

Top Goalscorers

Kafr QasimA. Hassan
A. Hassan
3 goals
Maccabi Ahi NazarethN. Bazea
N. Bazea
2 goals
Kafr QasimS. Mazor
S. Mazor
2 goals

Maccabi Ahi Nazareth missing players

Kafr Qasim missing players

Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Kafr Qasim
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
11 6 2 Played P 1 6 11
3 3 0 Won W 1 1 1
1 1 1 Drew D 0 1 5
7 2 1 Lost L 0 4 5
8 6 0 Scored S 3 6 11
15 4 1 Conceded C 1 10 20
91% 83% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 82%
73% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 73%
27% 17% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 33% 45%
9% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 33% 45%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 27%
18% 17% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 45%
27% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 18%
64% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 55%
 
5.1 5.3 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 7 4.3 5.5
5.2 5.3 5 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3.5 3.4
2.9 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5 3.2 2.9
2 1 1 Red cards R C 1 3 3
 
10.5 11.5 12 Shots (avg) S ( 10 7 8.8
4.5 5.3 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 2.2 2.2
16% 19% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 46% 46%
 
9.5 9.2 8 Shots against (avg) S A 12 7.8 7.1
4.2 4 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 3.7 3.3
Key stats in Liga Leumit this season:
  • Kafr Qasim have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Kafr Qasim have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Kafr Qasim haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Maccabi Ahi Nazareth have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Liga Leumit
  • Maccabi Ahi Nazareth have the most conceded goals in the first half (10) in Liga Leumit

  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 8 2 1 24 6 5 3 2 0 9 3 6 5 0 1 15 3 18 26
2 Maccabi Kabilio Jaffa 11 6 3 2 17 11 5 4 0 1 9 5 6 2 3 1 8 6 6 21
3 Hapoel Acre 11 6 3 2 16 11 5 3 1 1 7 4 6 3 2 1 9 7 5 21
4 Hapoel Petah Tikva 11 5 2 4 16 13 6 3 1 2 9 5 5 2 1 2 7 8 3 17
5 Hapoel Kfar Saba 11 5 2 4 13 13 5 2 1 2 6 7 6 3 1 2 7 6 0 17
6 Hapoel Umm al-Fahm 11 4 4 3 15 10 6 3 3 0 11 4 5 1 1 3 4 6 5 16
7 Ironi Tiberias 11 4 4 3 15 11 5 3 2 0 10 2 6 1 2 3 5 9 4 16
8 Hapoel Rishon LeZion 11 4 3 4 14 11 6 3 0 3 7 5 5 1 3 1 7 6 3 15
9 Hapoel Afula 11 4 3 4 13 14 6 4 2 0 8 1 5 0 1 4 5 13 -1 15
10 Hapoel Ramat HaSharon 11 3 5 3 8 7 6 2 2 2 5 4 5 1 3 1 3 3 1 14
11 Hapoel Ramat Gan 11 4 2 5 9 15 6 1 2 3 6 11 5 3 0 2 3 4 -6 14
12 Bnei Yehuda 11 3 4 4 9 10 5 2 2 1 6 4 6 1 2 3 3 6 -1 13
13 Maccabi Ahi Nazareth 11 3 1 7 8 15 6 3 1 2 6 4 5 0 0 5 2 11 -7 10
14 Hapoel Nof HaGalil 11 2 3 6 11 21 6 2 0 4 7 14 5 0 3 2 4 7 -10 9
15 Kafr Qasim 11 1 5 5 11 20 5 0 4 1 5 10 6 1 1 4 6 10 -9 8
16 Agudat Sport Ashdod 11 2 2 7 7 18 5 2 1 2 6 6 6 0 1 5 1 12 -11 -4