Maccabi Bnei Raina welcome Maccabi Ahi Nazareth as clear favourites: Big preview

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Competition: Israel Liga Leumit
Competition: Fri 25.February
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Green Stadium (4000 seats)

Maccabi Bnei Raina are enjoying their stay in the top league places while Maccabi Ahi Nazareth are more involved in staying out of trouble and relegation. May the best team win!

Insights:
  • Maccabi Bnei Raina have the most clean sheets (12) in Liga Leumit
  • Maccabi Ahi Nazareth have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Maccabi Bnei Raina have less rest than Maccabi Ahi Nazareth in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Liga Leumit game only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Hapoel Umm al-Fahm.

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Maccabi Bnei Raina form and stats

7-3-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Liga Leumit numbers at home for Maccabi Bnei Raina so far this season. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Maccabi after consecutive victories at their own ground.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 309 minutes.

Maccabi Bnei Raina drew their last game, 0-0 away at Hapoel Umm al-Fahm (placed 4th).

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Sektzia Nes Tziona in a game that was won 1-0.

Maccabi has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. Maccabi Bnei Raina are not conceding a lot of goals here at Green Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 13 matches.

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Maccabi Ahi Nazareth form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Maccabi Ahi Nazareth so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 2-5-6 (win-draw-lose). It's a growing despair in Nazareth as they have recorded three consecutive losses.

The attacking players of Maccabi Ahi Nazareth have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 355 minutes.

This fixture can not go any worse than the last one, the home loss versus Hapoel Rishon LeZion with 0-1 on the scoreboard.

A 0-1 defeat away at Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla before that.

The attacking power of Maccabi Ahi Nazareth when travelling is not overwhelming with 11 goals scored from 13 league matches away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Nazareth have conceded 21 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. Maccabi Ahi Nazareth has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

These teams met each other earlier on this season: Maccabi Ahi Nazareth - Maccabi Bnei Raina 0-1. Maccabi Bnei Raina-Maccabi Ahi Nazareth H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Maccabi Bnei Raina one win, Maccabi Ahi Nazareth zero wins, one draw. zero of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

MaccabiJ. da Silva
J. da Silva
10 goals
Maccabi Ahi NazarethA. Abed
A. Abed
10 goals
Maccabi Bnei RainaR. Messika
R. Messika
8 goals

Maccabi Bnei Raina missing players

Maccabi Ahi Nazareth missing players

Maccabi Bnei Raina Maccabi Ahi Nazareth
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
26 13 4 Played P 3 13 26
11 7 3 Won W 0 2 8
9 3 0 Drew D 1 5 8
6 3 1 Lost L 2 6 10
30 17 9 Scored S 4 11 25
21 10 4 Conceded C 9 21 35
85% 85% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 85% 81%
77% 77% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 69% 62%
27% 31% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 54% 50%
4% 8% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 31% 27%
4% 8% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 8% 8%
38% 38% 75% BTTS BTTS 100% 62% 42%
46% 46% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 23% 35%
31% 31% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 31% 42%
 
4 4.2 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.5 4.6
4.2 4.2 5.2 Corners against (avg) C A 6.3 6.5 5.9
1.9 1.8 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.1 2.3
3 2 1 Red cards R C 1 2 5
 
9.5 9.9 13 Shots (avg) S ( 6 7.4 8.3
3.7 3.3 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 2.5 3.2
32% 40% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 33% 30%
 
6.7 6.7 5 Shots against (avg) S A 12 10.1 9.2
2.8 3 2.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 3.8 3.4
Key stats in Liga Leumit this season:
  • Maccabi Ahi Nazareth have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Maccabi Bnei Raina have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Maccabi Bnei Raina have the most clean sheets (12) 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 Kafr Qasim 26 12 8 6 34 24 13 8 3 2 25 15 13 4 5 4 9 9 10 44
2 Maccabi Bnei Raina 26 11 9 6 30 21 13 7 3 3 17 10 13 4 6 3 13 11 9 42
3 Hapoel Kfar Saba 26 10 10 6 37 25 13 5 5 3 18 10 13 5 5 3 19 15 12 40
4 Hapoel Umm al-Fahm 26 9 11 6 32 27 13 7 4 2 22 15 13 2 7 4 10 12 5 38
5 Sektzia Nes Tziona 26 9 10 7 35 27 13 8 4 1 23 8 13 1 6 6 12 19 8 37
6 Agudat Sport Ashdod 26 8 12 6 30 25 13 6 6 1 20 10 13 2 6 5 10 15 5 36
6 Hapoel Iksal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Hapoel Petah Tikva 26 9 9 8 24 25 13 7 4 2 15 10 13 2 5 6 9 15 -1 36
8 Hapoel Rishon LeZion 26 10 5 11 33 35 13 4 3 6 12 17 13 6 2 5 21 18 -2 35
9 Hapoel Acre 26 7 11 8 30 23 13 4 7 2 14 8 13 3 4 6 16 15 7 32
10 Bnei Yehuda 26 8 8 10 30 27 13 4 4 5 15 13 13 4 4 5 15 14 3 32
11 Hapoel Ramat HaSharon 26 7 11 8 30 35 13 3 7 3 15 16 13 4 4 5 15 19 -5 32
12 Hapoel Ra'anana 26 8 8 10 25 31 13 4 4 5 15 19 13 4 4 5 10 12 -6 32
13 Maccabi Ahi Nazareth 26 8 8 10 25 35 13 6 3 4 14 14 13 2 5 6 11 21 -10 32
14 Hapoel Ramat Gan 26 7 10 9 28 35 13 2 6 5 11 18 13 5 4 4 17 17 -7 31
15 Hapoel Afula 26 9 4 13 27 43 13 7 3 3 16 12 13 2 1 10 11 31 -16 31
16 Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla 26 5 8 13 27 39 13 2 5 6 13 17 13 3 3 7 14 22 -12 23