Hapoel Hadera will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 8 points behind Maccabi Haifa.
Hapoel Hadera form and stats
Overall Ligat ha'Al stats at home this season for Hapoel Hadera are 2-3-0 (wins-draw-losses). The last three games played by Hapoel Hadera, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 212 minutes without scoring a league goal. H. Goldenberg was the last player to find the net. Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 207 minutes.
The home team returns to Afula Illit Stadium after sharing the points with Hapoel Kfar Saba (placed 10th) on their last time out; the Ligat ha'Al game ended 0-0. The points were shared before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Bnei Yehuda.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Hapoel Hadera as they are travelling to their away game against Beitar Jerusalem in the Ligat ha'Al. That match is three days after this one.
A decent goal production from Hapoel Hadera in their home games so far, with 8 goals from 5 league matches. Hapoel Hadera are not conceding a lot of goals here at Afula Illit Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 5 matches.
Maccabi Haifa form and stats
Playing away, Maccabi Haifa, who have the most scored goals (21) in Ligat ha'Al, have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 1 defeat in the Ligat ha'Al this season. Having won their last three away games Maccabi Haifa has no reason to fear anyone.
Maccabi Haifa are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the Ligat ha'Al against Beitar Jerusalem (placed 4th). Preceding that game was the away victory against Hapoel Tel Aviv with the score of 2-1.
After this away game Maccabi Haifa return home for a Ligat ha'Al game against Ashdod. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Maccabi Haifa are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 8 times in 5 away games so far. Maccabi Haifa's manager M. Balbul has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 2 conceded goals. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last five meetings between these two teams are: 2 wins for Hapoel Hadera, 0 draws and 3 wins for Maccabi Haifa. Over 2,5 goals: 4 times; under 2,5 goals: 1 game.Top Goalscorers
  N. Rukavytsya 6 goals |   E. Peretz 4 goals |  Lucio Maranhão 4 goals |
Hapoel Hadera missing players
Maccabi Haifa missing players
| Hapoel Hadera | Maccabi Haifa | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 21 |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 70% | 80% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 80% | 90% |
| 60% | 60% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 60% | 80% |
| 50% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | 60% |
| 30% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 40% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 20% | 40% |
| 50% | 60% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 60% | 50% |
| 40% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | 20% |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7 | 7 | 6.6 |
| 5.9 | 5 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 3 | 2.8 | 3.3 |
| 2.9 | 2.2 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 60 | 34 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 21 | 53 | 135 |
| 31 | 18 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 10 | 27 | 69 |
| 39% | 44% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 30% | 30% |
- Hapoel Hadera have not yet lost a game at home.
- Hapoel Hadera have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Maccabi Haifa has the most points from losing position (9)
- Maccabi Haifa has the most scored goals (21)
- Maccabi Haifa has the most scored goals in the second half (16)
- Maccabi Haifa have created more than twice as many corners as Hapoel Hadera.
- Maccabi Haifa have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Maccabi Haifa have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
| 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 Tel Aviv | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 16 | 26 |
| 2 | Maccabi Haifa | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 23 |
| 3 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 20 |
| 4 | Beitar Jerusalem | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 16 |
| 5 | Hapoel Hadera | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 15 |
| 6 | Hapoel Haifa | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
| 7 | Bnei Yehuda | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | Ashdod | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 11 |
| 9 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 10 |
| 10 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -4 | 9 |
| 11 | Maccabi Netanya | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | -7 | 9 |
| 12 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -7 | 7 |
| 13 | Sektzia Nes Tziona | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -12 | 7 |
| 14 | Hapoel Ra'anana | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -9 | 6 |