Delightful dogfight as daring Hapoel Haifa duel with determined Beitar Jerusalem

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Competition: Israel Ligat ha'Al
Competition: Sat 29.January
Match begins: 17:50 (UTC)
Venue: Sammy Ofer Stadium (30874 seats)

Carrying a 9 point dominance in the league table, Hapoel Haifa fans hope to see their side earn max points from this fixture against Beitar Jerusalem.

Insights:
  • Hapoel Haifa have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Beitar Jerusalem have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Hapoel Haifa form and stats

Hapoel Haifa have collected 14 points from their Ligat ha'Al home games so far after 4-2-3.

It's back home for Hapoel Haifa, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Hapoel Nazareth Illit away with the result 1-0. Maman found the net in that victory.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 2-2 versus Maccabi Petah Tikva.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Haifa handle that role? We have found eleven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, two draws and four defeats.

Hapoel Haifa are traveling soon after this match as the State Cup match at Bnei Yehuda awaits in three days.

Hapoel Haifa are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 9 games. 10 goals have been conceded. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Beitar Jerusalem form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Beitar Jerusalem so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-6 (win-draw-lose).

Beitar Jerusalem's previous game was their home loss versus Hapoel Tel Aviv (0-2).

Before that, Beitar Jerusalem travelled to Ironi Kiryat Shmona and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.

Jerusalem are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, one draw and four defeats. From a total of five matches.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Beitar Jerusalem's away games in the league this season with only 10 goals from 10 matches. As opposed to that, Beitar Jerusalem have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Beitar Jerusalem - Hapoel Haifa 2-1 was the scoreline in these squads' last H2H game, played this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - five - three (Hapoel Haifa wins - draws - Beitar Jerusalem wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

HaifaA. Turgeman
A. Turgeman
9 goals
Hapoel HaifaA. Ožbolt
A. Ožbolt
7 goals
Beitar JerusalemY. Shua
Y. Shua
5 goals

Hapoel Haifa missing players

Beitar Jerusalem missing players

Hapoel Haifa Beitar Jerusalem
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 2 Played P 3 10 19
7 4 1 Won W 0 2 4
5 2 1 Drew D 2 2 5
7 3 0 Lost L 1 6 10
25 12 5 Scored S 2 10 18
26 10 3 Conceded C 4 13 24
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 90% 89%
74% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 70% 79%
53% 56% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 42%
37% 33% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 20% 11%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
53% 44% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 30% 37%
26% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 30% 26%
26% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 50% 47%
 
4.8 5 7 Corners for (avg) C F 1.7 2.5 2.9
5.2 5.7 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 8 5.8 5.1
1.9 1.9 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 2.6 2.9
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
8.8 9.6 11 Shots (avg) S ( 3.7 4.8 6.3
3.8 3.7 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.3 2.1 2.5
35% 36% 45% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 48% 38%
 
9.5 9.4 10 Shots against (avg) S A 9 11.1 10.5
4.1 4.2 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 4.9 4.8
Key stats in Ligat ha'Al this season:
  • Beitar Jerusalem have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Beitar Jerusalem have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Hapoel Haifa have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 Haifa 19 14 3 2 49 15 10 8 1 1 23 8 9 6 2 1 26 7 34 45
2 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 19 13 4 2 31 13 10 7 2 1 20 8 9 6 2 1 11 5 18 43
3 Hapoel Tel Aviv 19 9 6 4 30 21 9 4 2 3 11 13 10 5 4 1 19 8 9 33
4 Maccabi Tel Aviv 19 9 5 5 31 26 10 4 5 1 13 9 9 5 0 4 18 17 5 32
5 Hapoel Haifa 19 7 5 7 25 26 9 4 2 3 12 10 10 3 3 4 13 16 -1 26
6 Ashdod 19 8 2 9 22 23 9 3 1 5 11 14 10 5 1 4 11 9 -1 26
7 Hapoel Hadera 19 6 8 5 17 20 9 3 4 2 8 8 10 3 4 3 9 12 -3 26
8 Maccabi Netanya 19 6 7 6 21 21 10 4 3 3 11 10 9 2 4 3 10 11 0 25
9 Ironi Kiryat Shmona 19 7 4 8 24 26 9 3 2 4 10 13 10 4 2 4 14 13 -2 25
10 Bnei Sakhnin 19 7 4 8 20 27 10 4 2 4 11 17 9 3 2 4 9 10 -7 25
11 Beitar Jerusalem 19 4 5 10 18 24 9 2 3 4 8 11 10 2 2 6 10 13 -6 17
12 Hapoel Katamon 19 3 7 9 14 27 10 3 3 4 10 15 9 0 4 5 4 12 -13 16
13 Hapoel Nazareth Illit 19 3 5 11 16 36 9 2 2 5 8 16 10 1 3 6 8 20 -20 14
14 Maccabi Petah Tikva 19 2 5 12 14 27 10 2 3 5 10 14 9 0 2 7 4 13 -13 11