Levita Stadium: Hapoel Kfar Saba vs Hapoel Tel Aviv Ligat ha'Al preview

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Competition: Israel Ligat ha'Al
Date: Sat 25.January
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Levita Stadium (5800 seats)

Hapoel Kfar Saba hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 17 points and a 12th position in the Ligat ha'Al table. Visiting Hapoel Tel Aviv holds 5th place with 26 pts.

Hapoel Kfar Saba and Hapoel Tel Aviv should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Hapoel Kfar Saba form and stats

With 0 Ligat ha'Al wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, Hapoel Kfar Saba are certainly not brimming with confidence. Hapoel Kfar Saba are slowly digging their own grave here at Levita Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home game in nine attempts. The last victory here came in the Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla match.

Hapoel Kfar Saba's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Bnei Yehuda (placed 7th). In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Sektzia Nes Tziona.

The lack of attacking qualities in Hapoel Kfar Saba means that they have only scored 2 goals in 9 league home games, less than half a goal per match. Hapoel Kfar Saba's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 13 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Hapoel Tel Aviv form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Ligat ha'Al travels is 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats. The fact that Hapoel Tel Aviv have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Hapoel Tel Aviv are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.

The supporters enjoyed Hapoel Tel Aviv's previous game versus Hapoel Ra'anana (placed 14th), a Ligat ha'Al 3-1 win played at home. Preceding that game was the away State Cup victory against Bnei Sakhnin with the score of 3-0.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Hapoel Tel Aviv as they have only managed to score 8 times from 9 away games in the league. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Hapoel Tel Aviv have conceded 15 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Hapoel Tel Aviv - Hapoel Kfar Saba 2-1 entered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 3 Hapoel Kfar Saba victories, 2 draws and 5 Hapoel Tel Aviv wins. 5 of these games ended with three goals or more, 5 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Hapoel Tel AvivO. Altman
O. Altman
5 goals
Hapoel Kfar SabaO. Fadida
O. Fadida
3 goals
Hapoel Kfar SabaB. Traore
B. Traore
3 goals

Hapoel Kfar Saba missing players

Hapoel Tel Aviv missing players

Hapoel Kfar Saba Hapoel Tel Aviv
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 9 4 Played P 4 9 19
4 0 0 Won W 2 4 7
5 2 1 Drew D 1 1 5
10 7 3 Lost L 1 4 7
13 2 1 Scored S 5 8 17
24 13 4 Conceded C 4 15 25
89% 89% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
53% 44% 25% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 63%
37% 33% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 67% 53%
16% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 22% 16%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
32% 22% 25% BTTS BTTS 50% 33% 42%
26% 11% 25% Clean Sheets C S 50% 33% 32%
53% 78% 75% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 37%
 
3.4 3.2 3.5 Corners For (avg) C F 5.2 4.6 5.3
5.2 5.7 6 Corners Against (avg) C A 6.5 5.1 4.6
2.4 2.3 2.5 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2.3 2.1
4 2 0 Red Cards R C 0 1 1
 
153 73 33 Total Shots T S 38 89 181
63 31 17 Shots on Target S O 17 35 65
21% 6% 6% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 23% 26%
Key stats in Ligat ha'Al this season:
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba has the fewest points (2) at home
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba has the fewest scored goals (2) at home
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Hapoel Kfar Saba have yet to win a game at home.
  • Hapoel Tel Aviv have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Hapoel Tel Aviv have scored at least twice as many goals away as Hapoel Kfar Saba have scored home.
  • Hapoel Tel Aviv haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 19 14 5 0 35 4 9 4 5 0 11 1 10 10 0 0 24 3 31 47
2 Maccabi Haifa 19 13 4 2 43 15 9 6 2 1 26 12 10 7 2 1 17 3 28 43
3 Beitar Jerusalem 19 11 4 4 31 17 8 4 2 2 10 9 11 7 2 2 21 8 14 37
4 Hapoel Be'er Sheva 19 10 2 7 24 16 10 7 0 3 15 7 9 3 2 4 9 9 8 32
5 Hapoel Tel Aviv 19 7 5 7 17 25 10 3 4 3 9 10 9 4 1 4 8 15 -8 26
6 Hapoel Hadera 19 6 7 6 18 20 10 3 3 4 10 11 9 3 4 2 8 9 -2 25
7 Bnei Yehuda 19 6 6 7 17 20 9 2 2 5 7 12 10 4 4 2 10 8 -3 24
8 Hapoel Haifa 19 7 3 9 18 26 10 4 1 5 12 15 9 3 2 4 6 11 -8 24
9 Maccabi Netanya 19 6 4 9 19 26 9 4 1 4 13 14 10 2 3 5 6 12 -7 22
10 Ashdod 19 4 9 6 23 25 10 3 5 2 13 11 9 1 4 4 10 14 -2 21
11 Ironi Kiryat Shmona 19 5 2 12 19 26 10 4 0 6 9 12 9 1 2 6 10 14 -7 17
12 Hapoel Kfar Saba 19 4 5 10 13 24 9 0 2 7 2 13 10 4 3 3 11 11 -11 17
13 Sektzia Nes Tziona 19 3 6 10 13 31 10 2 1 7 6 17 9 1 5 3 7 14 -18 15
14 Hapoel Ra'anana 19 2 8 9 15 30 10 2 7 1 9 9 9 0 1 8 6 21 -15 14