National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Hapoel Rishon LeZion or Hapoel Herzliya that keep their silverware dream alive.
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.
Hapoel Rishon LeZion form and stats
Rishon participated in State Cup the last season, where they reached the 8th round.3-0-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Liga Leumit numbers at home for Hapoel Rishon LeZion so far this season.
Hapoel Rishon LeZion's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-3 versus Hapoel Acre.
Before that, Hapoel Rishon LeZion played out a Liga Leumit draw 0-0 when visiting Hapoel Ramat HaSharon.The match schedule is unforgiving for Rishon as they have a new game in only three days, a Liga Leumit match thankfully also at home. Hapoel Ramat Gan are visiting.
The Hapoel Rishon LeZion fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 7 in 5 matches. From these home matches, Rishon have conceded only 4 goals.
Hapoel Herzliya form and stats
Last season their State Cup adventure ended in the 1st round.It's the second away game in a row for Hapoel Herzliya, but there's smiles all around after the 3-0 victory versus Ironi Modi'in last time out. Which player has beaten the opponent goalie four games in a row for the away team? The answer is Germanov and that is solid stuff!
A 1-1 draw at Maccabi Yavne's stadium before that.After this away game Hapoel Herzliya return home for a Liga Alef - Süd game against Shimshon Kafr Qasim. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Head 2 Head
As for the last two games between these two teams, there's one Hapoel Rishon LeZion victory, zero draws and one Hapoel Herzliya win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Bamba 4 goals | A. Conteh 2 goals | I. Tamam 2 goals |
Hapoel Rishon LeZion missing players
Hapoel Herzliya missing players
| Hapoel Rishon LeZion | Hapoel Herzliya | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Won | W | 6 | 13 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Drew | D | 5 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | ||
| 27 | 13 | Scored | S | 22 | 47 | ||
| 25 | 12 | Conceded | C | 18 | 29 | ||
| 88% | 86% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 84% | ||
| 32% | 21% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 21% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 43% | 40% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 12% | ||
| 48% | 29% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 28% | ||
| 36% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 16% | ||
| 5.1 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 4.9 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.2 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9.4 | 8.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.2 | 11.1 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 5.2 | ||
| 32% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 52% | 32% | ||
| 7.2 | 6.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5.5 | 5.7 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.2 | ||
| 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 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 22 |
| 2 | Hapoel Acre | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | Maccabi Kabilio Jaffa | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 17 |
| 4 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 16 |
| 5 | Hapoel Afula | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 14 |
| 6 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 7 | Ironi Tiberias | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 8 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 12 |
| 9 | Hapoel Ramat HaSharon | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| 10 | Hapoel Umm al-Fahm | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 10 |
| 11 | Bnei Yehuda | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 10 |
| 12 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -7 | 10 |
| 13 | Hapoel Nof HaGalil | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -8 | 8 |
| 14 | Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 7 |
| 15 | Kafr Qasim | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -7 | 7 |
| 16 | Agudat Sport Ashdod | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -8 | -4 |
