Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Maccabi Haifa & Beitar Jerusalem face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the State Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
Maccabi Haifa form and stats
Last season, Maccabi Haifa's State Cup journey ended in the semi-finals.8-0-1 is the performance here at Sammy Ofer Stadium so far in the Ligat ha'Al, giving Maccabi Haifa a total of 24 from their 9 games here. Outstanding results!
Maccabi enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Maccabi Petah Tikva's place. The match ended 4-0 with Haziza, David, Levi and Sahar scoring. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Maccabi played a great game against Maccabi Petah Tikva and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Previous to that game, a Ligat ha'Al home match hosting Maccabi Tel Aviv in a game that was won 3-2.With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (22 in 9 games), Maccabi's attacking play is working. Maccabi are not conceding a lot of goals here at Sammy Ofer Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 9 matches.
Beitar Jerusalem form and stats
Beitar Jerusalem was sent out of State Cup in the 8th finals last season.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Beitar Jerusalem so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-6 (win-draw-lose).
Jerusalem have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 225 minutes ago. Boakye was the goal scorer.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Ligat ha'Al home defeat versus Ashdod with 0-2 on the scoreboard.
Ahead of that match was the Ligat ha'Al away draw versus Maccabi Netanya that ended 0-0.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Jerusalem manager Mizrahi as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Ironi Kiryat Shmona.
The attacking power of Jerusalem when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 9 league matches away. As opposed to that, Jerusalem have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Maccabi Haifa wins - draws - Beitar Jerusalem wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  O. Atzili 11 goals | D. David 10 goals | D. Haziza 7 goals |
Maccabi Haifa missing players
Beitar Jerusalem missing players
| Maccabi Haifa | Beitar Jerusalem | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 10 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 8 | 13 | ||
| 51 | 26 | Scored | S | 8 | 19 | ||
| 21 | 9 | Conceded | C | 14 | 28 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 76% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 54% | 68% | ||
| 60% | 43% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 31% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 21% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 8% | 4% | ||
| 16% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 44% | 43% | BTTS | BTTS | 15% | 32% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 69% | 56% | ||
| 5.9 | 6.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.2 | 3.7 | ||
| 3.6 | 2.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.3 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.5 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 11.6 | 12.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.6 | 7.6 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.2 | 2.8 | ||
| 40% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 27% | ||
| 8.9 | 8.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 9.7 | ||
| 3.4 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.3 | ||
| 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 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 46 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 33 | 41 |
| 2 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 18 | 40 |
| 3 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 26 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 29 |
| 4 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 3 | 28 |
| 5 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 24 |
| 6 | Ashdod | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | -1 | 23 |
| 7 | Hapoel Haifa | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | -2 | 22 |
| 8 | Bnei Sakhnin | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -6 | 22 |
| 9 | Maccabi Netanya | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 21 |
| 10 | Hapoel Hadera | 17 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -6 | 20 |
| 11 | Beitar Jerusalem | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 11 | -4 | 16 |
| 12 | Hapoel Katamon | 16 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -10 | 15 |
| 13 | Hapoel Nazareth Illit | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 33 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 18 | -19 | 13 |
| 14 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 17 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 11 | -12 | 10 |
