Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Sektzia Nes Tziona & Bnei Yehuda 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.
Sektzia Nes Tziona form and stats
Last season their State Cup adventure ended in the 4th round.3-1-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Liga Leumit numbers at home for Sektzia Nes Tziona so far this season. Sektzia are on a three game winning streak in their home games.
Sektzia manager N. Berckovich and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Hapoel Rishon LeZion in the Liga Leumit.
Previous to that game, a Liga Leumit home match hosting Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla in a game that was won 2-1.The match schedule is unforgiving for Sektzia as they have a new game in only three days, a Liga Leumit match thankfully also at home. Maccabi Bnei Raina are visiting.
A decent goal production from Sektzia Nes Tziona in their home games so far, with 6 goals from 4 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Sektzia have only let in 2 goals at home.
Bnei Yehuda form and stats
Bnei Yehuda's mission in State Cup last season failed in the 4th round.The visitors are W1-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Liga Leumit.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Yehuda goalkeeper Omer Ya'akov Niron is eager to challenge this, with his 181 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Impressive finishing from E. Atar (2), A. Cohen, R. Ben Shimon and A. Zaneti secured the home win 5-0 against Hapoel Afula in their previous game. As you can tell from the results above, Bnei Yehuda was very dominant against Hapoel Afula, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-0 (!) with E. Atar (2), A. Cohen, R. Ben Shimon and A. Zaneti providing the goals.
Ahead of that match was the Liga Leumit away draw versus Agudat Sport Ashdod that ended 0-0.Yehuda have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 5 league away games 6 goals have been scored. 6 goals have been conceded by Yehuda in these games.
Head 2 Head
Sektzia Nes Tziona-Bnei Yehuda H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Sektzia Nes Tziona one win, Bnei Yehuda one win, one draw. one of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  D. Biton 8 goals |   E. Atar 6 goals |  A. Buzaglo 3 goals |
Sektzia Nes Tziona missing players
Bnei Yehuda missing players
| Sektzia Nes Tziona | Bnei Yehuda | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Drew | D | 6 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 11 | ||
| 32 | 15 | Scored | S | 17 | 31 | ||
| 25 | 12 | Conceded | C | 19 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 84% | ||
| 80% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 72% | ||
| 32% | 21% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 52% | ||
| 12% | 7% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 28% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 16% | ||
| 44% | 43% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 43% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 32% | ||
| 4.6 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.6 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.6 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 9.1 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 9.1 | ||
| 3 | 2.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.8 | ||
| 43% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 33% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 19 |
| 2 | Hapoel Umm al-Fahm | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 17 |
| 3 | Kafr Qasim | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | Sektzia Nes Tziona | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 15 |
| 5 | Maccabi Bnei Raina | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 14 |
| 6 | Agudat Sport Ashdod | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | Hapoel Iksal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Hapoel Rishon LeZion | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | Hapoel Ramat HaSharon | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
| 9 | Hapoel Acre | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 12 |
| 10 | Hapoel Petah Tikva | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 10 |
| 11 | Maccabi Ahi Nazareth | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 10 |
| 12 | Bnei Yehuda | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| 13 | Hapoel Ramat Gan | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 | -7 | 7 |
| 14 | Beitar Tel Aviv Ramla | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -8 | 6 |
| 15 | Hapoel Afula | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -9 | 6 |
| 16 | Hapoel Ra'anana | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -7 | 5 |