Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Ashdod & Hapoel Tel Aviv face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Toto Cup Ligat Al. All the pre-match information is available here!
Ashdod form and stats
Last season, Ashdod's Toto Cup Ligat Al journey ended in the 5th place final.Ashdod's previous game was a Ligat ha'Al match also played at home, ending 3-1 versus Hapoel Hadera. The home side are looking to build on that result. Ahead of that match, Ashdod won a home game hosting Hapoel Hadera (3-1).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Ashdod as they are travelling to their away game against Bnei Yehuda in the Toto Cup Ligat Al. That match is three days after this one.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Ashdod, who have participated in two training matches. Ashdod have won 2 of these, drawn 0 and were beaten in 0 games.
Hapoel Tel Aviv form and stats
They also participated in Toto Cup Ligat Al last season. This ended in the 13th place final.The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on N. Klinger, the Aviv manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
The manager N. Klinger was unhappy after their last game, a Ligat ha'Al match played at their home ground HaMoshava Stadium. Aviv suffered a 0-3 loss to Hapoel Haifa. A 0-3 defeat away at Beitar Jerusalem before that.
The schedule is very tough for Aviv now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Toto Cup Ligat Al game at Beitar Jerusalem is waiting in only three days.
Hapoel Tel Aviv played four friendlies in their break from official games, resulting in 0 victories, 2 draws and 2 defeats. In these four matches Hapoel Tel Aviv scored 0 and conceded 4 goals.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Ashdod four wins, three draws and Hapoel Tel Aviv three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Ashdod missing players
Hapoel Tel Aviv missing players
| Ashdod | Hapoel Tel Aviv | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 7 | 12 | ||
| 43 | 23 | Scored | S | 8 | 22 | ||
| 39 | 19 | Conceded | C | 24 | 38 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 79% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 76% | ||
| 64% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 57% | 56% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 14% | 16% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 4% | ||
| 56% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 14% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 32% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 71% | 56% | ||
| 4.4 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.5 | ||
| 6.4 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4.1 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 257 | 149 | Total Shots | T S | 76 | 167 | ||
| 106 | 62 | Shots on Target | S O | 30 | 66 | ||
| 39% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 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 | Ashdod | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Beitar Jerusalem | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Bnei Yehuda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |