National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Sektzia Nes Tziona or Hapoel Haifa that keep their silverware dream alive.
Sektzia Nes Tziona form and stats
Sektzia Nes Tziona's struggle is real here at HaMoshava Stadium with only 5 points collected from 6 Ligat ha'Al games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-3.
Sektzia drew their last game, 0-0 away at Hapoel Hadera.
In the match before that, Sektzia Nes Tziona hosted Maccabi Bnei Raina and drew the Ligat ha'Al game 3-3.Sektzia Nes Tziona has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Sektzia with 14 goals conceded in these matches.
Hapoel Haifa form and stats
They also participated in Toto Cup Ligat Al last season. This ended in the semi-finals.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Hapoel Haifa so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 0-5-2 (win-draw-lose).
The attacking players of Hapoel Haifa have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 222 minutes.
Hapoel Haifa lost away at Maccabi Tel Aviv (0-1) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Late heartbreak for Hapoel Haifa in the Maccabi Tel Aviv match, as the deciding 0-1 goal came deep into overtime.
The game before that, in the Ligat ha'Al, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Maccabi Haifa.Many goals are not expected from the visiting Haifa as they have only managed to score 5 times from 7 away games in the league. 10 goals have been conceded by Hapoel Haifa in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last three meetings: one - zero - two (Sektzia Nes Tziona wins - draws - Hapoel Haifa wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  L. Kutalia 4 goals | A. Buzaglo 3 goals |   A. Turgeman 3 goals |
Sektzia Nes Tziona missing players
Hapoel Haifa missing players
| Sektzia Nes Tziona | Hapoel Haifa | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 7 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Lost | L | 6 | 13 | ||
| 31 | 21 | Scored | S | 7 | 14 | ||
| 36 | 22 | Conceded | C | 20 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 79% | 84% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 57% | 56% | ||
| 40% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 29% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 20% | ||
| 12% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 56% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 32% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 57% | 52% | ||
| 3.9 | 3.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 4.2 | ||
| 5.4 | 5.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.2 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.3 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 6 | ||
| 9.1 | 9.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 7.8 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 3.2 | ||
| 36% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 15% | 17% | ||
| 12.6 | 11.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.6 | 11.8 | ||
| 4.6 | 3.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 4.5 | ||
| 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 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 16 | 33 |
| 2 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 24 | 29 |
| 3 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 19 | 29 |
| 4 | Hapoel Katamon | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 23 |
| 5 | Hapoel Hadera | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | -3 | 18 |
| 6 | Ashdod | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | -1 | 17 |
| 7 | Bnei Sakhnin | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -3 | 15 |
| 8 | Maccabi Netanya | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | -7 | 15 |
| 9 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -9 | 13 |
| 10 | Maccabi Bnei Raina | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 15 | -10 | 13 |
| 11 | Beitar Jerusalem | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -11 | 13 |
| 12 | Hapoel Haifa | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 12 |
| 13 | Sektzia Nes Tziona | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -10 | 11 |
| 14 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -7 | 9 |
