Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Beer Sheva are expected to provide us with a hot battle tonight (Saturday, 20:00) at Bloomfield Stadium. After the painful loss of the Yellows to Maccabi Haifa and when the Southerners from the Negev are in the midst of the championship battle, the two teams can not afford to lose points in the spicy encounter.
Despite the 0: 2 victory of Roni Levy’s trainees earlier this season in September, control of the direct meetings in recent years belongs to Maccabi Tel Aviv, which has won five of the last eight games between the parties and surrendered only this season. The difference between the teams in the table is 15 points, but there are data in which the Yellows are better.
The trophy holder scored 1.56 goals and averaged 1.44 per game, while at BS the balance is 1.81 right goals and 0.62 mandatory goals. Maccabi Tel Aviv holds the ball more on average with 56.09% compared to 51.48%, and also records more scoring attempts per game (14.81 compared to 13). In Hapoel B’Shlosha, it is better with 7.17 compared to 9.48 valley attempts per goal.
Conspicuous group data
# 62% of BS’s goals this season were scored from a standstill (18 out of 29). Five came from corners, eight from free kicks and another five from penalties.
# Only Maccabi Haifa and BS won more than Maccabi Tel Aviv, but only Nof Hagalil and Bnei Sakhnin absorbed more from it.
# 61.5% of the Reds’ scoring attempts came from an extension, compared to only 54% of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
# BS is the team that squeezed the most offenses this season (13.8 per game) and the most penalties (six).
The most prominent players in the WC:
Leading conqueror: Nikita Rokavica (8).
Leading cook: Ramzi Spori (6).
Valley Attempts: Spori (32).
Accurate key dedication: Spori (18).
Dribbles: Spori (44).
Successful tackles: Mariano Briero (70).
The most prominent players in Maccabi Tel Aviv:
Leading Conqueror: Stifa Burglary (6).
Leading chef: Gabi Kanikovsky (3).
Valley Attempts: Brandley Quass and Dan Bitton (26).
Accurate key dedication: Knikowski (11).
Dribbles: Kwas (30).
Successful tackles: Dan Glazer (30).
Notable personal data:
# 75.6% of Enrique Sborrit’s tackles this season are successful.
# Rokavica (8) and Spori (7) scored 51.7% of BS goals this season, while thanks to Spori’s six more cooks, he is directly involved in 44.8% of his team’s goals.
# Matan Balteksa has won 80% of his air battles this season.
# Mariano Briero has made the most successful tackles this season in the league, with 70 such.
interesting facts
# BS’s last away win over Maccabi Tel Aviv was on April 9, 2018, 0: 1 from a goal by Hanan Maman.
# Maccabi Tel Aviv’s distance from the summit after 16 rounds is 15 points. The last time the Yellows were so far from the top at this stage of the season was in 2010, a distance of 16 points from Maccabi Haifa.
# Hapoel BS has won in each of the last seven rounds. This is its longest streak since February – April 2017, when it won ten consecutive games.
# Maccabi Tel Aviv has won only one home game out of its last five in the league (0: 3 against Hadera). She ended in a draw three times and lost once (2: 0 to CBS Ashdod).
The Reds from the Negev have won this season in 15 of their 16 games. The only time they were stopped was against Sakhnin 0-0 in the third round.
The Yellows have won 14 of their 16 games, but have also conceded 14 of their 16 games.
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