Maccabi Haifa will host Hapoel Beer Sheva tonight (Saturday, 20:00) for a fateful match for the championship. Barak Becher’s greens know that a victory will bring them closer to the title, but in front of them stands one of the opponents that tends to make it quite difficult for them in the direct battles, including a victory earlier this season in penalties at the champion of champions.
The Greens beat Beer Sheva in the pair of games in the league between the teams this season. The team from Carmel has 80.25% success in the league compared to 75.31% for the opponent. Both teams score the same amount of goals per game (1.96), with the defense of Eliniv Barda’s team more stable with 0.7 absorptions compared to 0.93.
Outstanding group data
# Maccabi Haifa scored the most goals from corners (10) and penalties (7). On the other hand, BS scored nine goals from free kicks, more than any other team, with two of them being direct.
# Maccabi Haifa’s goal difference in the first half is 16:21 (5+) and 9:32 in the second half (23+). On the other hand, Beer Sheva kept a clean sheet in seven of its last nine league games.
Prominent personal data in Maccabi Haifa
Leading scorer: Omar Azili (18)
Lead brewer: Omar Azili (9)
Scoring attempts: Omar Azili (88)
Accurate key passes: Omar Azili (32)
Successful dribbles: Omar Azili (56)
Successful tackles: Muhammad Abu Fani (63)
# Josh Cohen stopped two penalties out of five this season, with his team winning by one goal in both cases.
# Atzili scored six goals this season in the first four rounds, six between rounds 5 and 24 and six in the previous three rounds.
Prominent personal data in Hapoel B.S
Leading scorer: Rotem Hatuel (11)
Leading brewer: Dor Micah (6)
Scoring attempts: Rotem Hatuel (43)
Accurate key passes: Dor Micah (27)
Successful dribbles: Shafi Suleimanov (77)
Successful tackles: Shay Elias (64)
# Omri Glazer has kept a clean sheet in seven of his last nine league games.
interesting facts
# Both teams have won their last four league games.
# Maccabi Haifa has the best home record in the league (13 wins and a draw).
# LBS has the best away record in the league (11 wins and two losses, one of them against the Carmel Greens).
# Beer Sheva lost four games in the league this season, two of them against Maccabi Haifa.
# Even at the end of the 27th round of the previous season, the Greens led the table with a difference of four points from the claimant for the crown from the Negev.
# Last season the gap between the teams increased to seven points in the 28th round after the Greens won 0:2 with goals from Mohammed Abu Fani and San Menachem.