A great Saturday of football passed us by last night, and we saw some particularly interesting games. Maccabi Tel Aviv lost first points with 0:0 against Ashdod, Maccabi Haifa beat Ness Ziona 1:3 and opened a gap from the yellows. In another interesting match, Sakhnin and Netanya drew 0:0.
Maccabi Tel Aviv – Maccabi Ashdod 0:0
– The average position of one field player of the Yellows (Sharen Yeni) was behind the halfway line. The average position of only three players of Ashdod (Hamodi Kanaan, Oz Bilo and Ebenezer Mamata) was beyond the halfway line.
– Ashdod possessed the ball 32% of the time, but they kicked 4 times into the frame compared to 5 for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Maccabi Tel Aviv had a higher xG, not least thanks to the penalty Sharan Zahavi missed.
– Zahavi finished with xG of 0.91 goals, completed 20 passes and lost 10 balls.
– One player in Maccabi Tel Aviv completed a key pass: Enrique Savorit. The team completed one key pass out of 14 attempts.
Maccabi Haifa – Section Nes Ziona 1:3
– Omar Atzili finished with two goals in his 2 kicks to the frame, and with an xG of only 0.23. Nikita Rukavica finished with an xG of 0.92.
– Section goal scorer Freddy Plowman did it with an xG of just 0.08.
– Mavis Chibuta completed only 7 passes in 49 minutes and did not kick on goal. Roakvica completed 5 passes in 65 minutes.
– Dylan Betobinsica won 11 of 12 fights, delivered 60 of 67 accurate passes and pulled out 7 balls.
Bnei Sakhnin – Maccabi Netanya 0:0
– Netanya finished the game with 1.45xG, Sakhnin with 1.36xG. In the match there were 0 goals and 2.81 “expected goals”.
– Throughout the game Sakhnin possessed the ball 53% of the time. Between the 30th and 45th minutes specifically, she possessed it only 38% of the time.
– Ehav Ganaiim finished the game with 11 saves and 2 turnovers. He completed 25 passes and won 12 of 19 tackles.
– Netanya’s two team players (Karam Jaber and Igor Zlatanovich) kicked the frame, as well as 3 substitutes (Eitan Azoulai, Erich Barko and Gil Yitzhak).
