A sixth victory in succession
Maccabi’s amazing spell continued yesterday with a 1-0 victory over Hapoel Kfar Sava, which was the champions’ sixth league victory in succession. For the first time since December 2019 Maccabi reaches this landmark.
Maccabi’s longest successful run since 2000 stands on 8 victories in succession (March 2013) and three more runs of 7 wins.
The most one-sided match
Yesterday’s match was the most one-sided match as Kfar Sava ended the match without a single shot on target.
This is the second time this season, together with the match against Kiryat Shmona, where a team fails to find the target during an entire match.
As for the shots on goal, Maccabi held a clear advantage of 22-1 – the highest ratio this season.
Those who led the ‘threats on goal’ chart on the night were the two midfielders: Dor Peretz (7) and Avi Rikan (6).
Dan Biton enjoyed another good game with 5 of 6 accurate key passes.
The statistic which indicates on Maccabi’s free-flowing attacking game is the number of accurate key passes (10) – the largest number of any team this season.
The impressive record at Hamoshava
The victory at Hamoshava stadium stretched Maccabi’s successful run against Kfar Sava to four clean-sheet victories since their return to the top flight last season.
This was also Maccabi’s Sixth victory in succession with a clean sheet at Hamoshava stadium (Maccabi Petah Tikva, Hapoel Ra’anana, Hapoel Kfar Sava, Sektzia Nes Ziona and Bnei Yehuda) – a record for an away team in the league.
Strong at the top
Aleksandar Pesic’s winner was not only his 8th goal this season but also the eighth goal Maccabi scored from headers this season. Pesic (3), Yonatan Cohen (2), Dor Peretz (1), Louis Hernandez (1) and Etey Shechter (1).
Since scoring 9 headers by MD21 in the 2009/10 season, Maccabi hasn’t scored so many headers until this stage of a season.
Pesic extended the successful run of winning every time he scored a goal – seven matches so far.
Throughout Maccabi’s history, there are 18 players whose goals led to victories in the first seven matches during which they scored.
Tal Ben Chaim who set up last night’s winning goal, assisted for the 19th time in the league to climb to number 24 in the all-time assist charts.
