We’re done with the first round of 13 matches in Winner League action and Maccabi sits in first place. What do the numbers tell us? When did the team score the most goals? Who scored their first goal with Maccabi and how did we have four different keepers in goal. That and more below
13 Matchdays, 27 goals, first place. Here’s the summary of the first round of Maccabi Tel Aviv matches in the Winner League. Now that we’re heading towards the end of the year, we can look back at the first round of games and some very interesting statistics that we found out in the first third of the season.
27 goals were scored including one own goal.
The cup’s half full: 20 goals were scored in the second half while only 7 in the first.
Money Time: A 1/3 of the goals were scored after the 80th minute.
Quick & Dirty: The fastest goal was the own goal scored by Hapoel Akko central defender Boris Kopitovic in the first minute.
Perfect Spot: Maccabi was a perfect 3/3 from the penalty spot.
Good Heads: 5 goals or 20% of the team’s goals were scored by headers.
Yellow-and-Blue Debut: 3 players scored their first goals with Maccabi – Shlomi Azulay, Avi Rikan and Dor Peretz.
Winning Substitutions: 5 goals were scored by players who came in as substitutes (Tal Ben Chaim, Barak Itzhaki & Eden Ben Basat)
Keepers: Maccabi had four different players who served as goalkeeper in the first round of matches: Juan Pablo, Predrag Rajkovic, Daniel Lifshitz and winger Tal Ben Chaim.
