Vidar Kjartansson’s brace brought his league scoring total to 10 goals, which means the Icelander is now Maccabi’s goal scoring leader this season.
In addition, he now sits in second place amongst the league’s leading goal scorers tied with Ben Sahar while Tony Nwaekame is in first place with 11 strikes.
Kjartansson has scored 7 goals throughout all competitions in the month of January out of a total of 13 he’s scored for the Club to date.
Dor Micha assisted on Kjartansson’s second goal of the match for his 8th helper this season in all competitions.
Egor Filipenka started all of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s matches during the month of January.
Eyal Golasa ran the most for the Yellow & Blue against Haifa going 11km during the contest. Yossi Benayoun, who played 120 minutes just last Wednesday against Hapoel Raanana in the State Cup checked in with 10.5km while Kjartansson was third with 10.4km.
Omri Ben Harush was the fastest on the pitch at any one point in the game pacing himself at 33.6kph. Winger Tal Ben Chaim came in right behind him with 33.5kph.