Match Stats
Maccabi have won 12 of their last 13 matches.
Lito Vidigal’s record as the Maccabi Tel Aviv Head Coach features 9 victories in ten total matches.
Maccabi also won their 10th home contest in a row.
Of the ten matches, the Yellow & Blue kept a clean sheet in 7 of them.
Of course, Predrag Rajikovic has played a big part in this streak by not allowing a goal in 647 minutes at the Netanya Stadium.
Yuval Shpungin started against Maccabi Petah Tikva for his second league start and appearance this season. The last time the defender featured as in the 2:1 away win at Hapoel Ashkelon on March 5th.
Tal Ben Chaim scored his 14th goal and leaves him only one goal behind the league’s scoring king Vidar Kjartansson who has 15.
When leads the league in assists? None other than Dor Micha with 11 helpers while recording 13 across all competitions.
What did they do?
Egor Filipenka won 12 of 15 battles over the course of the match which represented the most of any Maccabi player that included aerial and ground battles on offense and defense. Yuval Shpungin went 10/13, Ben Haim recorded 8/12, Sheran Yeini 11/18 and Eyal Golasa 9/14.
Tal Ben Haim stole 11 balls, more than any other player while Yeini had 8 and Filipenka finished the night with 6.
Dor Micha attempted 6 key passes with 3 hitting the intended target, the most on Maccabi. Yossi Benayoun made 5 key passes with 2 finding the address he was looking for.
Micha also sent 6 balls into the box on 9 tries while Ben Chaim went 5/9 and Benayoun 5/8.
Golasa and Micael made the most passes between two players with 31. Usually the most passes made over the course of a match is between a central defender and a midfielder to begin an attack, but when the most passes are between two midfielders that usually means that the ball control is much more effective.
