The third penalty of the season
The 1:0 win over Bnei Sakhnin was Maccabi’s 4th win on a row across all competitions and are undefeated over their last 9 contests.
The penalty called against Bnei Sakhnin was Maccabi’s 3rd of the campaign. The first two both came in the match at Ashkelon.
Vidar Kjartansson was the man who scored the penalty for his 6th league goal this season, pulling him even with Nick Blackman in first place amongst the Maccabi goal scorers to date.
Despite scoring only one goal, Maccabi took 16 attempts at the Sakhnin goal with 5 on target. 11 came in the first half (3 on target).
What did the players do?
Blackman and Cristain Battocchio were the Yellow & Blue players with the most attempts, each with 4 while Baral Itzhaki (3) and Kjartansson (2) coming next in line.
Dor Micha gave the Sakhnin defenders a big headache making 7 successful dribbles out of 8 chances and both Micha and Eli Dasa led the side with 2 accurate key passes out of 3 opportunities.
Dasa (11), Micha (10) and Battocchio (9) combined for 30 crosses into the box with 14 accurate.
Dor Peretz had another good outing winning 9/11 aerial battles. He was also accurate on 51/55 passes with 36/39 being attacking passes.
Sheran Yeini stole the most balls with 12 as he played as one of three central defenders.
Who was the fastest and who ran the most?
Eli Dasa was the fastest player on the pitch running 33.1kph while Battocchio ran the most over the course of the 90 minutes going 10.8km.
