Undefeated year
Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Beer Sheva played to a 0:0 draw in league play last night. The Yellow & Blue may not have won but the fact that they finished the contest all knotted up means that the club has gone a full year undefeated in league action as of April 16th.
The last time Maccabi lost was a year ago when they fell to Beitar Jerusalem 3:2 at Teddy Stadium.
Since then the Yellow & Blue have gone undefeated in 36 matches which included 30 wins this season and 6 from the last campaign. Over the course of these games Maccabi has recorded 29 wins and drew 7 times.
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Over the streak, Maccabi has only gone goalless in three of those matches with the last one coming yesterday against Hapoel Beer Sheva.
The Yellow & Blue have scored four goals 5 times, the most goals scored in a single match during that time. They defeated Maccabi Netanya twice by the score of 4:1.
Hapoel Beer Sheva, Bnei Yehuda and Maccabi Netanya were the three teams that Maccabi had played the most – 4 times each.
In fact, next Matchday the Yellow & Blue will face Bnei Yehuda, the same team that Maccabi defeated to begin the streak.
22 attempts on goal
Maccabi may not have found the back of the goal but they took 22 attempts compared to just 3 by Beer Sheva.
The Yellow & Blue’s average this season stands at 15.5 attempts towards the goal per match.
The most attempts this season of 25 was set last Matchday when Maccabi defeated Maccabi Netanya 4:1.
Maccabi tied their attempts with that of Matchday 12 when they dropped Ashdod 4:0 which was the most until the contest against Netanya.
Avi Rikan and Yonatan Cohen led the team with 5 and 4 respectively. Omer Atzili, Eliran and Atar who entered they match as a substitute had 3 attempts a piece.
In terms of kilometers covered against Beer Sheva, Avi Rikan (11.5km), Dan Glezer (10.9km) and Dor Peretz (10.8km) ran the most over the 90+ minutes of the match.