First and foremost, last night’s victory was the 69th league victory Maccabi recorded over Maccabi Haifa. Only Maccabi Netanya (71) suffered more defeats.
Yesterday Maccabi extended their record to 15 successive unbeaten matches against Haifa – registering 11 victories and 4 draws since January 2017.
Haifa’s three longest “negative runs” were set by Maccabi: 15 winless matches in succession yesterday, with the previous two runs recorded in May 2016 (14), and December 1960 (11).
Last night’s victory at Bloomfield stretched Maccabi’s run to 9 successive victories over Haifa at the Jaffa stadium, one less than the all time record of 10 straight wins recorded against Bnei Sachnin.
Tal Ben Chaim who cancelled Haifa’s early lead to level the score, scored his first league goal since April 22nd 2017 against Beitar Jerusalem. Ben Chaim’s 37th goal for Maccabi helped him climb to 23rd place in the all time record charts.
The 2020/21 rollercoaster ride appears to be thrilling in particular, as the reigning Champions recorded registered their third injury time victory of the season. With similar injury time victories recorded against Hapoel Haifa and Kiryat Shmona, this equalled the same number of games as the 2013/14 season while we are not even halfway through the season.
Overall, this was Maccabi’s 28th injury time victory.
Maccabi Haifa now join Bnei Yehuda as the team we beat most inside injury time – with four overall victories.
