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Mitrovic’s scorcher is here: Maccabi’s goals against Ashdod
קליפ שערים לקראת אשדוד
Stats Talk: The numbers ahead of Maccabi and Ashdod
To date there have been 57 meetings between the club’s: The record: 34 Maccabi wins, 13 draws, 10 Ashdod wins. Goal differential: 101:45 in favor of Maccabi.
The 67% success rate versus Ashdod is the highest among the 15 teams that Maccabi has played at least 50 league matches against.
In the matches that Maccabi host the record stands at: 19 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses (78% success rate). This is also the highest among the 15 teams that Maccabi has played at least 25 home matches against.
Last season the two contests between Maccabi and Ashdod ended in draws. That was the first time since 2010/11 that all of the league matches against one club ended in a draw.
Goal scoring leaders against Ashdod: Avi Nimni 7, Rodrigo Goldberg 5, Baruch Dego 5, Eli Driks 5.
The biggest win over Ashdod – 7:1 in 1998/99. Goal scorers: Ben Luz (2), Haim Hagag, Efi Zafrir, Guy Tzarfati, Alek Nilash.
Ashdod’s first Israel Premier League match was against Maccabi – Matchday 1 1993/94 – Maccabi won 1:0 on a goal by Itzik Zohar.
Yuval Naim was just appointed as Ashdod’s head coach. His record against Maccabi: 2 wins, 1 draw and 7 losses.
Ashdod’s al-time record at the Netanya Stadium (against all clubs): 0 wins, 6 draws, 9 losses. Should Ashdod not win this coming Matchday they will set an all-time record for a club that hasn’t won a match at a one specific stadium – 16 matches.
Blast from the Past: Yellow & Blue against Frankfurt
2013/14: מכבי ת”א – פרנקפורט 2:4
Blast from the Past: The match that got tricky but ended well
מחזור 19 – תקציר הניצחון על בני סכנין
Trivia: What do you know about Maccabi’s season to date
Writing history: The record Maccabi wants to break
To date there have been 40 league matches between Maccabi and Sakhnin. The record: 28 Maccabi wins, 8 draws and 4 Sakhnin victories. The goal differential stands at 85:28 in favor of Maccabi.
I’m terms of Maccabi’s home refers the Yellow & Blue have won 16 contests, drawn 3 and lost only once. The goal differential is 50:14 for Maccabi.
Are you impressed with those stats? Certainly. Maccabi has a 85% success rate which is the highest of the 18 different clubs that the Yellow & Blue have hosted and have played at least 20 home matches!
In addition, Maccabi has won the last 13 home contests against Sakhnin and one more victory will set an all-time league record. To date Maccabi’s 13 match winning streak against Sakhnin and Maccabi Haifa’s streak against Hapoel Petah Tikva which was set at the beginning of the 2000’s share the league record.
The biggest win over Sakhnin: 4:0 twice. Both matches were at home in 2010/11 and 2012/13.
Eran Zahavi holds the goal scoring record against Sakhnin with 12. Eliran Atar has Vidar Kjartansson are in second with 6 goals a piece.
Kjartansson scored the last 5 Maccabi goals against Sakhnin, which is the longest streak against one team other than Avi Nimni’s 7 straight goals versus Hapoel Petah Tikva.
There have been 143 Maccabi players who appeared in 40 league matches against Sakhnin. 52 of them have a 100% success rate. Among the 52 players with a 100% success rate, Eliran Atar has played the most matches with 8.
Khalid Khalila has accumulated 9 red cards over the course of his career. Three have been against Maccabi while the other 6 were against six other clubs. Only Yossi Bellas (played in the Maccabi youth system, Holon, Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Tel Aviv) has been issued more red cards against Maccabi with 4.
Over the last four seasons 2014/15-2017/18 Maccabi has been in either 2nd or 3rd place on Matchday 9 (the current Matchday). In the first 4 years of the decade 2010/11-2013/14 Maccabi led the league by the end of Matchday 9. Where will Maccabi be this time around? The answers await Saturday night.
Blast from the Past: Atar & Yeini defeat Hapoel Haifa
2011/12: מכבי ת”א – הפועל חיפה 0:2
Hole in the Goal: When Maccabi faced Hadera in ‘79
Up until this season, 1978/79 was the last season that Hapoel Hadera was in the top league. That same season, Maccabi won the league title and in the first round the Yellow & Blue played at Hadera in a match that they win 3:1 but the center of attention surrounded their last goal. Giora Spiegel’s individual effort ended with the ball heading into the goal but went out through a hole in the net. After a few minutes of consultation, the referee crew confirmed that it was certainly a goal. Check out the video clip from 40 years ago:
1978/79: הפועל חדרה – מכבי ת”א 3:1
What do the numbers tell us? When Maccabi plays newly promoted clubs
Over the years Maccabi has played 291 matches against newly promoted teams. The record to date: 169 wins, 77 draws, 45 losses.
And what is the Yellow & Blue’s record in first round matches against newly promoted sides? 105 wins, 23 draws, 2 losses.
In 67 Israel football seasons, Hapoel Hadera has played 9 campaigns in the top league, 36 seasons in the 2nd division, 12 in the 3rd, 5 in the fourth and the fifth divisions.
Maccabi met Hadera 16 times in league play. The Yellow & Blue have won 9 contests, drew 3 and lost 4.
Miki Belo who holds the club’s appearance record played in 12 of 16 matches against Hadera. There have been 57 players in total that have played for Maccabi against Hadera. Dror Bar Nur is at the top of the goal scoring list with 5.
Other than Eliel Peretz and Hasan Abu Zaid who currently play for Hadera and who have played for Maccabi in the past, three other players have played for both in the first division, all of which are keepers – Haim Levin, Mordechai Michaeli and Shaul Ben-David.
To date there have been 65 rounds of matches that were led by promoted clubs. Hadera has done this 3 times so far this season.
There were two newly promoted clubs that won the league championship: Hapoel Ramat Gan in 1963/64 and Beitar Jerusalem in 1992/93.
Maccabi has played promoted clubs when they were in first place five times. The record: 1 win, 2 draws and 2 losses.