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Who is the king here? The fascinating battle for the goalscoring crown in the Premier League - voila! sport

2023-02-25T09:45:18.076Z


Atzili wants to end the drought, Nicolasco and Asperia are approaching a club record and Zahabi can join a particularly exclusive group at the end of the season


Omar Atzili puts Maccabi Haifa ahead 1:2 over Hapoel Jerusalem (Sport1)

In the 18th round, Omar Atzili scored his 12th goal of the season in the Premier League and was alone at the top of the top scorers, where he also stood at the end of last season.

However, since then the Maccabi Haifa star has not found the back of the net again, and has seen Yoon Nicolasco and Eran Zahavi pass him and create an intriguing battle for the individual title with the participation of at least eight players - those who have already scored 10 goals or more - who are currently arranged in pairs.



Top scorer table on the eve of the 24th cycle:



1. Yoon Nicolasco (Beitar Jerusalem) 14


- Eran Zahavi (Maccabi Tel Aviv) 14


2. Omar Atzili (Maccabi Haifa) 12


- Danilo Asperia (Beitar Jerusalem) 12


3. George Yovanovich (Maccabi Tel Aviv) 11


-.

Rotem Hatuel (Hapoel Beer Sheva) 11


4. Igor Zlatanovich (Maccabi Netanya) 10


-.

Guy Melamed (Bnei Sakhnin) 10

In the first round, he scored for Beitar from the penalty spot. Omar Azili (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)

Three of the four leaders will run tonight (Saturday, 20:00) on the grass in the main game of the cycle, when Maccabi Haifa will host Beitar Jerusalem. Atzili is expected to return to the lineup after not starting in the last two cycles and will try to break the personal drought, when he is also not a cook Since then, he has contributed to the same victory over Hapoel Jerusalem in the 18th round.



In total, Azili has scored in eight league games, and all of them have ended in Maccabi Haifa victories. By the way, five of his 12 goals so far have been from the penalty spot (a perfect balance of 5 of 5, including in -1:4 over Beitar in the first round), in contrast to, for example, Nicolasco who kicked one penalty and Asperia, all 12 of his goals this season were field goals.

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The most prolific duo in the league, but separately nominated for the title of top scorer.

Yon Nicolasco with Danilo Asperia (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)

The two foreign scorers of Beitar have scored 26 goals together so far and are only five goals away from the joint record set by Stephan Shaloy (16) and Ishtven Pishont (15), on the way to the championship in 1997/98. If one of them finishes alone as top scorer, it will be The first time in history that a player from the Jerusalem club has done this. All of Beitar's goalscorers to date (Eli Miali, Uri Malmilian and Barak Itzhaki) have shared the first place with other players.



In addition, Nicolasco and Asperia can mark the number 20 as a target.

Beitar has never had a player who scored such an amount of league goals in one season. The record holder Vladimir Gershnev scored 19 goals in the 1993/94 season, in which there were 39 turnovers.

Release the Nazarene after the World Cup break.

Eran Zahavi (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

Even before the main game, Eran Zahavi and George Yovanovic will have the opportunity to improve their record when Maccabi Tel Aviv will be hosted by the table-locker Sectia Nes Ziona.

Zahavi, who was the league's top scorer in three consecutive seasons (2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16), climbed to first place also in his comeback season to Israel thanks to nine goals he scored since returning from the World Cup break.

If he finishes top again, he will be the fifth player to win the top scorer title in four different seasons.

He was preceded by: Moshe Romano, Oded Mekans, David Lavi and Alon Mizrahi.



Jovanovic, Zahavi's partner in the attack, is suffering from a drought similar to Atzili's and has not found the back of the net since the double to the MS net.

Ashdod in the 17th cycle.

All 11 of the Serbian striker's goals were from the field and only in one case where he scored did Maccabi Tel Aviv not win (1:1 in Kiryat Shmona).

If he manages to overtake his competitors and take first place, he will be the third foreign top scorer produced by Maccabi Tel Aviv, after Andrzej Kubica (21 goals in 1998/99) and Vidar Kjartenson (19 goals in 2016/17).

Not just a super-sub.

Rotem Hatuel (Photo: Barney Ardov)

And what about the others?

Rotem Hatuel, Hapoel Beer Sheva's top scorer, scored six of his 11 goals in games in which he came off the bench.

He is the league's leading super-sub (those coming in line in this category have three goals) and also has a goal per minute average better than all league players - a goal every 98 minutes.

He also has a chance to threaten the club record set by Hisham Zoevi 30 years ago, when he finished the 1992/93 season with 17 goals.



Guy Melamed has scored 45.5 percent of Bnei Sakhnin's total goals in the league and he can also challenge the club's record of 16 (Oren was released in the National League in 2000/01), while Igor Zlatanovich, for whom this is his second season in double figures in the Premier League, has scored a third of Maccabi Netanya's goals and he is the only one besides Azili and Nicolasco (fourth) who celebrated a hat trick this season.

They are also strong in the picture.

Who will be the top scorer of the Premier League?

Ion Nicolasco

Eran Zehavi

Omar Azili

Danilo Asperia

Djorja Jovanovic

Rotem Hatuel

Igor Zlatanovich

Guy Melamed

Other

The games of the 24th cycle:



Saturday, 15:00: Hapoel Tel Aviv - MS.

Ashdod (Sport4)


Saturday, 5:30 p.m.: Ness Ziona section - Maccabi Tel Aviv (Sport4)


Saturday, 6:30 p.m.: Bnei Sakhnin - Ironi Kiryat Shmona


Saturday, 7:00 p.m.: Maccabi Netanya - Hapoel Hadera


Saturday, 8:00 p.m.: Maccabi Haifa - Beitar Jerusalem



Sunday, 20:15: Hapoel Jerusalem - Hapoel Haifa (Sport4)



Monday, 20:00: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Bnei Rayna (Sport1)

  • sport

  • Israeli soccer

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  • Eran Zehavi

  • Omar Azili

  • Ion Nicolasco

  • Danilo Asperia

Source: walla

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