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Saturday, 15:00: Maccabi Netanya - Maccabi Petah Tikva (Sport4)
* 118 meetings were between the teams in the senior league: 41:43 to Maccabi Netanya in victories and another 34 games ended in a draw.
* Maccabi Petah Tikva won 0:1 in the first round (after four losses and three draws against Netanya in all frames) and will now try to complete the first seasonal double since 2005/06.
* All of Maccabi Netanya's last 13 games came to a decision: six wins compared to seven losses.
* Maccabi Petah Tikva is the worst away team in the league, still winless as a guest and with only three points.
Its last away victory in the Premier League was in March 2022, almost two years ago: 4:3 in Ashdod.
* After the debut victory at Maccabi Petah Tikva and about a month and a half since he was fired from Maccabi Netanya, Ran Kozhoch will coach for the first time against the team with which he won the Toto Cup and reached the final of the State Cup last season.
Meets Netanya for the first time as an opposing coach.
Ran Kozhoch/Maor Alxalsi
Saturday, 17:30: Bnei Sakhnin - Hapoel Beer Sheva (Sport4)
* Bnei Sakhnin beat Hapoel Beer Sheva only twice in the last 22 league meetings - 1:2 in the first round at Turner and 0:1 at home in January 2021 from a goal by Biram Kiel.
Beer Sheva achieved 13 victories and another seven games were not decided.
* Two victories over Hapoel Beer Sheva during the regular season?
Sakhnin has not done this since 2011/12, when they celebrated 3:4 at home and then 0:2 away.
* Sakhnin is the draw queen of the league with 10 games that have not been decided, half of them at home.
It is the team that won the fewest times at home this season - only once (1:2 against Hapoel Jerusalem in the third round).
* Hapoel Beer Sheva on a streak of eight league victories.
Only two wins away from the club record of 10, which she set in February-April 2017. Away from home, the streak stands at four wins, while in the last three she did not concede at all.
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The only remnant of the 2017 10-game winning streak.
Miguel Vitor/Kobi Eliyahu
Saturday, 18:00: Hapoel Petah Tikva - Hapoel Haifa
* The balance in 113 league games between the teams: 35:43 for Hapoel Petah Tikva in victories and another 35 draw results.
* All the last 19 league meetings between the two have produced goals, since the last 0:0 which was in March 2001.
* Hapoel Haifa won 1:2 away in the cup six years ago, but in the league has not done it since the 0:1 in October 2011 , when Hapoel Petah Tikva hosted at Ramat Gan Stadium.
Vladimir Glushchevich then ruled, Guy Sraffati and Yossi Dora clashed and were sent off.
* Hapoel Petah Tikva scored points at home against three of the other four leaders: a victory over Hapoel Beer Sheva and draws against Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv (in addition to victories over Maccabi Netanya and Beitar Jerusalem).
* Hapoel Haifa, on the other hand, lost to only four teams this season who are with her in the top five and scored only one point against them.Her balance in meetings with all the others: 36 points out of a possible 42 and without a single loss.
Yossi Dora and Guy Sarfati after they were expelled together in 2011/Dror Einav
Saturday, 19:30: Hapoel Tel Aviv - M.S.
Ashdod (Sport2)
* The two teams have met 69 times in the Premier League.
Hapoel Tel Aviv leads 19:34 in victories and another 16 games have not been decided.
* MS
Ashdod won the last five meetings, two of which were in the Toto Cup.
In all of them it was on the edge of a gate.
* Hapoel Tel Aviv is on a streak of five league losses (six including the cup) and has only scored two points from the last 24.
This is the longest streak since October-November 1996 and before that happened in November-December 1977. Six straight league losses?
It hasn't been since October-November 1974.
* Within the current losing streak, the Reds have conceded three fourths, and have put a total of 18 balls in the back of the net in league games in 2024.
* MS
Ashdod is unbeaten in its last three away games.
Four away games without a loss?
She did this last in October-November 2021.
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Hapoel Tel Aviv players/Maor Alxalsi
Sunday, 19:00: Maccabi Bnei Rayna - Hapoel Hadera
* The 0:2 in the previous round was Bnei Rayna's first victory over Hapoel Hadera and also Sharon Mimar's debut victory, who before that had three losses and three draws against her.
* Against Haim Silves, his record is completely reversed: six wins, two draws and only one loss.
This happened in the first meeting between them, when Silves' Hapoel Raanana beat Mimar's Hapoel Kfar Saba 1:2 in October 2016.
* Bnei Rayna, who won only once in the last nine rounds, remains the only team in the league that has not yet been whistled for a penalty this season.
* Hapoel Hadera has the worst attack in the league so far - only 12 goals in 18 rounds, when Elad Madmon alone scored eight of them.
* Hapoel entered without a win in the last seven rounds, during which they gained only two points.
1:1 in the previous derby that Hapoel hosted.
Jordan Shua before Ofek Biton/Danny Maron
Sunday, 20:00: Hapoel Jerusalem - Beitar Jerusalem (Sport4)
* The balance of derbies in the top league since the establishment of the state stands at 13:27 in favor of Beitar Jerusalem and another 22 draw results, with the most frequent result being 1:1 (15 times, including the last meeting that Hapoel Jerusalem hosted).
* Last season, Hapoel won a derby as a guest ( for the first time since May 1991) and will now try to do it as a host as well - something that hasn't happened in the league since the 1:2 in December 1981. Ali Othman scored an own goal in the same game, equalizing on the other side and David Booker completed the turnaround, when in the 85th minute Mario Zuchovicky "L stopped a penalty by Uri Malmilian.
* Hapoel Jerusalem is winless in the last five rounds and is the only team in the league that did not score in the 45-60 minutes.
* Beitar will try to string together a third consecutive away win in the league, as it did last in April-May 2022. Then, the second win out of the three was 0:1 as a guest in a derby with a goal by Richmond Boachi.
* Gal Cohen's only three wins as a coach were in the National League, and one of them was against Hapoel Jerusalem and Ziv Aryeh. This happened in November 2020, when he led Hapoel Ra'anana to 0:3 in a tie. Awka Ashta then scored an own goal, Roi Herman and Uri Cohen completed. Apart from Ashta, Adebayo Adeli, Noam Malamud also And Yorai Malih then started the lineup.
The last seasonal double over Maccabi Tel Aviv was at the end of their previous term.
Lior Rafalov with Tomer Hamed in 2011/Barney Ardov
Monday, 20:30: Maccabi Haifa - Maccabi Tel Aviv
* This will be the 177th meeting between the teams in the top league.
The balance so far: 52:72 for Maccabi Tel Aviv in victories and another 52 games not decided.
* In the postponed meeting last month, Maccabi Haifa won in Bloomfield for the first time since Tomer Hamed's double 0:2 in May 2011 (and for the first time away since the 0:2 in Netanya in October 2016).
In the same 2010/11 season, the Greens' last seasonal double was also recorded - 0:1 in Bloomfield in the opening round and 0:3 in Kiryat Eliezer in the second round.
Hamad's duo has already reached the playoffs.
* Three times in the past, Maccabi Tel Aviv hosted Maccabi Haifa as part of the 20th cycle.
In the 1987/88 season they lost 1:0 in Kiryat Eliezer, a year later they were defeated 5:0 with a hat trick from Nir Klinger and in the last meeting in 2016/17 it was Vidar Kjartenson who completed a brace in the 90th minute and made it 2:2.
* Maccabi Haifa in a streak of 28 home games without a loss in the Premier League (25 wins and three draws).
The last guest that won at their place: Maccabi Tel Aviv with 1:3 in May 2022, in a game in which Roi Misfati opened the goal for the Greens, who practically guaranteed a championship despite the loss.
* Maccabi Tel Aviv is on a streak of 11 away games without a loss in the Premier League, since the 3:1 in Haifa at the end of last season.
By the way, of the 11 who started then in the champion lineup, only two will be able to play again this time: Sean Goldberg and Daniel Sondgren.
* Maccabi Haifa never lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv when Lior Rafalov started in the lineup.
Six times won (including about a month ago from his goal) and four times ended in a draw.
His only two losses against the Yellows were as a substitute.
* The balance between the two when Oral Greenfeld is the referee: five victories for Maccabi Tel Aviv compared to four for Maccabi Haifa, including the 0:1 in the first round.
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