Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv will meet tonight (20:30, Sport 5) for another meeting in the fight for the championship title of the 2023/24 season. In honor of the event that may enter the pantheon of meetings between the teams, we decided to prepare you as best as possible for the big battle.
Tonight's meeting will be the 177th league meeting between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa, making it the most played meeting in Israel's top league.
The balance sheet: 72 wins for Maccabi Tel Aviv, 52 draws and 52 wins for Haifa. Goal difference: 220:255 for Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Since Maccabi Haifa started playing at Sami Ofer Stadium, the teams have met at the stadium in 17 league meetings.
The balance sheet: 8 wins for Maccabi Tel Aviv, 6 draws and only 3 green victories. Goal difference: 21:29 for Maccabi Tel Aviv.
In the last 10 league meetings in the second round, the balance is 8 for Maccabi Tel Aviv, a draw and only one win for Maccabi Haifa.
For the first time in history you will meet 3 times in less than a month (26 days).
Until the current season, the 3 most crowded meetings between the teams in history were at the end of the 2015/16 season - in 37 days, the teams met twice in the playoffs (0:0 and 0:6 to Maccabi Tel Aviv) and in the cup final (0:1 to Haifa).
In the midst of the championship fight, two players from the biggest teams of Israeli football are fighting for the title of king of the goals.
Eran Zahavi leads the scorers table so far in the league with 11 goals, while Franzadi Piero is one place below him with 10 goals.
These two players are also the ones who threaten the goal the most times in the league from the box.
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On the yellow side, they will have to keep an eye on Anan Halaili, who is considered the player who performs the most dribbles in the league (90), while in the number of successful dribbles (45) he is ranked fourth.
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