Outside the Lines, 29.2/Photography: Walla System Video Editing: Gilad Mann Mannheim
Saturday, 15:00: Maccabi Netanya - Hapoel Haifa (Sport4)
* Hapoel Haifa won the first round 1:2, after nine meetings in which they failed to do so against Maccabi Netanya (five losses and four 0:0 results).
Away from home, it has not beaten its opponent since 1:2 in December 2018.
* Hapoel Haifa started the same season with a crushing 0:5 against Netanya, so this is the last time it beat them in both regular league meetings.
* Maccabi Netanya ended the previous round with a 0:0 against Beitar Jerusalem, thereby breaking a streak of five losses and 16 league games that reached a decision. At home, they are still on an active streak of three losses, with no longer since the six consecutive losses at the end of the relegation season in 2015/16.
* Hapoel Haifa without a win in the last three cycles (its longest streak of the season), but lost only once away during 2023/24.
* Maccabi Netanya is the only team in the league that did not come back from a deficit to draw. It completed a turnaround in two cases and lost in another 12. Hapoel Haifa, on the other hand, made three turnovers (the most in the league, along with Maccabi Tel Aviv).
The last time Maccabi Netanya had four consecutive home losses/Kubi Eliyahu
Saturday, 18:30: Bnei Sakhnin - MS.
Ashdod
* This will be the 47th meeting between the teams in the Premier League.
The balance so far: 17 victories for Bnei Sakhnin, 16 for MS.
Ashdod and 13 draw results.
* Sakhnin did win the previous match at the Doha Stadium (1:2 over Beitar Jerusalem in extra time), but they are still the worst home team in the league with only two wins and 11 points.
* MS Ashdod with a single away win this season (1: 2 against Maccabi Petah Tikva) and kept a clean sheet only once as a guest (0:0 in Green against Maccabi Bnei Rayna).
* Only four goals (two for each side) were scored in the first half in MS Ashdod's away games - the fewest in the league.
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Mark Costa celebrates against Beitar in May last year/Danny Maron
Saturday, 18:30: Hapoel Jerusalem - Maccabi Bnei Rayna
* Hapoel Jerusalem counts four consecutive games without a loss, in all of which it came from behind: twice it became a victory in extra time and twice it tied at 1:1.
* Maccabi Bnei Reina also comes after two consecutive draws, but they won only two of the last 13 league games.
In the last three away games, Sharon Mimar's team did not find the back of the net.
* Hapoel Jerusalem is the only team in the league that failed to score in the 45-60 minutes.
Her opponent has six goals in that span.
* Kerem Zoevi, the youngest player to score this season in the Premier League, celebrated his debut goal when he equalized 1:1 against Bnei Raina in the previous round.
* Benny Reina remains the only team that has not been whistled for a penalty this season.
By the way, her last penalty was in an away game against a Jerusalem team: Mark Costa then scored 0:1 in Petah Tikva against Beitar in May 2023.
Since that moment, he has only found the back of the net in one league game.
Eran Zahavi before the free kick against Maccabi Petah Tikva in the first round/Barney Ardov
Saturday, 19:30: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Maccabi Petah Tikva (Sport4)
* The balance in the last 23 meetings between the teams in all formats: 18 victories for Maccabi Tel Aviv against only two victories for Maccabi Petah Tikva (the last in Bloomfield in the opening cycle of 2020/21) and three draw results.
* Nine times in the past the two have met in the 24th round, and surprisingly the balance is equal: four wins for each side and one draw.
The last time was four years ago and then Maccabi Tel Aviv won 0:2 when they hosted in Netanya.
In Bloomfield it hasn't happened since April 1984, when Elisha Levy equalized 1:1 for Maccabi Petah Tikva after a goal by Hai Krais.
* Maccabi Petah Tikva is undefeated in the last six rounds (four wins and two draws) and has conceded only twice.
Despite this, it is still the worst defense in the league with 39 conceded goals.
* Maccabi Tel Aviv gained 12 points this season from behind - more than any other team in the Premier League.
* In the 1:2 against Maccabi Petah Tikva in the first round, Eran Zahavi completed a turnaround with a free kick and counted seven consecutive rounds with a goal.
Since then there were 12 more league games and he only scored against Hapoel Tel Aviv.
In the Maccabi Haifa uniform he had two different streaks of three league games in which he scored.
Godsway Donio/Bernie Ardov
Sunday, 20:00: Maccabi Haifa - Hapoel Hadera (Sport1)
* In the last 11 meetings in all formats: nine victories for Maccabi Haifa and two draws.
Hapoel Hadera scored only three goals in this series of games.
* Hadera's last wins over Maccabi Haifa were in the top playoff in 2018/19, when they did it with 1:3 away and 0:2 at home.
* Maccabi Haifa is unbeaten in its last 30 home games in the league (26 wins and four draws).
This is a club record.
* Franzi Pierro scored 22 goals this season in all competitions for Maccabi Haifa: 14 in the league, seven in Europe and one in the cup.
In the next goal, he will equal Sergey Kalashchenko as the foreign player with the most goals in one season.
The striker from Moldova had 23 goals in the 1999/00 season: 22 in the league and one more in the Toto Cup.
Nikita Rukabicia scored 24 goals in all competitions in 2019/20 and 2020/21, but played in the team as an Israeli and not as a foreigner.
* Godsway Donio scored in the last two rounds and that was enough for him to become Hapoel Hadera's second top scorer this season.
During his time at Maccabi Haifa, he had two occasions in which he found the back of the net in three consecutive league games.
* Haim Silves lost (zero) in the last five games in which he coached against his youth team Maccabi Haifa.
The previous victory: 1:2 as coach of Hapoel Haifa in November 2020. His only away victory: 1:2 as coach of Kiryat Shmona in April 2018.
We don't want to go down in the history books as the worst foreign losses.
Hapoel Tel Aviv players/Kobe Eliyahu
Monday, 20:00: Hapoel Petah Tikva - Hapoel Tel Aviv (Sport1)
* 127 league meetings between the teams since the establishment of the state.
The total balance: 34:56 for Hapoel Tel Aviv in wins and another 37 draw results.
* Since the 1:4 over Hapoel Petah Tikva in the first round, Hapoel Tel Aviv has won only once in 12 rounds (1:3 at home over MS Ashdod).
* Away from home, the Reds have lost six in a row - for the first time since the middle of the 2004/05 season.
So, that streak included a 1:0 loss to Hapoel Petah Tikva from a goal by Zeev Chaimovich in the 90th minute.
Before that there was an identical run of six losses at the end of the relegation season in 1988/89 and also in 1971/72, but seven consecutive away losses in one season?
This has never happened to the club.
* Yossi Abouxis without a win or a goal since returning to Hapoel Tel Aviv.
He finished the previous term as the coach of the Reds with five rounds without a win (four losses on the zero and 1:1 against Kiryat Shmona, when Salim Tuema scored with a free kick) so that the streak stands at eight games.
* Hapoel Petah Tikva without a win in the last seven rounds, including three consecutive home games without a goal.
First meeting as coaches.
Eliniv Breda with Barak Yitzhak/Itzik Yitzhak
Monday, 20:30: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Beitar Jerusalem
* Beitar Jerusalem beat Hapoel Beer Sheva only once in the last 31 league meetings. It happened in December 2019, when the striker Shlomi Azoulai scored 0:1 with Turner.
* In the first round, the two provided the most fruitful match of the season: 4:4 with Eight different scorers (including an own goal) and Hapoel Be'er Sheva's comeback from a 3:1 deficit.
* Eliniv Barda and Barak Yitzhaky are meeting for the first time as coaches. They collaborated in the past not only on the Israeli national team (Yitzhaky scored for Barda in a 1:2 win over Russia in November 2007) but Also in a Genk uniform during the second part of the 2007/08 season.
* Hapoel Beer Sheva lost in the previous round for the first time after 12 league games, while Beitar Jerusalem is winless in the last five rounds.
* Beitar Jerusalem lost four games this season in which they led - more than any other team in the league. In three other cases, their advantage turned into a tie.
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