Outside the lines, 11.4/Editor: Ziv Steiner
Saturday, 15:30: Beitar Jerusalem - Hapoel Hadera (Sport4)
* In 15 meetings since Hapoel Hadera's return to the top league, Beitar Jerusalem has won nine and conceded five. The only draw was 0:0 at Teddy in November 2021.
* This is Beitar Jerusalem's second afternoon game in 2023/24, after She previously beat the same room 0:3 away thanks to three assists by Jordan Shua. Last season she had two afternoon games and won both of them (2:3 over Sektia Nes Ziona and 1:2 over MS Ashdod).
* Beitar comes after two consecutive victories. It hasn't had three of these in two years, since April 2022. Then, also in the lower playoffs, it won 0:1 over MS Ashdod at home and then 0:2 away against Hapoel Nof HaGalil and 0:1 as a guest in the Jerusalem derby.
* But at Beit Beitar without a victory in 2024. She has a draw and a loss alternately in six home games, and in the last three she did not score at all.
Saturday, 17:45: Maccabi Haifa - Bnei Sakhnin (Sport4)
* The last time Bnei Sakhnin beat Maccabi Haifa in the league was in February 2018, when Shlomi Azoulai the striker scored 0:1 in Doha. Since then there have been 11 green victories and two draws, including 1:1 in Haifa in the first round this season.
* Sakhnin's last away win was in the upper playoffs: 0:1 from a goal by Yuval Avidor in April 2017. Maron Gantos is the only remnant of that game.
* Maccabi Haifa without a win in its last seven games in all competitions, for the first time since November-December 2017. Eight consecutive games without a win? This has not happened since the beginning of 1987/88, so after the tragic death of the late Avi Ran, the team had a nightmarish start to the season
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* Maccabi Haifa with a draw and a loss in the last two home games in the league. Three without a win? This hasn't happened since May-June 2020. They haven't had two consecutive league losses as hosts since March-April 2019 (in the top playoffs: 2:0 to Bnei Yehuda and then 3:1 to Hapoel Hadera).
* Bnei Sakhnin is the draw queen of the league with 13 undecided games, nine of which ended in 1:1.
Saturday, 20:00: Hapoel Tel Aviv - Hapoel Petah Tikva (Sport3)
* 128 league meetings between the teams since the establishment of the state. The total balance: 34:56 for Hapoel Tel Aviv in victories and another 38 draw results.
* 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 12 games.
* In total, Hapoel Tel Aviv has a single victory in the last 16 rounds, since the 1:4 home win over Hapoel Petah Tikva. The guest is without a win in the last 11, since the 0:2 home win against Maccabi Netanya about three months ago.
* The Reds are in a drought of 643 minutes, since the last goal of Alan Ozhbolt in the 1:3 home win over MS. Ashdod in early February. The negative club record was set about three years ago with 677 minutes without a goal, so it can be broken in the 35th minute.
* The longest drought in the days of the Premier League: Maccabi Petah Tikva with 829 minutes without a goal during the 2007/08 season. The overall record in the first league: 1,070 minutes of Mahane Yehuda in the double season 1966/68.
* Hapoel Petah Tikva is the worst away team in the league (only five points out of a possible 42). Its last away win in the senior league was 2:4 in Ashdod in May 2015.
Sunday, 19:00: Hapoel Jerusalem - Maccabi Petah Tikva
* The last time that Maccabi Petah Tikva beat Hapoel Jerusalem in a Teddi league game (historical) was during the relegation season of the Reds more than 24 years ago, when Kfir Privateli and the ex-ace Tobi scored 0:2 in February 2000.
* The Malaves have lost in the last three visits to Hapoel Jerusalem As part of the Premier League and also in the last three visits to Beitar, so the last league win in Teddi was 1:2 over Beitar in November 2020. Muhammad Hindi decided then.
* Hapoel Jerusalem started the season with nine games without a win, followed by five without a loss (four wins and a draw) and then five without a win (four losses and a draw). She is now on a streak of eight without a loss (five wins and three draws).
* Hapoel Jerusalem is on a streak of three home victories, for the second time this season. She hasn't had four since she left the National.
Sunday, 19:45: Hapoel Haifa - Maccabi Bnei Rayna
* Hapoel Haifa in a streak of three league losses. She hasn't had four since April-May 2022.
* Bnei Rayna is the only one to beat both Haifa teams away from home this season (in both cases 1:2) and in fact has not yet lost to Hapoel Haifa as a guest: two draws (1:1 in the Toto Cup and 0:0 in the league) and as mentioned the victory in the first round.
* Raina is the only perfect player in the top playoffs and will try to record three consecutive victories for the first time in her days in the Premier League. In the previous five cases that she had two wins, then lost or ended in a draw in the next game.
* Guy Melamed with 12 league goals this season. Another goal will be a new personal record and will also set a record for any Hapoel Haifa player in the last 10 years (currently he is equal to Alon Turgeman and Eden Ben Best who scored 12 league goals each in 2017/18).
* Benny Reina remains the only team that has not been whistled for a penalty this season. The last penalty was by Mark Costa, who scored 0:1 in Petah Tikva against Beitar Jerusalem in the lower playoffs about 11 months ago.
Sunday, 20:00: MS. Ashdod - Maccabi Netanya (Sport2)
* There were 63 meetings between the teams in the Premier League, with Maccabi Netanya having an advantage of 24:28 in victories, and another 11 draw results.
* The last 12 meetings in all formats, including last year's cup semi-final where Maccabi Netanya won 1:3, came to a decision (seven Netanya victories, including an active streak of four, compared to MS Ashdod's five). The last draw: 0:0 in Ashdod in February 2020.
* All the last 11 home games of M.S. Ashdod were decided: four wins and seven losses.
* The 0:2 in Ashdod last month is Maccabi Netanya's only victory in the last 10 rounds. It had a single draw (0:0 in Teddi against Beitar) and eight losses.
* Marko Belbul, who beat Maccabi Haifa in the cup in his first game as coach of Maccabi Netanya, will now make his debut in the league and meet an opponent he has never lost to: six wins and four draws.
Monday, 20:30: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Maccabi Tel Aviv
* There were 130 league games between the teams, with Maccabi Tel Aviv leading 31:62 in victories, including the last four. Another 37 games were not decided.
* In all the frames, this is a yellow streak of six victories, since Hapoel Beer Sheva won 0:2 in Turner in October 2022, with goals from Adrian Fawn and Rotam Hatuel.
* Maccabi Tel Aviv has not had three consecutive away victories in Beer Sheva within the league since 2009-2011, back in the Vasermil days.
* Hapoel Beer Sheva has scored 25 points from the last 27 at home (eight wins and a draw), since the 1:0 loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv on December 20.
* Maccabi Tel Aviv is the best away team in the league this season, with 32 points out of a possible 39. They lost only to Maccabi Haifa (the only one that beat them in the league) and ended in a draw two more times.