📏 Form Guide

FC Ashdod

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FC Ashdod will be looking for a repeat result of the 0-1 Ligat HaAl triumph vs Maccabi Petah Tikva.

The only name on the scoresheet from FC Ashdod was Jordan Botaka (33').

It has been all too rare in recent games where FC Ashdod have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that FC Ashdod have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 10 goals along the way. Still, we must now wait to see whether that trend might be replicated in this upcoming match or not.

Maccabi Netanya

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Beitar Jerusalem in Ligat HaAl competition, Maccabi Netanya will be hoping to turn things around here.

Ismaila Soro (6') scored for Beitar Jerusalem.

Ren Kozuk's Maccabi Netanya have found the back of the net a total of 5 times in the course of their most recent six matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during those same matches equals 13.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head meetings dating back to 12/11/2022 shows that FC Ashdod have won 2 of these games and Maccabi Netanya 4, with the tally of drawn matches being 0.

A combined total of 17 goals were produced between them in this period, with 7 of them from The Dolphins and 10 created by The Diamonds. The average goals per game has been 2.83.

The last league meeting between the two was Ligat HaAl match day 25 on 09/03/2024 and the score finished FC Ashdod 0-2 Maccabi Netanya.

📰 Team News: FC Ashdod

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just a single fitness concern for the FC Ashdod manager Ran Ben Shimon to be concerned with due to a largely intact group of players. Ebenezer Mamatah (Meniscus injury) will miss out.

ℹ️ Team News: Maccabi Netanya

Due to a completely healthy group available to choose from, the Maccabi Netanya manager Ren Kozuk doesn’t have any fitness worries at all ahead of this match.

💡 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, FC Ashdod will need to push hard to breach the defence of this Maccabi Netanya lineup who we think should get the vital goal that wins it.

We’ve gone for a narrow 0-1 winning margin for Maccabi Netanya at the end of the 90 minutes.

Let’s see.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 16:03 14/04/2024