📏 Form Guide

Maccabi Netanya

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Maccabi Netanya prepare for this match after a 0-0 Ligat HaAl tied result vs FC Ashdod.

Maccabi Netanya have not been in good attacking form of late. Their sum of goals stands at just 4 versus opposing sides over their previous 6 matches. In those games, Maccabi Netanya have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them total 8.

Hapoel Jerusalem

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Hapoel Jerusalem will go into the game after a 2-0 Ligat HaAl win against Maccabi Petah Tikva in their last match.

For Hapoel Jerusalem, the goals were scored by Matan Hozez (79') and Jelle Duin (87').

A series of outstanding showings from the Hapoel Jerusalem defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 3 from their last 6 fixtures overall. Over that same period, their forwards have scored 9. That kind of pattern might not be continued here, though.

Pre-game facts show that Hapoel Jerusalem:

• are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches away from home.
• are without an away win for the past 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 17/10/2022 shows us that Maccabi Netanya have won 3 of them and Hapoel Jerusalem 2, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

A total of 16 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 for The Diamonds and 7 belonging to Hapoel Jerusalem. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The last league fixture between these clubs was Ligat HaAl match day 17 on 16/01/2024 and the score finished Maccabi Netanya 2-1 Hapoel Jerusalem.

ℹ️ Team News: Maccabi Netanya

The Maccabi Netanya boss Ren Kozuk does not have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash with a completely injury-free squad available for selection.

📰 Team News: Hapoel Jerusalem

Owing to an otherwise full-strength group of players, there’s only the sole fitness issue for the Hapoel Jerusalem manager Ziv Arie to contend with. Maksim Grechkin (Ankle injury) won’t be in action.

✨ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Hapoel Jerusalem might need a bit of good fortune to score goals against this Maccabi Netanya team who we think should score at least once to gain the upper hand.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a hard-fought 1-0 winning margin for Maccabi Netanya at the end of the 90 minutes.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 14:06 20/04/2024