FC Ashdod vs Maccabi Petah Tikva Prediction & Betting Tips

FC Ashdod will do battle with visiting rivals Maccabi Petah Tikva at Yud-Alef Stadium in this Ligat HaAl game on Monday.

Full predictions, pre-match stats and user poll for FC Ashdod v Maccabi Petah Tikva are shown on this page - plus the latest betting odds.

📏 Form Guide

FC Ashdod DLWWLW

FC Ashdod will be looking for another win after a 0-2 Ligat HaAl victory against Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Matches involving FC Ashdod have often been absorbing encounters lately with plenty of scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum total of 26 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 4.33 goals per game) with 15 of them accredited to The Dolphins. That trend might not be continued into this match, of course.

Maccabi Petah Tikva LLWLWW

Maccabi Petah Tikva come into this match following a 2-0 Ligat HaAl win with the downing of Hapoel Kfar Saba in their last fixture.

Murad Magomedov's Maccabi Petah Tikva have turned their attacks into goals a total of 8 times throughout their most recent six matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during the equivalent period equals 10.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Maccabi Petah Tikva:

• are undefeated by FC Ashdod when they have played them away from home in the previous 5 league games. A very good run of results for them.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 19/08/2017 shows that FC Ashdod have won 1 of these and Maccabi Petah Tikva 3, with the number of drawn matches standing at 2.

15 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 7 of them for The Dolphins and 8 being from Petah Tikva. The average goals per game has been 2.5.

🧠 Prediction

It seems to us that Maccabi Petah Tikva and FC Ashdod should both be able to find the back of the net here although it’s difficult to select a clear winner.

It could well end in a draw. We therefore think that it’s going to be a hard-fought 1-1 score draw at the end of this one.

Renata Leite, 21:02 17/09/2020