Match Report
The table gap was wide: 18 points between Maccabi Netanya (6th, 45 pts) and Hapoel Hadera (8th, 27 pts). Hapoel Hadera ranked just 17th in the league on five-round form despite their 8th table position. Against a league average of 1.43 goals per team per game, Maccabi Netanya ran at 1.42 scored and 1.61 conceded, Hapoel Hadera at 0.94 and 1.73.
Hapoel Hadera had gone 5 games without a win. The five-game form split read 9/15 points for Maccabi Netanya against 2/15 for Hapoel Hadera.
11 meetings are on record — 4 won by Maccabi Netanya, 3 by Hapoel Hadera, 4 drawn, at 3.73 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 18% of those meetings. The fixture leans high-scoring: 73% of meetings brought at least three goals, and both sides scored in 91%. Goals have risen lately: 4.6 per game across the last five meetings, against 3.73 across the full history.
The venue was Netanya Stadium (Netanya) in Netanya, with room for 13,800 spectators. It was 1-1 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 2-1 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Maccabi Netanya: Freddy Vargas (13'), Yuval Sade (63') · Hapoel Hadera: Ibrahim Sangaré (22')