About Match
Maccabi Tel Aviv go into the game 1st in the table on 9 points; Hapoel Petah Tikva sit 9th on 3 — a 6-point gap. Per game in the league, Maccabi Tel Aviv score 4 and conceding 1.33, Hapoel Petah Tikva 0.67 and 1, against a competition average of 1.5 goals per team per game. Three points here take Hapoel Petah Tikva to 6 and up to 3rd, assuming other results stand.
Five consecutive wins precede this game for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Recent form is uneven: 15/15 points for Maccabi Tel Aviv, 3/15 for Hapoel Petah Tikva.
7 meetings are on record — 4 won by Maccabi Tel Aviv, 0 by Hapoel Petah Tikva, 3 drawn, at 3.14 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 29% of the meetings went to the host. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 71% of the meetings.
Bloomfield Stadium in Petah Tikva, capacity 29,150, hosts the game.