About Match
3 points for Ironi Kiryat Shmona (8th), 6 for Maccabi Petah Tikva (3rd): a 3-point gap. In league terms the two rates read 1.67/2 for Ironi Kiryat Shmona and 1.67/1.33 for Maccabi Petah Tikva (scored/conceded per game); the competition average is 1.5. A win would lift Ironi Kiryat Shmona to 6 points and up to 3rd, overtaking Maccabi Petah Tikva (other results unchanged).
Ironi Kiryat Shmona have banked 6 of the last 15 points on offer; Maccabi Petah Tikva, 12.
The sides have met 10 times in the GioScore results database: 4 wins for Ironi Kiryat Shmona, 2 draws and 4 for Maccabi Petah Tikva, at 2.7 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 70% of the meetings.
Kiryat-Shmona Municipal Stadium in Kiryat-Shmona stages the fixture, a ground that holds 5,300.




