Match Report
Maccabi K. Ata Bialik went into the game 3rd in the table on 38 points; Tzeirei Umm al-Fahm sat 10th on 29 — a 9-point gap. The last five rounds placed Maccabi K. Ata Bialik no better than 10th for form, against 3rd in the standings. Per game in the league, Maccabi K. Ata Bialik were scoring 1.59 and conceding 0.95, Tzeirei Umm al-Fahm 1.33 and 1.14, against a competition average of 1.39 goals per team per game.
Maccabi K. Ata Bialik arrived on a run of seven straight wins, having scored in 8 consecutive games. Recent form was uneven: 15/15 points for Maccabi K. Ata Bialik, 6/15 for Tzeirei Umm al-Fahm.
4 meetings are on record — 3 won by Maccabi K. Ata Bialik, 1 by Tzeirei Umm al-Fahm, 0 drawn, at 2.75 goals per meeting. Only 25% of these meetings ended in a home win. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 75% of the meetings.
Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-1.