On the 23rd of January, in this week 19 match, Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv will play a match in Netanya in a meeting of these two evenly matched Ligat ha’Al teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 17 degrees, a perfect day for football. Maccabi Tel Aviv is fresh off their 2-2 draw against Beitar Jerusalem. Yarden Shua struck first for Beitar Jerusalem in the 29th minute on a penalty kick, then in the 40th minute, Geraldes sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Eran Zahavi . With 21 points in their last 10 matches Maccabi Tel Aviv should be reasonably happy with their performance, while maccabi Haifa sits at 1st place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-1 win against Hapoel Katamon. Abdoulaye Seck scored the first goal for Maccabi Haifa in the 2nd minute, then Guy Badash tied it up for Hapoel Katamon in the 15th minute. Maccabi Haifa is on a hot streak lately, having won 10 of their last 10 matches.
On Oct 1st, Maccabi Haifa hosted Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in their last match together. Maccabi Haifa won by a score of 2 to 0. Dean David scored the first goal for Maccabi Haifa in the 84th minute, then Dean David added another in the 1st minute of the second half’s stoppage time on a feed from Tjaronn Chery In the end, Maccabi Tel Aviv couldn’t muster any offence and Maccabi Haifa ran away with the shutout win.
Maccabi Haifa is fortunate enough to have Dean David in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored 6 goals. Maccabi Tel Aviv is glad to have Eran Zahavi in top form. In the last 5 matches the attacker has scored 5 goals.