In a weekend match on Sun Nov 28th, in week 10, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa will play a match in Petach-Tikva in a meeting of these two evenly matched Ligat ha’Al teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 22 degrees, a perfect day for football. In their last match, Hapoel Tel Aviv recorded a 1-1 draw against Maccabi Tel Aviv. Davida struck first for Hapoel Tel Aviv in the 9th minute on a feed from Dan Einbinder, then Brandley Kuwas tied it up for Maccabi Tel Aviv in the 75th minute squeezing out at least the one point for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Hapoel Tel Aviv is looking for direction having earned 16 points in their last 10 matches, while 2nd placed Maccabi Haifa is fresh off their 4-0 shutout win against Ironi Kiryat Shmona. Dean David scored the first goal for Maccabi Haifa in the 16th minute, then Mohammad Abu Fani added another in the 43rd minute In the end, Ironi Kiryat Shmona couldn’t muster any offence and Maccabi Haifa ran away with the shutout win. Maccabi Haifa should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 18 points in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season Maccabi Haifa won the head to head battle with 2 wins.
Maccabi Haifa’s most prolific scorer has been Dolev Haziza. He has netted three goals over the last five matches. Hapoel Tel Aviv is glad to have Davida in top form. In the last 5 matches the attacker has scored four goals.