In this 18th week match, on Saturday Jan 14th, Hapoel Haifa and Maccabi Netanya will play a match in Netanya in a meeting of these two closely matched Ligat ha’Al teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 15 degrees, a perfect day for football. 10th placed Maccabi Netanya is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Bnei Sakhnin. Neither Maccabi Netanya nor Bnei Sakhnin could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 0 and 0 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,. Maccabi Netanya is looking for direction having 3 win and 5 losses in their last 10 matches, while hapoel Haifa is fresh off their 3-0 shutout win against Hapoel Hadera. Gidi Kanuk struck first for Hapoel Haifa in the 24th minute, then Tomer Yosefi added another in the 72nd minute on a feed from Serdal In the end, Hapoel Hadera couldn’t muster any offence and Hapoel Haifa ran away with the shutout win. Hapoel Haifa is looking for direction having 3 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
In their last match on Sat Sep 17th, Hapoel Haifa and Maccabi Netanya battled to a 0-0 draw. Neither Hapoel Haifa nor Maccabi Netanya could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 4 and 17 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a 0 – 0 draw,.
Both Arel and Serdal have been the hottest scorers for Hapoel Haifa in the last five each having scored 2 goals. Igor Zlatanović has been on a hot streak lately. In the last 5 games, the attacker has scored 4 goals for Maccabi Netanya.