This Wednesday we will have the continuation of the Israeli national league, which is one of the championships that has not been stopped in this final stretch of 2023.
The competition has a total of 14 teams, where the top 6 placed advance to the title dispute phase, and the remaining participants were part of the relegation group.
Sakhnin
Sakhnin is the one who closes the qualifying zone for the title fight, in sixth place, with 14 points.
Their campaign has 3 wins, 6 draws and 2 defeats. The team also had a point removed from its classification by the Israeli federation.
One of their rare victories in the competition came in the last round, when they beat Ashdod 1-0 away from home.
This victory broke a sequence of 3 rounds without positive results.
But the team still needs to get back to building a positive result at home, and today the team has the third worst campaign in the league at home.
In 5 games they won only once, in addition to one defeat and 3 draws, scoring 7 goals and conceding the same 7 goals.
An interesting fact that we can take as a reference for this game is that in all 5 games that Sakhnin played at home, both teams scored.
Hapoel Hadera
Their opponent this Wednesday will be the Hapoel Hadera team, which is still chasing the block at the top of the table, and looking for a place in the next phase.
The team is currently in tenth place on the leaderboard, with 10 points, 4 below Sakhnin himself, who, as previously mentioned, closes the classification zone for the title dispute phase.
Hapoel Hadera has 7 defeats in 11 games, with 3 wins and a draw, only 8 goals scored and 19 conceded.
Their moment is very bad, they come from 2 consecutive defeats, losing away from home, to Hapoel Jerusalem by one to zero, and then as home team they were beaten by Maccabi Haifa, one of the main teams in the league, by 5 to 1.
It’s difficult to believe that this team can perform well away from home, especially given its terrible offensive capacity.
As a visitor so far in the championship, Hapoel Hadera has won one draw and 3 defeats, scored just 2 goals and conceded 7 in total.
Conclusion:
Although it may be a tendency for this game for both teams to score, based on the home team’s standard, betting on a line favorable to the visiting team is very dangerous.
Bookmakers place Sakhnin as the favorite, but still with high odds. Even though we can look for slightly lower odds, I believe that the home team’s handicap line, which protects the stake in the event of a draw, will be the best option for this game.