Hapoel Iksal vs Hapoel Petah Tikva
We will turn this week to the Israeli Leumit League competition, where the match from Israel’s 2nd division will present a match between Hapoel Iksal who acted as the host to entertain Hapoel Petah Tikva at Ilut Stadium. This match also became their 3rd meeting in history where 2 previous meetings took place in this season as well as the regular season phase.
Of the two meetings Hapoel Petah Tikva was never defeated, in the first round of the regular season they met at Hapoel Petah Tikva headquarters and in the match Hapoel Iksal swept a narrow 1-0 defeat thanks to a single goal from S. Dror in the 60th minute. instead they drew 0-0 at Hapoel Iksal headquarters and certainly quite interesting because both teams had to show a different result from the previous meeting.
But unfortunately despite being fortified by their own headquarters, host Hapoel Iksal was still the worst team this season and only had 31 match day points before ensuring that they were the first team to be relegated and following Hapoel Marmorek’s team. In addition to facing this fight Hapoel Iksal did not have good capital, because they have not won in the last 11 games.
Failure in 11 matches showed how bad Hapoel Iksal was, so it was natural for many to believe that Hapoel Iksal was a great opportunity to take full points as well as the visitors. Most likely Hapoel Petah Tikva got the full points in this match.
Our Prediction: 2
Odds: 1.18