Game information for Azadegan League: Esteghlal Mollasani - Saipa at Ahvāz Takhti

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Competition: Iran Azadegan League
Competition: Sat 31.December
Match begins: 10:30 (UTC)
Venue: Ahvāz Takhti (51000 seats)

Saipa travel to Esteghlal Mollasani and Ahvāz Takhti loaded with hope and confidence, but the host team is hard to beat. More information on the match here!

Insights:
  • Esteghlal Mollasani have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Saipa is in the best form (5-1-0) in Azadegan League

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Esteghlal Mollasani form and stats

Esteghlal Mollasani have collected 10 points from their Azadegan League home games so far after 1-7-0. Three draws in a row here at Ahvāz Takhti for Esteghlal Mollasani, who might be willing to risk more at some point in hope of a win.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 450 minutes without scoring a league goal. Niyayeshpoor was the last player to find the net.

No payout for Esteghlal Mollasani in their previous match, an away game at Van Pars Isfahan that ended in defeat 0-2.

Before that, Esteghlal Mollasani drew at home versus Mes Shahr-e Babak.

It should be taken into account that a look at the 10 most recent league matches shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Esteghlal have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Saipa form and stats

The visitors are W2-D4-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Azadegan League. The fact that Saipa have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.

The Saipa goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 213 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Saipa are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the fixture against Shahrdari Hamedan (placed 9th).

Preceding that game was the away victory against Khooshe Talaee Saveh with the score of 1-0.

Few goals the story here? 12 of this team's latest 15 league matches have had two or less goals.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Saipa's away games in the league this season with only {3 goals} from 7 matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (5 so far). It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head to head totals (for the previous two meetings): Esteghlal won one game, one match ended in a draw and Saipa managed zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / one.

Esteghlal Mollasani missing players

Saipa missing players

Esteghlal Mollasani Saipa
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
16 8 5 Played P 1 7 15
5 1 0 Won W 1 2 8
8 7 5 Drew D 0 4 4
3 0 0 Lost L 0 1 3
16 8 4 Scored S 1 3 13
14 6 4 Conceded C 0 5 9
75% 62% 40% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 57% 80%
62% 62% 40% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 29% 33%
25% 12% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 14% 20%
12% 12% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 13%
6% 12% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
31% 50% 40% BTTS BTTS 0% 14% 20%
50% 50% 60% Clean Sheets C S 100% 71% 60%
44% 38% 60% Failed to Score F T 0% 57% 40%
 
2.6 2 1.8 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0.8 1.8
3.1 2.5 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 0 2.8 3.3
2.1 1.7 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.2 1.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.7 9.6 6.3 Shots (avg) S ( 0 4 6.4
1.3 0.6 0.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 1.7 2.4
50% 67% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 40% 32%
 
8.2 6.6 6.7 Shots against (avg) S A 0 8.7 6.5
1.8 1 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4.7 2.6
Key stats in Azadegan League this season:
  • Esteghlal Mollasani have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Esteghlal Mollasani have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Saipa have scored away.
  • Esteghlal Mollasani have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Saipa have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Saipa have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Saipa is in the best form (5-1-0) in Azadegan League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Caspian Qazvin 16 10 4 2 35 13 8 8 0 0 27 5 8 2 4 2 8 8 22 34
2 Saipa 15 8 4 3 13 9 8 6 0 2 10 4 7 2 4 1 3 5 4 28
3 Pars Jam Bushehr 15 7 5 3 13 13 7 4 2 1 7 4 8 3 3 2 6 9 0 26
4 Kheybar Khorramabad 15 5 10 0 16 5 8 2 6 0 8 2 7 3 4 0 8 3 11 25
5 Fajr Sepasi 15 6 7 2 14 9 7 4 2 1 9 3 8 2 5 1 5 6 5 25
6 Mes Shahr-e Babak 15 5 9 1 11 6 8 4 4 0 7 2 7 1 5 1 4 4 5 24
7 Esteghlal Khuzestan 15 4 9 2 20 11 8 3 5 0 11 1 7 1 4 2 9 10 9 21
8 Esteghlal Mollasani 15 4 8 3 13 14 8 1 7 0 8 6 7 3 1 3 5 8 -1 20
8 Qashqai 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
9 Shahrdari Hamedan 15 4 6 5 8 7 7 4 2 1 6 1 8 0 4 4 2 6 1 18
10 Khooshe Talaee Saveh 15 4 6 5 10 13 7 2 3 2 4 3 8 2 3 3 6 10 -3 18
11 Van Pars Isfahan 15 4 5 6 13 15 7 2 4 1 8 6 8 2 1 5 5 9 -2 17
12 Arman Gohar 15 3 7 5 15 19 8 2 4 2 10 11 7 1 3 3 5 8 -4 16
13 Darya Babol 15 3 6 6 7 10 8 2 4 2 6 4 7 1 2 4 1 6 -3 15
14 Chadormalu SC 15 3 6 6 9 15 7 2 2 3 5 7 8 1 4 3 4 8 -6 15
15 Shahrdari Astara 15 2 8 5 5 10 6 2 3 1 3 2 9 0 5 4 2 8 -5 14
16 Khalij Fars 15 1 5 9 5 19 8 1 3 4 3 9 7 0 2 5 2 10 -14 8
17 Chooka Talesh 15 0 5 10 9 28 8 0 4 4 5 9 7 0 1 6 4 19 -19 5
18 Omid Vahdat 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Shahin Bandar Ameri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Padideh Khorasan 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0