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- Al-Qasim have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Iraqi League
- Naft have the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Iraqi League
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Al-Qasim form and stats
Al-Qasim's struggle is real here at Karbala Stadium with only 5 points collected from 7 Iraqi League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-4. Al-Qasim has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager and the players.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 210 minutes without scoring a league goal. Usengimana was the last player to find the net.
The followers are hoping that Al-Qasim will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the game against Al Diwaniya (placed 20th).
Ahead of that match, Al-Qasim lost 0-2 at home to Al Shorta.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Al-Qasim as they are travelling to their away game against Naft Al-Wasat in the Iraqi League. That match is four days after this one.
The lack of attacking qualities in Al-Qasim means that they have only scored {3 goals} in 7 league home games, less than half a goal per match.
Naft form and stats
There's been little loot from Naft's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 8 away games in the Iraqi League. Naft only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 3 draws.
Two travels in a row for Naft, whose coach could celebrate last time after the win against Al Najaf. That win felt nice as this team had gone three league fixtures without victory.
A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Newroz SC.The visitors have scored 6 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Naft have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Naft have won or drawn the last 4 fixtures (2-2-0) against Al-Qasim.Al-Qasim missing players
Naft missing players
| Al-Qasim | Naft | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 7 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 16 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 11 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 18 | 7 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 12 | 23 |
| 81% | 71% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 89% | 88% |
| 50% | 43% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 56% | 69% |
| 38% | 29% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | 50% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 38% | 29% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | 62% |
| 31% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 22% | 19% |
| 50% | 71% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 44% | 31% |
| 3.6 | 3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.8 | 5.7 |
| 2.2 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 3.2 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7.6 | 8 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 7.8 | 7.1 |
| 2.2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.5 | 1.9 |
| 36% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 30% | 42% |
| 6.6 | 11 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 11 | 8 |
| 1.6 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.5 | 2.9 |
- Al-Qasim have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Al-Qasim have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Iraqi League
- Al-Qasim have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Naft have scored at least twice as many goals away as Al-Qasim have scored home.
- Naft have the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Iraqi 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 | Al Talaba | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 33 |
| 2 | Al Quwa Al Jawiya | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 32 |
| 3 | Al Kahrabaa | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 32 |
| 4 | Al Zawra'a | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 31 |
| 5 | Al Shorta | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 29 |
| 6 | Duhok | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 27 |
| 7 | Al Najaf | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 25 |
| 8 | Naft Maysan | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 25 |
| 9 | Naft Al-Basra | 16 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 23 |
| 10 | Al Karkh | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 21 |
| 11 | Al Hudod | 16 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 21 |
| 12 | Newroz SC | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | -2 | 20 |
| 13 | Zakho | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 18 |
| 14 | Naft Al-Wasat | 16 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -1 | 18 |
| 15 | Karbala | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 17 |
| 16 | Erbil | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -9 | 14 |
| 17 | Al-Qasim | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | -7 | 13 |
| 18 | Naft | 15 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -8 | 10 |
| 19 | Al Sinaah | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -13 | 9 |
| 20 | Al Diwaniya | 16 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 | -20 | 6 |
