Football tips: Al Arabi SC vs Al Shabab - predictions and betting guide

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Kuwait Premier League
Competition: Sat 24.April
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sabah Al Salem Stadium (28000 seats)

Al Arabi SC and Al Shabab have both delivered a "par" performance so far, to use a golfing expression. Both hold mid-table positions in the Premier League.

Insights:
  • Al Arabi SC is in the best form (5-0-0)
  • Al Shabab have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It's no vacation for neither Arabi nor Al Shabab as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

D W W W W

Al Arabi SC form and stats

3 victories, 0 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Al Arabi SC have to build on here at Sabah Al Salem Stadium in the Premier League. Arabi haven’t lost a league-game in eleven attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Al Nasar, 119 days ago. Ever since the Al Qadsia game Arabi has been unbeatable here at Sabah Al Salem Stadium producing four straight wins.

The Al Arabi SC goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 332 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Al Kuwait in a game that was won 1-0.

Arabi has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 13 goals have been conceded.

W D L W L

Al Shabab form and stats

4-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Al Shabab in their Premier League matches away.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Al Nasar that ended 1-1.

Shabab are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 11 times in 7 away games so far. As opposed to that, Al Shabab have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Al Shabab - Arabi 0-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Arabi seven wins, two draws and Al Shabab one victory. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Al Arabi SC missing players

Al Shabab missing players

Al Arabi SC Al Shabab
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
25 13 3 Played P 3 13 25
14 8 3 Won W 2 6 9
7 1 0 Drew D 0 2 6
4 4 0 Lost L 1 5 10
40 22 8 Scored S 5 19 31
25 19 3 Conceded C 2 19 37
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
76% 77% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 92% 80%
52% 77% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 54% 52%
24% 38% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 23% 20%
12% 23% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 15% 12%
56% 62% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 69% 64%
32% 15% 33% Clean Sheets C S 67% 23% 16%
16% 23% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 8% 24%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 2.7 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.3 1.4
4 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 5
 
9.8 10.3 13.7 Shots (avg) S ( 10 8.3 7.7
4.5 4.8 5.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.2 2.7
38% 39% 47% Goal Efficiency G E 42% 32% 30%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Al Arabi SC have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Arabi SC haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Al Arabi SC is in the best form (5-0-0)
  • Al Shabab have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Shabab haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 Nasar 14 10 2 2 26 5 6 5 1 0 12 2 8 5 1 2 14 3 21 32
2 Al Qadsia 14 10 2 2 28 14 7 6 0 1 13 5 7 4 2 1 15 9 14 32
3 Al Salmiyah 14 8 5 1 30 13 6 3 2 1 17 8 8 5 3 0 13 5 17 29
4 Kazma 14 8 4 2 22 10 6 4 2 0 13 4 8 4 2 2 9 6 12 28
5 Al Kuwait 14 7 3 4 25 16 8 3 2 3 12 9 6 4 1 1 13 7 9 24
6 Al Arabi SC 14 6 4 4 19 17 7 3 0 4 9 13 7 3 4 0 10 4 2 22
7 Al Shabab 14 6 4 4 19 18 7 2 3 2 8 10 7 4 1 2 11 8 1 22
8 Al Fahaheel 14 5 3 6 12 12 8 3 3 2 8 7 6 2 0 4 4 5 0 18
9 Khaitan 14 5 3 6 16 26 7 2 2 3 4 10 7 3 1 3 12 16 -10 18
10 Al Sahel 14 5 2 7 14 15 7 1 1 5 4 7 7 4 1 2 10 8 -1 17
11 Burgan 14 4 5 5 13 16 7 1 1 5 4 10 7 3 4 0 9 6 -3 17
12 Al Jahra 14 2 5 7 13 20 7 1 3 3 9 10 7 1 2 4 4 10 -7 11
13 Yarmouk 14 2 2 10 22 36 8 0 2 6 10 21 6 2 0 4 12 15 -14 8
14 Al Tadhamon 14 2 2 10 14 31 7 0 2 5 4 11 7 2 0 5 10 20 -17 8
15 Al Sulaibikhat 14 1 2 11 9 33 7 0 0 7 5 23 7 1 2 4 4 10 -24 5

Read more about Premier League

The Kuwait Premier League is the top division of the Kuwaiti football pyramid. It was founded in 1961 and has been dominated by the three teams Al-Qadisiya, Al-Arabi and Al-Kuwait. Ten teams play 38 fixtures each to create a final league table. The bottom two teams are relegated.