Evenly matched teams: Al Nasar vs Al Qadsia match preview

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Competition: Kuwait Premier League
Competition: Mon 25.April
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Ali Al-Salem Al-Sabah Stadium (10000 seats)

Premier League: The middle-of-the-table spots illustrates the road Al Nasar and Al Qadsia have undertaken so far. Both sides are set to play; bring it on!

Insights:
  • Al Nasar have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Qadsia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Al Nasar form and stats

Al Nasar have collected 11 points from their Premier League home games so far after 3-2-2.

The spoils were shared in Al Nasar's previous game, also at home. Visiting Al Qadsia (placed 4th) travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline.

Prior to that, an away loss at Al Tadhamon.

This is expected to be a close game, with Al Nasar perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Al Nasar as a small favourite), we find six games. Al Nasar has won two of these, drawn one and lost three.

Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 11 goals have been conceded.

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Al Qadsia form and stats

Al Qadsia's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Al Qadsia collect 15 points from their 7 away matches in the Premier League. 5 victories and 0 draws have created these points (and only 2 defeats).

The Al Qadsia goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 180 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Al Nasar (placed 6th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1.

A draw for Qadsia before that, at their own venue hosting Kazma (0-0).

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Al Qadsia in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Al Qadsia, one draw and two defeats.

Al Qadsia have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two sides face each other this season, as the statistics show this recent fixture: Al Qadsia - Nasar 1-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - one - five (Al Nasar wins - draws - Al Qadsia wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), eight had two or less.

Al Nasar missing players

Al Qadsia missing players

Al Nasar Al Qadsia
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 8 1 Played P 1 8 18
6 3 1 Won W 0 5 9
4 3 0 Drew D 0 1 4
8 2 0 Lost L 1 2 5
26 15 3 Scored S 2 15 25
24 12 2 Conceded C 3 9 21
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
72% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 78%
44% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 62% 50%
33% 50% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 25% 22%
22% 38% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 12% 11%
50% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 44%
33% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 38% 33%
22% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 28%
 
4.8 4 3 Corners for (avg) C F 2 3.2 4.4
4.3 4.5 4 Corners against (avg) C A 7 2.8 4.1
2.4 1.8 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.5 2.3
4 2 0 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
8.2 7.4 11 Shots (avg) S ( 10 11 9.2
3.2 3.3 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4.1 3.2
48% 61% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 48% 44%
 
9.7 10.7 10 Shots against (avg) S A 13 8.9 8.9
3.6 3.3 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 2.6 2.6
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Al Nasar have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Nasar have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Al Nasar have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Al Nasar haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Al Qadsia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Qadsia have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Al Qadsia haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • All of Al Nasar's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Al Qadsia's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.

  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 Kuwait 17 12 3 2 33 10 9 7 1 1 20 5 8 5 2 1 13 5 23 39
2 Kazma 17 10 5 2 22 13 8 5 2 1 9 6 9 5 3 1 13 7 9 35
3 Al Arabi SC 17 10 2 5 31 19 7 4 1 2 14 7 10 6 1 3 17 12 12 32
4 Al Qadsia 17 9 3 5 24 20 10 4 3 3 10 12 7 5 0 2 14 8 4 30
5 Al Salmiyah 17 8 4 5 28 22 9 6 1 2 14 10 8 2 3 3 14 12 6 28
6 Al Nasar 17 6 3 8 25 23 7 3 2 2 14 11 10 3 1 6 11 12 2 21
7 Al Fahaheel 17 3 6 8 13 24 9 2 3 4 8 12 8 1 3 4 5 12 -11 15
8 Al Tadhamon 17 3 4 10 29 41 8 2 2 4 14 17 9 1 2 6 15 24 -12 13
9 Yarmouk 17 3 3 11 18 32 9 2 2 5 11 18 8 1 1 6 7 14 -14 12
10 Al Shabab 17 3 3 11 9 28 9 3 1 5 6 14 8 0 2 6 3 14 -19 12

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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.