Premier League match preview: Al Qadsia versus Al Nasar

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Competition: Kuwait Premier League
Competition: Thu 03.September
Match begins: 17:45 (UTC)
Venue: Mohammed Al-Hammad Stadium (22000 seats)

Al Qadsia perform at a high level so far being 2nd in the table. Al Nasar can look both up and down from their 6th position.

It's no vacation for neither Qadsia nor Al Nasar 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.

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Al Qadsia form and stats

Al Qadsia are steadily winning Premier League games and points here at Mohammed Al-Hammad Stadium. 5 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 8 games. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Mohammed Al-Hammad Stadium.

The Qadsia goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 221 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.

Qadsia enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Kazma's place. The match ended 1-0. Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Al Shabab.

Qadsia can score goals in their home matches. After 8 league matches they have found the net 18 times. Defensively Al Qadsia have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (4 in 8 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Al Nasar form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Al Nasar so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-4 (win-draw-lose).

The supporters enjoyed Nasar's previous game versus Al Tadhamon (placed 9th), a Premier League 2-1 win played at home. A 0-1 defeat away at Al Arabi before that.

Nasar have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 8 league away games 8 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Al Nasar have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Al Nasar - Qadsia 0-2 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Qadsia five wins, two draws and Al Nasar three victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

QadsiaA. Al Dhefiri
A. Al Dhefiri
1 goals
Al QadsiaB. Al Mutawa
B. Al Mutawa
1 goals
Al QadsiaE. Al Rashedi
E. Al Rashedi
1 goals

Al Qadsia missing players

Al Nasar missing players

Al Qadsia Al Nasar
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 8 2 Played P 2 8 17
10 5 2 Won W 0 2 5
6 3 0 Drew D 0 2 3
1 0 0 Lost L 2 4 9
29 18 5 Scored S 0 8 17
10 4 1 Conceded C 3 9 22
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
82% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 65%
29% 38% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 35%
18% 25% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 24%
6% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 6%
41% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 38% 47%
53% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 12%
12% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 41%
 
5.3 6.6 6 Corners for (avg) C F 1 2.9 4.3
2.8 3.4 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 7.5 5 4.2
2.3 2.5 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.1 2.2
4 2 1 Red cards R C 0 3 4
 
156 111 33 Total Shots T S 16 63 140
68 41 14 Shots on Target S O 5 20 52
37% 44% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 30% 29%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Al Nasar has the fewest scored goals in the second half (8)
  • Al Nasar have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Al Nasar haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Al Qadsia has the fewest conceded goals (4) at home
  • Al Qadsia has the fewest conceded goals (9)
  • Al Qadsia has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2)
  • Al Qadsia has the most dropped points from leading position (11)
  • Al Qadsia have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Al Qadsia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Qadsia have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Al Qadsia have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Al Nasar have scored away.
  • Al Qadsia have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Al Qadsia have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Al Qadsia haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • All of Al Qadsia's home-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 4 1 44 11 9 6 2 1 25 7 8 6 2 0 19 4 33 40
2 Al Qadsia 17 11 6 0 32 9 8 5 3 0 18 4 9 6 3 0 14 5 23 39
3 Al Salmiyah 17 9 2 6 37 27 9 4 1 4 18 17 8 5 1 2 19 10 10 29
4 Al Arabi 17 8 4 5 24 21 9 6 0 3 13 8 8 2 4 2 11 13 3 28
5 Kazma 17 8 1 8 25 24 9 5 0 4 14 9 8 3 1 4 11 15 1 25
6 Al Nasar 17 5 3 9 17 22 9 3 1 5 9 13 8 2 2 4 8 9 -5 18
7 Al Sahel 17 4 6 7 15 32 8 1 4 3 6 13 9 3 2 4 9 19 -17 18
8 Al Shabab 17 4 5 8 16 27 8 1 4 3 10 16 9 3 1 5 6 11 -11 17
9 Al Tadhamon 17 3 4 10 21 37 9 2 2 5 9 15 8 1 2 5 12 22 -16 13
10 Yarmouk 17 1 5 11 14 35 7 0 3 4 7 14 10 1 2 7 7 21 -21 8

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.