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Competition: Kuwait Premier League
Competition: Sun 31.January
Match begins: 16:05 (UTC)
Venue: Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium (21500 seats)

Al Sahel will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 7 points behind Al Kuwait.

Insights:
  • Al Kuwait has the most scored goals in the first half (17) in Premier League

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Al Sahel form and stats

Al Sahel's results here at Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium in the Premier League have been very modest with 1 victory, 1 draw and 5 defeats.

Sahel have scored 4 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. Sahel's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 7 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Al Kuwait form and stats

The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 4 wins, 1 draw and only 1 loss in the Premier League. It’s been three wins in a row for Al Kuwait on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.

A loss against Burgan was the result prior to that, in a home game.

After this away game Kuwait return home for a Premier League game against Khaitan. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The Kuwait manager W. Nassar Mobarak has got the team scoring on the road, with 13 away goals in 6 league matches. 7 goals have been conceded by Kuwait in these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Sahel - Al Kuwait 0-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Sahel won zero games, zero matches ended with a draw and Al Kuwait has ten wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three

Al Sahel missing players

Al Kuwait missing players

Al Sahel Al Kuwait
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
15 7 4 Played P 0 6 15
6 1 0 Won W 0 4 7
2 1 1 Drew D 0 1 4
7 5 3 Lost L 0 1 4
17 4 1 Scored S 0 13 26
16 7 4 Conceded C 0 7 17
93% 86% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 93%
60% 43% 25% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 83% 80%
40% 29% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 60%
20% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 40%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 13%
40% 14% 25% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 67%
27% 29% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 33%
40% 71% 75% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 7%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1 0.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.8 2.7
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
2.6 1.7 1.8 Shots (avg) S ( 0 11.7 9.9
1 0.7 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4.8 4.7
125% 100% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 45% 35%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Al Kuwait has the most scored goals in the first half (17) in Premier League
  • Al Kuwait have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Kuwait have scored at least twice as many goals away as Al Sahel have scored home.
  • Al Kuwait have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Al Kuwait 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 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.