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Competition: Oman Professional League
Competition: Thu 21.April
Match begins: 18:15 (UTC)
Venue: Al-Seeb Stadium (14000 seats)

There is optimism in Al Seeb so far, with their 1st spot in the Professional League table and looking forward to facing Al-Rustaq (who are placed 6th).

Insights:
  • Al Seeb have the most scored goals (40) in Professional League
  • Al-Rustaq have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It's no vacation for neither Seeb nor Al-Rustaq 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 Seeb form and stats

Al Seeb have performed here at Al-Seeb Stadium this season with 7 wins from 9 Professional League matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 1 game and lost 1. Al Seeb has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Al-Seeb Stadium. We remember; it was Al Suwaiq.

It's back home for Seeb, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Al-Ittihad away with the result 4-1.

Before that match, a win away at Oman Club.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Al Seeb, as the Professional League home game vs Bahla is only four days away.

Goals decide football matches and Al Seeb are scoring many of them at home; 22 on target from 9 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Al Seeb have only let in 4 goals at home.

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Al-Rustaq form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Professional League travels is 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. Al-Rustaq has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Hamrashdi was the last player to score for the away team. Al-Rustaq haven't scored a league goal in the last 216 minutes.

Al-Rustaq play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-2 to Oman Club (placed 7th).

Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Nizwa.

A new game in only four days for Al-Rustaq, the Professional League home match versus Al Suwaiq. Busy days.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Al-Rustaq have scored 11 goals in 10 league games away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Al-Rustaq have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The last head-to-head encounter ended Al-Rustaq - Al Seeb 0-1, earlier this season. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's four Al Seeb victories, one draw and zero Al-Rustaq wins. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Al Seeb missing players

Al-Rustaq missing players

Al Seeb Al-Rustaq
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 9 4 Played P 1 10 20
13 7 2 Won W 0 4 8
5 1 1 Drew D 0 3 6
2 1 1 Lost L 1 3 6
40 22 3 Scored S 0 11 21
13 4 3 Conceded C 4 11 17
85% 89% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 80%
70% 78% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 70% 60%
45% 56% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 40%
30% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 20% 10%
25% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
30% 11% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 30% 30%
60% 78% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 50%
25% 22% 50% Failed to Score F T 100% 40% 40%
 
4.8 4 5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5.7 4.1
2.3 2.4 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 1 3 3.2
1.3 0.9 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
7.4 7.5 4.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10 6 7.6
3.3 3.5 1.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.7 2.9
72% 71% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 27% 41%
 
4.2 4.4 3 Shots against (avg) S A 8 3.7 5.3
1.2 1.4 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 2.7 2.4
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Al Seeb have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Seeb have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Al Seeb have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in Professional League
  • Al Seeb have the most clean sheets (7) at home in Professional League
  • Al Seeb have the most scored goals (40) in Professional League
  • Al Seeb have the most scored goals in the first half (19) in Professional League
  • Al Seeb have the the best goal difference (+18) at home in Professional League
  • Al Seeb have the the best goal difference (+27) in Professional League
  • Al Seeb have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Al-Rustaq have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al-Rustaq have won significantly more corners away than at home.

  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 Seeb 20 13 5 2 40 13 9 7 1 1 22 4 11 6 4 1 18 9 27 44
2 Al-Nahda 20 12 6 2 29 11 11 7 3 1 21 7 9 5 3 1 8 4 18 42
3 Dhofar 20 11 7 2 32 13 10 6 4 0 23 7 10 5 3 2 9 6 19 40
4 Al-Musannah 20 10 4 6 26 20 10 4 3 3 14 11 10 6 1 3 12 9 6 34
5 Al Nasr 20 9 7 4 22 16 10 5 4 1 13 7 10 4 3 3 9 9 6 34
6 Al-Rustaq 20 8 6 6 21 17 10 4 3 3 10 6 10 4 3 3 11 11 4 30
7 Oman Club 20 7 6 7 26 24 10 4 2 4 13 8 10 3 4 3 13 16 2 27
8 Al Suwaiq 20 7 6 7 21 19 9 3 4 2 9 7 11 4 2 5 12 12 2 27
9 Sohar 20 6 7 7 21 27 11 4 4 3 13 10 9 2 3 4 8 17 -6 25
10 Muscat 20 5 4 11 18 27 10 3 0 7 12 16 10 2 4 4 6 11 -9 19
11 Nizwa 20 3 6 11 8 28 10 2 2 6 5 12 10 1 4 5 3 16 -20 15
12 Bahla 20 2 8 10 17 26 9 1 3 5 8 12 11 1 5 5 9 14 -9 14
13 Al-Ittihad 20 2 8 10 10 32 10 1 4 5 5 14 10 1 4 5 5 18 -22 14
14 Saham 20 0 10 10 11 29 11 0 8 3 5 8 9 0 2 7 6 21 -18 10

Read more about Professional League

The Oman Professional League is the top division of Omani football. It was founded in 1976 and has gone through many changes in format. The current league table has 14 teams playing each other twice to decide the champion.Only four foreign players are allowed in each team.