It's match two of the Professional League season and important points to play for. Don't miss our thorough preview of Nizwa-Dhofar!
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Professional League game only four days ago. That game, against Muscat, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Dhofar.
Nizwa form and stats
Last season, Nizwa's league statistics were 1 win, 4 draws and 5 losses, providing 11th spot in the Professional League. During these ten matches they scored 8 goals and gave away 15. Playing as the home side in the previous season Nizwa produced 1-3-2 (win-draw-lost) with 7 goals and 8 conceded. The home fans saw their team lose the first Professional League game of the season here at Al-Saada Stadium. Last season these fans witnessed 1 win, 3 draws and 2 losses from Nizwa's 6 home games.
The Nizwa fans got no joy from their last match, a Professional League game also here at Al-Saada Stadium: A 0-1 defeat against Al Nasr (placed 3rd).
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 2-2 versus Sohar.The manager will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Muscat in only four days.
Nizwa has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Dhofar form and stats
Let's have a look at how Dhofar performed last season in the Professional League: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 2 draws and 0 defeats. In total they scored 19 and conceded 3 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 2 and lost 0 with 11/3 goals scored/conceded. A perfect away game record so far for the visitors in the Professional League, but they have only played once. Last season their away game stats were 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats from 6 matches.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Dhofar goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 298 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Two travels in a row for Dhofar, whose manager M. Semida could celebrate last time after the Professional League win against Muscat.
A home win before that, celebrating 5-1 vs Al Suwaiq.As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Dhofar has managed 2 goals and let in 0 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
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Dhofar missing players
| Nizwa | Dhofar | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| Nizwa | Last season | Dhofar | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 10 | 6 | Played | P | 6 | 10 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8 | 7 | Scored | S | 11 | 19 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Conceded | C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 90% | ||
| 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 80% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 20% | ||
| 10% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 20% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 10% | ||
| 60% | 83% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 30% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 70% | ||
| 40% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 10% | ||
| 0.8 | 1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.3 | 7.2 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1.3 | 1.1 | ||
| 0.7 | 0.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 0.9 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 3.7 | 5.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.8 | 12 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 4.2 | ||
| 71% | 80% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 44% | ||
| 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-Nahda | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Dhofar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Al Nasr | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Bahla | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Al-Ittihad | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Al-Rustaq | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Al Seeb | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Al Suwaiq | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Saham | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Sohar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Nizwa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Oman Club | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Al-Musannah | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 14 | Muscat | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 18 | 22 |
| 2 | Dhofar | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 16 | 20 |
| 3 | Al-Musannah | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| 4 | Al Nasr | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 18 |
| 5 | Al Suwaiq | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 17 |
| 6 | Bahla | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| 7 | Al-Rustaq | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 14 |
| 8 | Al-Ittihad | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | -2 | 12 |
| 9 | Oman Club | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 11 |
| 10 | Sohar | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 8 |
| 11 | Nizwa | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -7 | 7 |
| 12 | Al-Nahda | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 13 | Muscat | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | -13 | 3 |
| 14 | Saham | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -13 | 0 |