Professional League: Saham - Bahla preview and statistics

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Competition: Oman Professional League
Competition: Thu 07.April
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Sohar Regional Sports Complex (39000 seats)

These teams have both struggled so far, but a win and three points in this very important match would certainly help. Prepare for Saham - Bahla!

Insights:
  • Saham have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Professional League
  • Bahla have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There have been limited time to rest for the host team, as they played a Professional League match only four days back. That game was an away game at Al-Ittihad, so at least Saham are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Saham form and stats

Saham's struggle is real here at Sohar Regional Sports Complex with only 6 points collected from 9 Professional League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-6-3. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 17 attempts.

The home team returns to Sohar Regional Sports Complex after drawing with Al-Ittihad (placed 11th) on their last time out; the game ended 0-0.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Sohar.

Saham have scored 4 goals here in 9 league matches, a depressing statistic. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Saham are not conceding a lot of goals here at Sohar Regional Sports Complex in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 9 matches. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. Saham has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.

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Bahla form and stats

Bahla have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Professional League, after 1-3-5 (9 played). The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Bahla, who have now gone 14 games without a victory. The Al Suwaiq game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.

This game can not go any worse than the previous one, the home defeat versus Al-Musannah with 1-2 on the scoreboard.

Before that, Bahla travelled to Al Suwaiq and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Bahla as they have only managed to score 7 times from 9 away games in the league. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Bahla have conceded 12 goals in these away matches. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Bahla - Saham 1-1 was the score in these sides' last head to head match, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Saham one win, two draws and Bahla one victory. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Saham missing players

Bahla missing players

Saham Bahla
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 9 3 Played P 2 9 17
0 0 0 Won W 0 1 2
8 6 2 Drew D 0 3 6
9 3 1 Lost L 2 5 9
9 4 1 Scored S 1 7 15
25 7 2 Conceded C 3 12 23
76% 67% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
65% 44% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 65%
41% 11% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 44% 35%
12% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 11% 12%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
53% 44% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 56% 59%
24% 33% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 18%
47% 56% 67% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 29%
 
2.1 1 0 Corners for (avg) C F 5 3.4 2.6
5.2 3.8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.1 3.7
1.5 1.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2 1.5
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
5.4 4 0 Shots (avg) S ( 4 6.5 5
1.7 1.3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 2.2 1.6
35% 50% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 46% 54%
 
7.8 9.3 0 Shots against (avg) S A 8 7.3 6
2.6 0.7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 2.3 2
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Bahla have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Bahla have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Saham have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Saham have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Saham have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Professional League
  • Saham have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Saham have yet to win a game.

  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 17 10 5 2 32 12 8 6 1 1 21 4 9 4 4 1 11 8 20 35
2 Dhofar 17 10 5 2 27 11 8 5 3 0 19 6 9 5 2 2 8 5 16 35
3 Al-Nahda 17 10 5 2 24 9 9 6 2 1 17 5 8 4 3 1 7 4 15 35
4 Al Nasr 17 8 6 3 17 12 9 4 4 1 10 6 8 4 2 2 7 6 5 30
5 Al-Rustaq 17 8 5 4 20 13 9 4 2 3 10 6 8 4 3 1 10 7 7 29
6 Al-Musannah 17 8 3 6 22 18 9 3 3 3 12 10 8 5 0 3 10 8 4 27
7 Oman Club 17 6 6 5 24 19 8 3 2 3 11 5 9 3 4 2 13 14 5 24
8 Sohar 17 6 5 6 19 24 9 4 2 3 11 8 8 2 3 3 8 16 -5 23
9 Al Suwaiq 17 5 6 6 17 15 8 2 4 2 8 7 9 3 2 4 9 8 2 21
10 Muscat 17 4 4 9 15 23 8 2 0 6 9 13 9 2 4 3 6 10 -8 16
11 Al-Ittihad 17 2 7 8 8 25 9 1 4 4 4 10 8 1 3 4 4 15 -17 13
12 Bahla 17 2 6 9 15 23 8 1 3 4 8 11 9 1 3 5 7 12 -8 12
13 Nizwa 17 2 5 10 6 26 8 1 2 5 3 10 9 1 3 5 3 16 -20 11
14 Saham 17 0 8 9 9 25 9 0 6 3 4 7 8 0 2 6 5 18 -16 8

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.