Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Al-Rustaq & Al-Musannah face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Sultan Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Al-Rustaq form and stats
Al-Rustaq participated in Sultan Cup the last season, where they reached the 8th finals.Al-Rustaq have collected 7 points from their Professional League home games so far after 2-1-1.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 278 minutes.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Al-Rustaq, who played 1-1 against Al-Musannah. That match was also played at this venue
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a Professional League home game that ended 0-0 versus Oman Club.This is expected to be a close game, with Al-Rustaq perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Al-Rustaq as a small favourite), we find ten games. Al-Rustaq has won two of these, drawn six and lost two.
The Al-Rustaq fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 4 matches. Al-Rustaq are not conceding a lot of goals here in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 4 matches.
Al-Musannah form and stats
Al-Musannah was sent out of Sultan Cup in the quarter-finals last season, when Dhofar turned out to be too strong.It's gone fairly well in the Professional League away games so far for Al-Musannah with six points collected from three matches.
Al-Musannah have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper. It's been 214 minutes since they last conceded in Professional League.
Al-Musannah has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Al-Rustaq for a Sultan Cup game that ended a draw (1-1).
Before that, Al-Musannah secured a home win against Dhofar with the score 3-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found two similar matches played by Al-Musannah in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Al-Musannah, zero draws and zero defeats.
The visiting Al-Musannah have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 3 goals from 3 games. 3 goals have been conceded by Al-Musannah in these games.
Head 2 Head
Al-Rustaq missing players
Al-Musannah missing players
| Al-Rustaq | Al-Musannah | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 6 | 13 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 31 | 17 | Scored | S | 16 | 30 | ||
| 30 | 16 | Conceded | C | 12 | 28 | ||
| 84% | 86% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 64% | ||
| 48% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 14% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 4% | ||
| 44% | 43% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 36% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 40% | ||
| 40% | 36% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 24% | ||
| 3.3 | 3.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.3 | 3.2 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 5 | ||
| 1.1 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 6.9 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.3 | 7.6 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.8 | ||
| 56% | 88% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 38% | ||
| 6.4 | 6.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.7 | 6.7 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 2.7 | ||
| 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 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 15 |
| 2 | Dhofar | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 | Al Nasr | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 |
| 4 | Al-Musannah | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | Al-Nahda | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| 6 | Al-Rustaq | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Bahla | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 8 | Oman Club | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
| 9 | Sohar | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 8 |
| 10 | Al Suwaiq | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 11 | Saham | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 4 |
| 12 | Al-Ittihad | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | -10 | 3 |
| 13 | Nizwa | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | -12 | 3 |
| 14 | Muscat | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -7 | 1 |
