Soccer fixture preview: Home fans with big hopes before Al Ahli Jeddah - Al-Ain

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Competition: Saudi Arabia Division 1
Competition: Mon 10.April
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium

Things are looking good for Al Ahli Jeddah so far, with the 1st spot in the Division 1 table and hosting Al-Ain (who are placed 12th).

Insights:
  • Al Ahli Jeddah have the fewest conceded goals (18) in Division 1

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.

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Al Ahli Jeddah form and stats

32 points is a decent return from 14 Division 1 games here at Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium for Al Ahli Jeddah. The data says 10 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.

The Jeddah fans enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Al-Ain and win 1-0.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Al Jabalain with a 2-1 scoreline.

Al Ahli Jeddah are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 5 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 4, drew 1 and lost 0.

It should be added that a peek at the 12 latest league games reveals that 9 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored).

The Al Ahli Jeddah fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 22 goals in 14 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Jeddah are not conceding a lot of goals here at Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 11 from 14 matches.

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Al-Ain form and stats

The visitors are W4-D3-L7 on the road this term. That's in the Division 1.

Two away games in a row for Al-Ain, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Al Ahli Jeddah.

Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Al Quadisiya.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Al-Ain played away with similar odds. This revealed 4 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 4 times.

The attacking power of Al-Ain when travelling is not overwhelming with 12 goals scored from 14 league matches away. Al-Ain have conceded 19 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The participants have played each other already this season, with the match result Al Ahli Jeddah - Al-Ain 1-0 entered in the official records. Hindi (Al Ahli Jeddah), Yassin (Al-Ain) and Touil (Al-Ain) were sent off when these sides met previously this season. Will it be as hostile this time? Previous five meetings between these participants: Jeddah won two, Al-Ain were winners in one and we saw two draws. one game with more than 2,5 goals, four matches with less than 2,5 goals. The matches between these teams have had a tendency to be "violent", having seen 3 sending-offs from the last five duels.

Al Ahli Jeddah missing players

Al-Ain missing players

Al Ahli Jeddah Al-Ain
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
27 14 5 Played P 3 14 28
17 10 5 Won W 0 4 9
7 2 0 Drew D 0 3 6
3 2 0 Lost L 3 7 13
38 22 11 Scored S 1 12 29
18 11 1 Conceded C 8 19 36
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 86%
70% 64% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 64% 64%
33% 43% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 57% 57%
11% 21% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 14% 18%
4% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
37% 36% 20% BTTS BTTS 33% 50% 50%
56% 57% 80% Clean Sheets C S 0% 21% 25%
19% 7% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 43% 39%
 
4.8 4.4 4.6 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 2.4 2.6
3.1 2.6 2.8 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4.4 3.9
1.9 2 1.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.5 1.4
3 2 0 Red cards R C 1 4 6
 
9.8 10 11 Shots (avg) S ( 5.7 5.1 7.2
3.8 3.9 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 2.2 2.8
37% 41% 46% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 39% 35%
 
6.1 5.1 6.4 Shots against (avg) S A 13 10.4 9.1
2.4 2.4 2.6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.7 4 3.5
Key stats in Division 1 this season:
  • Al Ahli Jeddah have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Ahli Jeddah have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Al Ahli Jeddah have the fewest conceded goals (18) in Division 1
  • Al Ahli Jeddah have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6) in Division 1
  • Al Ahli Jeddah have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (12) in Division 1
  • Al Ahli Jeddah have the most clean sheets (15) in Division 1
  • Al Ahli Jeddah have the most clean sheets (8) at home in Division 1
  • Al Ahli Jeddah haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Ahli Jeddah 27 17 7 3 38 18 14 10 2 2 22 11 13 7 5 1 16 7 20 58
2 Al Akhdoud 27 17 5 5 49 25 13 9 3 1 23 12 14 8 2 4 26 13 24 56
3 Al Hazm 27 16 7 4 48 23 14 11 3 0 28 9 13 5 4 4 20 14 25 55
4 Al Riyadh 28 16 5 7 43 30 14 6 4 4 20 19 14 10 1 3 23 11 13 53
5 Al Arabi 27 11 9 7 36 33 13 5 5 3 15 13 14 6 4 4 21 20 3 42
6 Al Faisaly 25 11 7 7 29 24 13 5 3 5 18 17 12 6 4 2 11 7 5 40
7 Al Kholood 28 10 7 11 28 24 14 5 2 7 11 13 14 5 5 4 17 11 4 37
8 Hajer 28 9 9 10 33 36 14 6 5 3 17 13 14 3 4 7 16 23 -3 36
9 Ohod 27 8 12 7 25 28 14 5 8 1 15 12 13 3 4 6 10 16 -3 36
10 Al Jabalain 28 8 10 10 38 39 14 6 2 6 20 20 14 2 8 4 18 19 -1 34
11 Al Orubah 28 9 7 12 32 35 14 4 5 5 10 12 14 5 2 7 22 23 -3 34
12 Al-Ain 28 9 6 13 29 36 14 5 3 6 17 17 14 4 3 7 12 19 -7 33
13 Al Qaisoma 28 6 14 8 29 37 14 3 8 3 16 19 14 3 6 5 13 18 -8 32
14 Jeddah 28 8 6 14 25 31 13 6 4 3 16 12 15 2 2 11 9 19 -6 30
15 Najran 27 7 7 13 26 42 14 4 3 7 11 22 13 3 4 6 15 20 -16 28
16 Al Quadisiya 27 6 9 12 20 29 13 2 7 4 10 13 14 4 2 8 10 16 -9 27
17 Al Sahel 26 4 10 12 24 36 14 1 4 9 11 23 12 3 6 3 13 13 -12 22
18 Al Shoalah 28 2 7 19 17 43 13 1 1 11 8 24 15 1 6 8 9 19 -26 13