Delightful dogfight as daring Al Adalh duel with determined Al Ittifaq

Relegation threatens Al Adalh who should definitely be looking for some points here. Ittifaq is no longer fighting for a cause; they can neither go up or down this season. Al Adalh's stadium, Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Sports City Stadium, has a grass surface. Al Ittifaq have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Al Ittifaq when playing on grass; 3 wins, 5 draws and 13 losses from 21 matches. They have scored {18 goals} in these games and conceded 38.

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 Adalh form and stats

When playing at home in the Pro League, Al Adalh have managed 5 wins, 2 draws and suffered 7 defeats from 14 games.

The home team returns to Prince Abdullah bin Jalawi Sports City Stadium after drawing with Al Batin (placed 16th) on their last time out; the game ended 2-2. Antonsson felt an ounce or two of guilt after the draw against Al Batin as the player was unable to convert a penalty kick in the 90th minute.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Al Hilal in a game that was won 2-0.

Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 24 goals have been conceded.

Al Ittifaq form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Al Ittifaq so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 2-4-8 (win-draw-lose). Al Ittifaq has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Ittifaq's last game was the home draw against Al Nassr (1-1).

A 0-4 loss hosting Al Fateh before that.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Al Ittifaq playing away, we found 4 games. Results were 0 away wins, 2 draws and 2 home wins.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Al Ittifaq as they have only managed to score 9 times from 14 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Al Ittifaq have seen the ball go into their own net 19 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Al Ittifaq - Adalh 3-2 was the story when these two teams previously did battle, also in this season. Al Adalh-Al Ittifaq H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Al Adalh zero wins, Al Ittifaq three wins, zero draws. one of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Y. Niakaté 8 goals

M. Antonsson 6 goals

R. Quaison 6 goals

Al Adalh missing players

Al Ittifaq missing players