Football betting preview: Al Ittihad Kalba with moderate expectations before welcoming Al Sharjah

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Competition: United Arab Emirates Uae League
Competition: Tue 20.December
Match begins: 12:45 (UTC)
Venue: Ittihad Kalba Club Stadium (8148 seats)

Hey! Here's all you must know about the Uae League fixture Al Ittihad Kalba - Al Sharjah!

Insights:
  • All of Al Ittihad Kalba's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Al Sharjah have not yet lost a game away.

This football pitch uses the playing surface artifical turf, unlike Al Sharjah's home ground. The former five games by the away team on artifical turf have ended with 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.

Al Sharjah could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Arabian Gulf Cup game only four sleeps ago. That game, against Khorfakkan Club, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Al Sharjah.

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Al Ittihad Kalba form and stats

The story so far in the Uae League for Al Ittihad Kalba at their home stadium (Ittihad Kalba Club Stadium) is 4 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. After failing to beat Al Bataeh here at Ittihad Kalba Club Stadium, Al Ittihad Kalba has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

Al Ittihad Kalba's previous fixture was a Presidents Cup game also played at home, ending 6-2 against Al Thaid. The home team hope to to build on that result.

Ahead of that result, a home loss in the Arabian Gulf Cup against Al Wahda.

Goals decide football matches and Al Ittihad Kalba are scoring many of them at home; 11 on target from 5 league matches. 6 goals have been conceded.

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Al Sharjah form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Uae League travels is 4 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Sharjah are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Khorfakkan Club in their previous outing. The Arabian Gulf Cup battle ended 1-1.

A home victory as expected against Khorfakkan Club preceding that, in the Arabian Gulf Cup.

It's early days yet, but Al Sharjah has scored 10 and conceded 5 goals from their travels in the league so far (5 games).

Head 2 Head

Al Ittihad Kalba-Al Sharjah H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Al Ittihad Kalba one win, Al Sharjah seven wins, two draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Al SharjahF. Alcácer García
F. Alcácer García
6 goals
IttihadA. Al Naqbi
A. Al Naqbi
4 goals
Al SharjahL. Martins Pereira
L. Martins Pereira
4 goals

Al Ittihad Kalba missing players

Al Sharjah missing players

Al Ittihad Kalba Al Sharjah
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 0 Played P 3 5 10
5 4 0 Won W 2 4 6
2 0 0 Drew D 1 1 2
3 1 0 Lost L 0 0 2
14 11 0 Scored S 7 10 18
12 6 0 Conceded C 5 5 9
90% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 60% 60%
40% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 40% 50%
20% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 40% 30%
10% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 40% 20%
30% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 40% 30%
40% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 60% 50%
40% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 20%
 
5.4 6 0 Corners for (avg) C F 4.3 5 4.8
5.9 4.2 0 Corners against (avg) C A 3.3 3.4 4.7
2.3 2.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 3 3.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
12.7 13.4 0 Shots (avg) S ( 11.7 10.6 10.4
4.5 5.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 4.6 4.3
31% 42% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 43% 42%
 
9.1 6.8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 9.3 9.2 8.1
3.3 2.8 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 3.6 3.6
Key stats in Uae League this season:
  • Al Ittihad Kalba haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Al Sharjah have not yet lost a game away.
  • Al Sharjah have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Al Sharjah haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Al Ittihad Kalba's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.

  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 Wahda 10 7 1 2 23 9 4 3 0 1 11 3 6 4 1 1 12 6 14 22
2 Shabab Al Ahli Dubai 10 7 1 2 20 9 6 4 1 1 9 5 4 3 0 1 11 4 11 22
3 Al Wasl 10 6 3 1 19 11 5 2 3 0 11 6 5 4 0 1 8 5 8 21
4 Al Sharjah 10 6 2 2 18 9 5 2 1 2 8 4 5 4 1 0 10 5 9 20
5 Al Ain 10 5 2 3 24 12 4 3 0 1 14 4 6 2 2 2 10 8 12 17
6 Al Jazira 10 5 2 3 17 11 6 3 1 2 9 6 4 2 1 1 8 5 6 17
7 Ajman 10 5 2 3 13 10 6 3 2 1 8 5 4 2 0 2 5 5 3 17
8 Al Ittihad Kalba 10 5 2 3 14 12 5 4 0 1 11 6 5 1 2 2 3 6 2 17
9 Al Bataeh 10 4 0 6 8 19 4 0 0 4 1 13 6 4 0 2 7 6 -11 12
10 Bani Yas 10 3 2 5 14 14 6 2 2 2 9 6 4 1 0 3 5 8 0 11
11 Khorfakkan Club 10 3 2 5 11 14 6 3 1 2 10 8 4 0 1 3 1 6 -3 11
12 Al Nasr 10 1 3 6 9 21 4 1 0 3 4 7 6 0 3 3 5 14 -12 6
13 Al Dhafra 10 1 1 8 10 32 4 1 1 2 5 6 6 0 0 6 5 26 -22 4
14 Dibba Al Fujairah 10 0 1 9 4 21 5 0 0 5 3 12 5 0 1 4 1 9 -17 1