Fasten your seatbelts for one of the major highlights of the season: The AFC Champions League final where Al Hilal and Pohang Steelers will do all they can to write themselves into the history books. Game on!
Al Hilal form and stats
Al Hilal participated in AFC Champions League the last season, where they reached the group stage.When playing at home in the Pro League, Al Hilal have managed 4 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 5 games. On the other hand, in the AFC Champions League, Al Hilal has performed like this (both home and away): 6 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. Al Hilal haven’t lost a league-game in 14 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Al Ittihad, 227 days ago.
The Hilal supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Dhamk in Pro League and win 2-0.
1-1 away at Al Ahli before that.There will be little rest for Hilal after this match as they are travelling to Abha for a Pro League game in only three days.
Hilal have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Mrsool Park with 9 goals in 5 league matches. Al Hilal have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Pohang Steelers form and stats
When we have look at the AFC Champions League statistics, we find 5W-3D-1L. This is both home and away.
The manager G. Kim was unhappy after their last game, a K-League Classic match played at their home ground Steelyard Stadium. Steelers suffered a 1-2 loss to Gwangju. Sang-woo Kang got a match rating of 7.34 in that game, top player of the team. Kang scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
Prior to that match, a home win 4-0 against Gangwon in the K-League Classic.Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Lim 10 goals |   B. Gomis 5 goals |  S. Kang 4 goals |
Al Hilal missing players
Pohang Steelers missing players
| Al Hilal | Pohang Steelers | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 8 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 11 | ||
| 49 | 24 | Scored | S | 11 | 28 | ||
| 26 | 13 | Conceded | C | 12 | 26 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 84% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 46% | 56% | ||
| 52% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 15% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 56% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 31% | 40% | ||
| 36% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 36% | ||
| 7 | 7.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 4.5 | ||
| 3 | 2.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.3 | 3.2 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 5 | ||
| 13 | 13.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.4 | 11 | ||
| 5.3 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 3.9 | ||
| 37% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 19% | 29% | ||
| 8.7 | 6.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.7 | 9 | ||
| 3.6 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dhamk | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 24 |
| 2 | Al Ittihad | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 23 |
| 3 | Al Shabab | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 22 |
| 4 | Al Hilal | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| 5 | Al Raed | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 18 |
| 6 | Al Feiha | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 17 |
| 7 | Al Ahli | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 15 |
| 8 | Al Faisaly | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
| 9 | Al Nassr | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 10 | Al Ittifaq | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 15 | -5 | 13 |
| 11 | Abha | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 13 | -9 | 13 |
| 12 | Al Fateh | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -1 | 12 |
| 13 | Al Batin | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 12 |
| 14 | Al Taawon | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 16 | -6 | 10 |
| 15 | Al Hazm | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | -7 | 10 |
| 16 | Al Ta'ee | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -9 | 10 |