Perhaps a welcome break from league football as East Riffa & Al Riffa face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Bahrain Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
East Riffa form and stats
Last season their Bahrain Cup adventure ended in the semi-finals.East Riffa have collected 11 points from their Premier League home games so far after 3-2-1.
Previous to that game, a Premier League home match hosting Al-Hidd in a game that was won 2-0.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Al-Najma are coming to town in one day.
A decent goal production from East Riffa in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches. From these home matches, East Riffa have conceded only 5 goals.
Al Riffa form and stats
Nothing but glory last season for Riffa, as they won the Bahrain Cup.As the visiting team in Premier League matches, Al Riffa have produced an overall stat of 3-1-0 so far.
Al Riffa have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper. It's been 398 minutes since they last conceded in Premier League.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Al Riffa manager Ashour as the team has another away game coming up in only one day, this time against Khalidiya.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Riffa are regular goalscorers on their travels.
Head 2 Head
East Riffa-Al Riffa H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: East Riffa zero wins, Al Riffa five wins, five draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).East Riffa missing players
Al Riffa missing players
| East Riffa | Al Riffa | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 7 | 15 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 2 | ||
| 40 | 22 | Scored | S | 35 | 54 | ||
| 27 | 13 | Conceded | C | 14 | 22 | ||
| 88% | 86% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 43% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 20% | ||
| 64% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 57% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 12% | ||
| 4.2 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.3 | 6 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.1 | 3.9 | ||
| 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.9 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7.3 | 8.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.6 | 11.8 | ||
| 3.3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.5 | 5.6 | ||
| 49% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 36% | ||
| 6.9 | 6.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.3 | 7.3 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 2.1 | ||
| 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 Riffa | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 15 | 26 |
| 2 | Manama | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 19 |
| 3 | Khalidiya | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 18 |
| 4 | East Riffa | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 18 |
| 5 | Muharraq | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 14 |
| 6 | Al Hala | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -5 | 10 |
| 7 | Al Ahli | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -6 | 9 |
| 8 | Al-Hidd | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 8 |
| 9 | Al-Najma | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -10 | 6 |
| 10 | Budaiya | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -10 | 5 |
