National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's East Riffa or Manama that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Riffa and Manama.
East Riffa form and stats
Riffa participated in Bahrain Cup the last season, where they reached the semi-finals.East Riffa must be fairly happy with 5 points from their first three Premier League games here at Stād al-Bahrayn al-Watanī.
Riffa's last game was hosting Al Shabbab Manama and winning 4-0. As mentioned above, East Riffa "killed" Al Shabbab Manama in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. The 4-0 win against Al Shabbab Manama was decided after a strong and deadly first half, making the second half more of a journey towards the final whistle.
Before that, Riffa had a Premier League home game versus Al Ahli which ended with a victory 2-0.Riffa are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 3 games. Riffa have only conceded 2 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Manama form and stats
Manama's mission in Bahrain Cup last season failed in the quarter-finals.2-2-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Manama in their Premier League matches away.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Manama, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-3 versus Al-Hidd.
Preceding that game was the away Premier League victory against Budaiya with the score of 2-1.With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Manama are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Manama have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Riffa three wins, four draws and Manama three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.East Riffa missing players
Manama missing players
| East Riffa | Manama | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 41 | 24 | Scored | S | 23 | 35 | ||
| 29 | 11 | Conceded | C | 21 | 31 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 68% | ||
| 48% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 16% | ||
| 64% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 85% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 24% | ||
| 4.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.6 | 4.7 | ||
| 5.7 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.9 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.6 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7.9 | 8.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.4 | 8.2 | ||
| 3.4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.5 | ||
| 50% | 52% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 38% | ||
| 7.3 | 6.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 6.3 | ||
| 2.9 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.9 | 2.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Manama | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| 2 | Al Riffa | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 | East Riffa | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | Khalidiya | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 5 | Al-Hidd | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 6 | Al-Najma | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | -2 | 6 |
| 7 | Al Hala | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 5 |
| 8 | Muharraq | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | Budaiya | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 4 |
| 10 | Al Ahli | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 3 |