With their 7 point advantage in the league table, Al-Najma fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Al Ahli.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
It's quite the trip for Al Ahli when visiting Al-Najma as the cities are 3700 kilometers apart.
Al-Najma form and stats
Al-Najma are steadily winning Premier League games and points here at Al-Ahli Stadium. 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat is the summary from 7 games. There’s a good atmosphere here at Al-Ahli Stadium after three straight home wins.
A nice win for Al-Najma last time playing, versus Al-Hidd. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0. Before that, Al-Najma had a home game versus Al Shabbab Manama which ended with a victory 4-1.
Goals decide football matches and Al-Najma are scoring many of them at home; 17 on target from 7 league matches. Al-Najma's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Al Ahli form and stats
The visitors are W3-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League. Ahli has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Al Ahli play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Muharraq (placed 2nd). Prior to that match, a home win 3-0 against Al Hala.
The travelling fans enjoy Ahli's attacking play in away games, having scored 10 goals in 6 league matches away. Ahli have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Al Ahli - Al-Najma 2-2. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's one Al-Najma victory, one draw and zero Al Ahli wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Al Humaidan 3 goals | E. Anang 3 goals |  A. Madan 2 goals |
Al-Najma missing players
Al Ahli missing players
| Al-Najma | Al Ahli | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 22 | 17 | 10 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 17 |
| 17 | 10 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 77% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 62% |
| 46% | 71% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 62% |
| 38% | 57% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 38% |
| 31% | 57% | 67% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 62% | 86% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 46% |
| 15% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 5.2 | 5.6 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 4.5 | 4.8 |
| 3.4 | 3 | 1.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.8 | 5 |
| 2.2 | 2.7 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.5 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 106 | 80 | 28 | Total Shots | T S | 11 | 66 | 100 |
| 53 | 43 | 16 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 28 | 39 |
| 38% | 40% | 62% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 36% | 36% |
- Al Ahli has the most dropped points from leading position (8)
- Al Ahli have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Al Ahli haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Al-Najma have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al-Najma have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Al-Najma haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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-Hidd | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 32 |
| 2 | Muharraq | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 30 |
| 3 | Al Riffa | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 37 | 22 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 25 |
| 4 | Al-Najma | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 21 |
| 5 | East Riffa | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 21 |
| 6 | Manama | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -2 | 16 |
| 7 | Al Ahli | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | Al Shabbab Manama | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 20 | -19 | 10 |
| 9 | Busaiteen | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -12 | 9 |
| 10 | Al Hala | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 16 | -14 | 6 |