The visiting Al Riffa side should be favourites in this visit to Al Shabbab Manama, as the away team holds a 15 point advantage from their 13 league games this season.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Al Shabbab Manama form and stats
Al Shabbab Manama, who have the most conceded goals (30) in Premier League, have collected 3 points from their Premier League home games so far after 1-0-4. Three consecutive losses here at Madinat 'Isa Stadium is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.
A strong away win for Shabbab against East Riffa the last match. Nobody expected Shabbab to beat East Riffa in the last match, but sometimes David beats Goliath. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Al-Najma (1-4).
Al Shabbab Manama have scored 2 goals here in 5 league matches, a depressing statistic. Al Shabbab Manama have conceded 10 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Al Riffa form and stats
2 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Al Riffa, who have the most scored goals (37) in Premier League, playing as the away team in the Premier League this season.
Al Riffa won their last game, 5-1 versus Busaiteen played at home. Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against Manama.
As mentioned above, Riffa was the only team on the pitch versus Busaiteen in their previous game, winning 5-1. This could be a tougher task.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Riffa are regular goalscorers on their travels. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Riffa's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 15 goals in 6 travels.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Al Riffa - Al Shabbab Manama 3-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last nine meetings): Shabbab won two games, two matches ended with a draw and Al Riffa has five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / fiveTop Goalscorers
  K. Al Aswad 2 goals |   M. Salman Mahmood Mokhtar 1 goals | S. Hashem 1 goals |
Al Shabbab Manama missing players
Al Riffa missing players
| Al Shabbab Manama | Al Riffa | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 8 | 14 | 37 |
| 30 | 10 | 3 | Conceded | C | 6 | 15 | 22 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 69% | 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 62% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 83% | 92% |
| 46% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 83% | 85% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 67% | 46% |
| 46% | 20% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 23% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 38% | 60% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.9 | 4.4 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 9.3 | 7.5 | 6.8 |
| 7.7 | 9.2 | 12.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| 1.6 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 94 | 44 | 15 | Total Shots | T S | 15 | 46 | 104 |
| 35 | 17 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 10 | 27 | 53 |
| 29% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 80% | 52% | 55% |
- Al Riffa has the fewest matches under the total-line (1)
- Al Riffa has the most matches over the total-line (10)
- Al Riffa has the most points from losing position (9)
- Al Riffa has the most scored goals (14) away
- Al Riffa has the most scored goals (37)
- Al Riffa has the most scored goals in the first half (16)
- Al Riffa has the most scored goals in the second half (20)
- Al Riffa has the the best goal difference (+15)
- Al Riffa have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Al Riffa have scored in all their matches so far.
- Al Riffa have scored more than double the goals of Al Shabbab Manama.
- Al Riffa have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Al Riffa haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Al Shabbab Manama has the fewest points (3) at home
- Al Shabbab Manama has the fewest scored goals (2) at home
- Al Shabbab Manama has the fewest scored goals in the first half (2)
- Al Shabbab Manama has the most conceded goals (30)
- Al Shabbab Manama has the most conceded goals in the first half (13)
- Al Shabbab Manama has the the worst goal difference (-19)
- Al Shabbab Manama has the the worst goal difference (-8) at home
- Al Shabbab Manama have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Al Shabbab Manama have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Al Shabbab Manama haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- All of Al Riffa's 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 | Muharraq | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 30 |
| 2 | Al-Hidd | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 29 |
| 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 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 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 |