Struggling Al Shabbab Manama will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying East Riffa in the upcoming league round. It’s 9th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
Al Shabbab Manama and East Riffa should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Al Shabbab Manama form and stats
Three Premier League home games done for Al Shabbab Manama, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches.
The Al Shabbab Manama fans got no joy from their last match, a Premier League game also here at Sheikh Ali bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Stadium: A 0-2 defeat against Al-Hidd (placed 1st). A strong away win before that one, visiting Busaiteen and winning 2-1.
Al Shabbab Manama has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 1 goal from 3 games. Al Shabbab Manama are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (6 from 3 played).
East Riffa form and stats
East Riffa are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premier League, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).
It's the second away game in a row for East Riffa, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus Al Hala (placed 10th) in the Premier League last time out. A 1-3 defeat away at Al Riffa before that.
East Riffa are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 3 away goals from 3 games (in the league). As opposed to that, East Riffa have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
As for the last six games between these two teams, there's zero Al Shabbab Manama victories, two draws and four East Riffa wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
 E. Martins da Cruz 2 goals |   M. Salman Mahmood Mokhtar 1 goals | S. Hashem 1 goals |
Al Shabbab Manama missing players
East Riffa missing players
| Al Shabbab Manama | East Riffa | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 20 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 75% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 75% |
| 62% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 33% | 38% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 4.9 | 5 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.3 | 4.1 |
| 6 | 8.3 | 11 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 11 | 8.3 | 6.4 |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 54 | 25 | 9 | Total Shots | T S | 11 | 24 | 61 |
| 19 | 8 | 1 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 8 | 23 |
| 32% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 38% | 35% |
- Al Shabbab Manama has the fewest scored goals (1) at home
- Al Shabbab Manama has the most conceded goals (20)
- Al Shabbab Manama has the most conceded goals in the first half (11)
- Al Shabbab Manama has the the worst goal difference (-13)
- Al Shabbab Manama has the the worst goal difference (-5) at home
- Al Shabbab Manama have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Al Shabbab Manama is in the worst form (1-1-4)
- East Riffa have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- East Riffa have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| 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 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| 2 | Muharraq | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 16 |
| 3 | East Riffa | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
| 4 | Al Riffa | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 12 |
| 5 | Manama | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | Al-Najma | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 9 |
| 7 | Al Ahli | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 8 | Busaiteen | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 8 |
| 9 | Al Shabbab Manama | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | -13 | 7 |
| 10 | Al Hala | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | -8 | 5 |