The visiting East Riffa side should be favourites in this visit to Malkiya, as the away team holds a 11 point advantage from their seven league games this season.
- Malkiya has the most conceded goals (12) in Premier League
- East Riffa has the most scored goals (12) in Premier League
Malkiya 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.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2500 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Malkiya form and stats
Malkiya, who have the most conceded goals (12) in Premier League, have secured 5 points from their first three home games in the Premier League. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.
In the match before that, Malkiya hosted Budaiya and drew the game 0-0.
The Malkiya fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 3 in 3 matches. Malkiya have only conceded 2 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
East Riffa form and stats
East Riffa are yet to lose a point on their Premier League travels this season with 3 wins from 3 away games.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Muharraq at their stadium, the result 1-0.
The visiting Riffa have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 4 goals from 3 games. The East Riffa defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average (1 goal in 3 games).
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Malkiya won six games, two matches ended with a draw and East Riffa has two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeMalkiya missing players
East Riffa missing players
| Malkiya | East Riffa | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| 12 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 86% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 33% | 71% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 67% | 57% |
| 57% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3 | 3.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 5.7 | 7.3 |
| 2.7 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 3.3 |
| 21% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 44% | 52% |
- East Riffa has the most matches over the total-line (3) in Premier League
- East Riffa has the most scored goals (12) in Premier League
- East Riffa has the most scored goals in the first half (7) in Premier League
- East Riffa has the the best goal difference (+8) in Premier League
- East Riffa have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- East Riffa have scored in all their matches so far.
- East Riffa have scored more than double the goals of Malkiya.
- East Riffa have won all their away games so far.
- East Riffa haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Malkiya has the most conceded goals (12) in Premier League
- Malkiya has the the worst goal difference (-8) in Premier League
- Malkiya have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Malkiya have not yet lost a game 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 Riffa | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 19 |
| 2 | East Riffa | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | Manama | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 4 | Budaiya | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 5 | Muharraq | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 6 | Al-Hidd | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -1 | 8 |
| 7 | Al-Najma | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 8 |
| 8 | Busaiteen | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 | Al Ahli | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -7 | 5 |
| 10 | Malkiya | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -8 | 5 |