Season ticket holders at Sheikh Ali bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Stadium haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Manama languishing in the 7th position so far. The guesting Al-Najma will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
Manama and Al-Najma 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.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Al-Najma, who are travelling more than 3700 kilometers to play this game.
Manama form and stats
Manama have collected 8 points from their Premier League home games so far after 2-2-0.
Manama faced defeat in their previous match, away at Muharraq (0-1). Prior to that, an away loss at Muharraq in the Premier League.
Goals decide football matches and Manama are scoring many of them at home; 9 on target from 4 league matches. 5 goals have been conceded.
Al-Najma form and stats
0-2-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Al-Najma in their Premier League matches away.
Al-Najma go into this game after a win, the home game against Al Riffa that ended 4-2. Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Manama.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Al Riffa was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
The attacking power of Al-Najma when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 4 league matches away. Al-Najma struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 6 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Al-Najma - Manama 1-1 earlier this season. Manama-Al-Najma H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Manama zero wins, Al-Najma one win, three draws. one of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
 M. Barbosa Vieira Junior 2 goals |  A. Madan 2 goals |  M. Mohamed Ali Hasan 1 goals |
Manama missing players
Al-Najma missing players
| Manama | Al-Najma | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 15 |
| 13 | 5 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 15 |
| 78% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 78% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 89% |
| 44% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 56% |
| 33% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 44% |
| 22% | 50% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 67% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 78% |
| 22% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 50% | 22% |
| 3.6 | 3 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.8 | 5 |
| 5.8 | 6.5 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 5.2 | 4.3 |
| 1.4 | 1.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.2 | 2.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 68 | 31 | 9 | Total Shots | T S | 10 | 17 | 70 |
| 25 | 13 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 8 | 38 |
| 32% | 38% | 57% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 12% | 34% |
- Al-Najma has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Al-Najma have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Al-Najma have yet to win a game away.
- Al-Najma haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Manama have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Manama have not yet lost a game at home.
- Manama have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Manama have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Al-Najma have scored away.
| 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 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 22 |
| 2 | Muharraq | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 19 |
| 3 | East Riffa | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 16 |
| 4 | Al Riffa | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | Al-Najma | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 6 | Al Ahli | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 7 | Manama | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -1 | 11 |
| 8 | Busaiteen | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 9 | Al Shabbab Manama | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | -15 | 7 |
| 10 | Al Hala | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | -9 | 5 |