The visiting Sanat Naft side should be favourites in this visit to Machine Sazi, as the away team holds a 18 point advantage from their 14 league games this season.
- Machine Sazi has the most conceded goals (22) in Persian Gulf Pro League
- Sanat Naft has the most points from losing position (9) in Persian Gulf Pro League
Machine Sazi and Sanat Naft 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 quite the trip for Sanat Naft when visiting Machine as the cities are 1600 kilometers apart.
Machine Sazi form and stats
With 0 Persian Gulf Pro League wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Machine Sazi, who have the most conceded goals (22) in Persian Gulf Pro League, are certainly not brimming with confidence. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 14 attempts.
Machine Sazi drew their last game, 2-2 away at Paykan (placed 11th). Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Persepolis (1-2).
Machine salvaged the draw from a difficult situation against Paykan, trailing 0-2 at one point. Not giving up resulted in P. Babaei equalizing.
Machine Sazi aren't scoring a lot here at Bonyan Diesel Stadium in the league, with only 4 goals from 6 games. 8 goals have been conceded.
Sanat Naft form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sanat Naft so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 1-4-2 (win-draw-lose).
Sanat's last game was the home draw against Foolad (1-1). A 0-0 draw at Mes Rafsanjan's stadium before that.
The attacking power of Sanat when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 7 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Sanat as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last six meetings): Machine won four games, one match ended with a draw and Sanat Naft has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: zero / sixTop Goalscorers
  P. Babaei Alibeyk 6 goals |   T. Rikani 6 goals | R. Khaleghifar 3 goals |
Machine Sazi missing players
Sanat Naft missing players
| Machine Sazi | Sanat Naft | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Scored | S | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| 22 | 8 | 4 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 93% |
| 50% | 33% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 43% | 64% |
| 36% | 17% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 21% | 17% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 14% | 17% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 43% | 33% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 43% | 57% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 29% | 29% |
| 57% | 67% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 43% | 21% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.8 | 1.8 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7.7 | 7.2 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.7 | 5.3 | 6.8 |
| 2.5 | 2.4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.3 | 1.3 | 2.5 |
| 28% | 33% | 75% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 75% | 38% | 44% |
- Machine Sazi has the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Persian Gulf Pro League
- Machine Sazi has the fewest clean sheets (1) in Persian Gulf Pro League
- Machine Sazi has the fewest points (2) at home in Persian Gulf Pro League
- Machine Sazi has the most conceded goals (22) in Persian Gulf Pro League
- Machine Sazi has the most conceded goals in the first half (11) in Persian Gulf Pro League
- Machine Sazi has the the worst goal difference (-13) in Persian Gulf Pro League
- Machine Sazi have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Machine Sazi have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Machine Sazi have yet to win a game.
- Machine Sazi haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Sanat Naft has the most points from losing position (9) in Persian Gulf Pro League
- Sanat Naft has the most scored goals in the second half (12) in Persian Gulf Pro League
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Esteghlal | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 26 |
| 2 | Sepahan | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 25 |
| 3 | Persepolis | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 24 |
| 4 | Sanat Naft | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 23 |
| 5 | Foolad | 14 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 20 |
| 6 | Gol Gohar | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 |
| 7 | Aluminium Arak | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 19 |
| 8 | Tractor Sazi | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 19 |
| 9 | Mes Rafsanjan | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -1 | 19 |
| 10 | Naft Masjed Soleyman | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 18 |
| 11 | Paykan | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 18 |
| 12 | Padideh Khorasan | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 18 |
| 13 | Saipa | 14 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 17 |
| 14 | Zob Ahan | 14 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -6 | 11 |
| 15 | Nassaji Mazandaran | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 10 | -8 | 9 |
| 16 | Machine Sazi | 14 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | -13 | 5 |