Can Al Bahri beat Al Shorta in Zubair Stadium clash?

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Competition: Iraq Iraqi League
Date: Tue 23.July
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Zubair Stadium (5000 seats)

The visiting Al Shorta side should be favourites in this visit to Al Bahri, as the away team holds a 63 point advantage from their 37 league games this season.

The visiting Al Shorta played their last game only four days ago, a Iraqi League match. That match was played in the comfort of their own home stadium, hosting Al Karkh. There's been little rest and some travel, but Al Shorta will do their best.

Al Shorta play their home games on grass, while this game is played on sand pitch. Recent stats for Al Shorta when playing on sand pitch are 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeat from three matches. They have scored 7 goals and conceded 4 times in these games.

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Al Bahri form and stats

With 2 wins, 8 draws and 8 defeats from their home games, Al Bahri, who have the fewest points (14) at home in Iraqi League, are certainly not brimming with confidence.

The Al Bahri fans got no joy from their last match, a Iraqi League game also here at Zubair Stadium: A 1-2 defeat against Al Hudod. Heartbreak before that as Al Bahri lost 1-3 at Erbil's place.

Al Bahri are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home, having created 18 goals in 18 matches. Al Bahri have conceded 28 from these games.

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Al Shorta form and stats

Al Shorta, who have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Iraqi League, have an excellent away record so far with 12-5-1 from 18 games.

Al Shorta are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Iraqi League against Al Karkh. A 0-1 defeat away at Al Minaa Basra before that.

The travelling fans enjoy Al Shorta's attacking play in away games, having scored 30 goals in 18 away matches. Al Shorta are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 7 goals away.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Al Shorta - Al Bahri 3-1. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's 0 Al Bahri victories, 1 draw and 4 Al Shorta wins. 4 of these games ended with three goals or more, 1 match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Ala'a Abdul Zahra
26 goals

Al Bahri missing players

Al Shorta missing players

Al Bahri Al Shorta
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs low Away Total
37 18 5 Played 6 18 37
5 2 1 Won 5 12 27
11 8 1 Drew 0 5 8
21 8 3 Lost 1 1 2
36 18 7 Scored 17 30 72
65 28 13 Conceded 3 7 19
86% 83% 100% Over 0.5 100% 83% 86%
73% 72% 100% Over 1.5 67% 56% 65%
62% 56% 100% Over 2.5 50% 28% 41%
35% 33% 80% Over 3.5 50% 17% 24%
14% 11% 20% Over 4.5 17% 6% 11%
68% 72% 100% BTTS 33% 33% 38%
14% 17% 0% Clean Sheets 50% 61% 59%
32% 28% 0% Failed To Score 17% 22% 16%
 
3 4 4 Corners For (avg) 0 6.5 6.6
7 7 7 Corners Against (avg) 0 2.5 2.8
1.5 2 2 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 2 2.8
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Al Bahri have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Al Bahri have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Al Shorta have created more than twice as many corners as Al Bahri.
  • Al Shorta have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Al Shorta have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.

Al Bahri
All Iraqi League
All Home Away
27-05-19 IL Al Bahri 2 - 3 Naft Al-Janoob
01-06-19 IL Alsinaat Alkahrabaiya 3 - 2 Al Bahri
15-06-19 IL Al Kahrabaa 1 - 0 Al Bahri
20-06-19 IL Al Bahri 2 - 1 Naft Maysan
28-06-19 IL Al Quwa Al Jawiya 3 - 1 Al Bahri
03-07-19 IL Al Bahri 2 - 1 Al Hussein
08-07-19 IL Al Diwaniya 1 - 2 Al Bahri
13-07-19 IL Erbil 3 - 1 Al Bahri
18-07-19 IL Al Bahri 1 - 2 Al Hudod
23-07-19 IL Al Bahri 14:00 Al Shorta
Al Shorta
All Syria Cup Iraqi League Premier League
All Home Away
28-05-19 IL Al Hussein 0 - 2 Al Shorta
01-06-19 IL Al Shorta 1 - 0 Al Diwaniya
14-06-19 IL Al Shorta 2 - 1 Erbil
20-06-19 IL Al Hudod 1 - 2 Al Shorta
26-06-19 IL Al Shorta 3 - 1 Al Simawa
02-07-19 IL Al Shorta 2 - 1 Baghdad
09-07-19 IL Al Najaf 0 - 0 Al Shorta
14-07-19 IL Al Minaa Basra 1 - 0 Al Shorta
19-07-19 IL Al Shorta 1 - 0 Al Karkh
23-07-19 IL Al Bahri 14:00 Al Shorta

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Al Shorta 37 27 8 2 72 19 19 15 3 1 42 12 18 12 5 1 30 7 53 89
2 Al Quwa Al Jawiya 38 25 9 4 58 27 19 11 5 3 31 17 19 14 4 1 27 10 31 84
3 Al Zawra'a 38 17 14 7 57 40 19 8 8 3 30 18 19 9 6 4 27 22 17 65
4 Naft 37 15 15 7 58 39 18 8 5 5 26 18 19 7 10 2 32 21 19 60
5 Naft Maysan 37 15 13 9 57 47 19 12 6 1 39 21 18 3 7 8 18 26 10 58
6 Al Karkh 37 15 11 11 43 34 18 9 4 5 22 16 19 6 7 6 21 18 9 56
7 Baghdad 37 12 13 12 35 34 19 7 6 6 17 16 18 5 7 6 18 18 1 49
8 Naft Al-Wasat 37 11 16 10 36 35 19 7 6 6 17 13 18 4 10 4 19 22 1 49
9 Al Hudod 37 12 13 12 33 39 18 8 5 5 21 19 19 4 8 7 12 20 -6 49
10 Al Kahrabaa 38 10 18 10 41 41 19 5 8 6 19 20 19 5 10 4 22 21 0 48
11 Erbil 38 12 12 14 34 36 19 9 7 3 22 7 19 3 5 11 12 29 -2 48
12 Al Najaf 38 9 17 12 41 43 19 6 6 7 24 24 19 3 11 5 17 19 -2 44
13 Al Talaba 37 10 14 13 47 50 19 6 8 5 27 24 18 4 6 8 20 26 -3 44
14 Al Diwaniya 37 9 17 11 32 41 19 6 8 5 20 23 18 3 9 6 12 18 -9 44
15 Naft Al-Janoob 38 11 9 18 37 53 19 7 5 7 23 25 19 4 4 11 14 28 -16 42
16 Al Minaa Basra 38 8 16 14 34 42 19 6 11 2 20 13 19 2 5 12 14 29 -8 40
17 Alsinaat Alkahrabaiya 37 9 13 15 30 38 18 5 6 7 16 18 19 4 7 8 14 20 -8 40
18 Al Simawa 38 8 9 21 26 59 19 4 7 8 13 20 19 4 2 13 13 39 -33 33
19 Al Bahri 37 5 11 21 36 65 18 2 8 8 18 28 19 3 3 13 18 37 -29 26
20 Al Hussein 37 4 12 21 27 52 18 3 8 7 15 20 19 1 4 14 12 32 -25 24

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