This league campaign has been hard for Al Minaa Basra so far, while Al Zawra'a have enjoyed many victories. Will the highest placed get the points at Al Faihaa Stadium?
- Al Minaa Basra have yet to win a game.
- Al Zawra'a have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Al Minaa Basra form and stats
Al Minaa Basra's struggle is real here at Al Faihaa Stadium with only 4 points collected from 6 Iraqi League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-4-2. All in all it has been a very rough period for Minaa who hasn’t won a league-game in their last twelve attempts. Their previous win was against Erbil, 86 days ago.
An away draw last time out for Al Minaa Basra, facing Al Karkh in a game that ended 1-1.
1-1 away at Newroz SC before that.The match schedule is unforgiving for Al Minaa Basra as they have a new game in only four days, a Iraqi League match thankfully also at home. Baghdad are visiting.
Minaa have scored 4 league goals here from 6 matches, not a lot. 7 goals have been conceded.
Al Zawra'a form and stats
The visitors are W3-D1-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Iraqi League.
Zawra'a play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Zakho (placed 8th).
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Al Karkh.Zawra'a find the net regularly in their away games. 5 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. The Zawra'a defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average (2 goals in 5 games).
Head 2 Head
Al Minaa Basra-Al Zawra'a H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Al Minaa Basra one win, Al Zawra'a five wins, four draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Al Minaa Basra missing players
Al Zawra'a missing players
| Al Minaa Basra | Al Zawra'a | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 16 |
| 16 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 83% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 91% |
| 75% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 40% | 55% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 45% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 58% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 80% | 64% |
| 42% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 18% |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 6.5 | 5.2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1 | 2 | 3.8 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 6.5 | 10.3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 1 | 2.3 |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 50% | 71% |
| 6.5 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 2 | 4 | 5.3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
- Al Minaa Basra have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Minaa Basra have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Al Minaa Basra have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Al Minaa Basra have yet to win a game.
- Al Zawra'a have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Al Zawra'a have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
- Al Zawra'a have won significantly more corners away than 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 Shorta | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 17 | 32 |
| 2 | Naft Al-Wasat | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 28 |
| 3 | Al Zawra'a | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 28 |
| 4 | Al Quwa Al Jawiya | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 25 |
| 5 | Al Talaba | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 23 |
| 6 | Naft Al-Basra | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 20 |
| 7 | Al Najaf | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 20 |
| 8 | Zakho | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 19 |
| 9 | Baghdad | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 16 |
| 10 | Al Sinaah | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 15 |
| 11 | Al Kahrabaa | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -1 | 14 |
| 12 | Naft | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 13 |
| 13 | Naft Maysan | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -6 | 13 |
| 14 | Al-Qasim | 12 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -4 | 11 |
| 15 | Newroz SC | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 10 |
| 16 | Al Karkh | 12 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 8 |
| 17 | Erbil | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -8 | 8 |
| 18 | Al Minaa Basra | 12 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -8 | 7 |
| 19 | Al Diwaniya | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 11 | -14 | 5 |
| 20 | Samaraa | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -15 | 3 |