The visiting Al Zawra'a side should be favourites in this visit to Naft Al-Janoob, as the away team holds a 7 point advantage from their six league games this season.
- Naft Al-Janoob have lost all their home matches so far.
- Al Zawra'a have not yet lost a game.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Al-Janoob's stadium has a sand pitch surface. Al Zawra'a have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Al Zawra'a when playing on sand pitch; 1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss from two matches. They have scored 5 goals in these games and conceded 4.
Naft Al-Janoob form and stats
Naft Al-Janoob are yet to win a home game, having collected 0 points from their first two Iraqi League games here. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Naft Al-Janoob, their manager A. Hussain and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
Naft Al-Janoob are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Alsinaat Alkahrabaiya.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Naft Al-Janoob at home in the league. 2 on target and 4 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Al Zawra'a form and stats
Al Zawra'a are happy with their away performances in the Iraqi League so far, having secured two victories and one draw from their first three travels. Zawra'a love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Al Hudod.
The travelling fans enjoy Zawra'a's attacking play in away games, having scored 5 goals in 3 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Al Zawra'a as they have only conceded 2 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Naft Al-Janoob zero wins, three draws and Al Zawra'a seven victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Naft Al-Janoob missing players
Al Zawra'a missing players
| Naft Al-Janoob | Al Zawra'a | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 33% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 83% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 33% | 0% | 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 |
| 2.5 | 6 | 6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7.5 | 8 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 11 | 14 |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 75% | 50% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 100% | 50% |
- Al Zawra'a have not yet lost a game.
- Al Zawra'a have scored in all their matches so far.
- Al Zawra'a have scored more than double the goals of Naft Al-Janoob.
- Al Zawra'a haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of Al Zawra'a's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Naft Al-Janoob's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Naft Al-Janoob have lost all their home matches so far.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Naft Al-Wasat | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 13 |
| 2 | Erbil | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 3 | Al Talaba | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 4 | Al Zawra'a | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | Al Quwa Al Jawiya | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 6 | Naft | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | Al Shorta | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | Zakho | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | Al Diwaniya | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 10 | Al Kahrabaa | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 11 | Al Karkh | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 12 | Al Hudod | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 13 | Naft Maysan | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 14 | Al Minaa Basra | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 7 |
| 15 | Al Najaf | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 7 |
| 16 | Al Simawa | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 17 | Baghdad | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -4 | 6 |
| 18 | Alsinaat Alkahrabaiya | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 5 |
| 19 | Naft Al-Janoob | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 3 |
| 20 | Al-Qasim | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -5 | 2 |