Iraqi League match preview: Naft Al-Janoob versus Naft Al-Wasat

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Competition: Iraq Iraqi League
Competition: Mon 17.May
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)

Naft Al-Janoob will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 14 points behind Naft Al-Wasat.

Insights:
  • Naft Al-Janoob have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Naft Al-Wasat have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Iraqi League

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

This pitch has sand pitch, which is not Naft Al-Wasat's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on sand pitch Naft Al-Wasat have performed like this: Played one match resulting in 0 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats with the goal stats 0-0 (scored/conceded).

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Naft Al-Janoob form and stats

Naft Al-Janoob have collected 20 points from their Iraqi League home games so far after 5-5-5.

Al-Janoob aren't scoring a lot here in the league, with only 14 goals from 15 games. Al-Janoob's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Naft Al-Wasat form and stats

7-7-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Naft Al-Wasat in their Iraqi League matches away.

The visiting Al-Wasat have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 18 goals from 15 games. Naft Al-Wasat are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 10 times in 15 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Naft Al-Wasat - Al-Janoob 2-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Naft Al-Janoob-Naft Al-Wasat H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Naft Al-Janoob two wins, Naft Al-Wasat six wins, two draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Naft Al-Janoob missing players

Naft Al-Wasat missing players

Naft Al-Janoob Naft Al-Wasat
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
30 15 5 Played P 5 15 30
8 5 1 Won W 4 7 13
12 5 1 Drew D 1 7 11
10 5 3 Lost L 0 1 6
27 14 2 Scored S 5 18 32
34 16 6 Conceded C 1 10 21
87% 87% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 87% 83%
63% 53% 40% Over 1.5 O 1.5 20% 53% 43%
37% 40% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 27% 23%
10% 13% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 13% 13%
7% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 10%
53% 47% 20% BTTS BTTS 20% 47% 37%
27% 33% 40% Clean Sheets C S 80% 53% 50%
33% 33% 60% Failed to Score F T 0% 13% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 2.6 3.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 1.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6 5.6 5.3 Shots (avg) S ( 5.3 9.6 8.4
2.2 2.6 2.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3 3
34% 28% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 47% 37%
Key stats in Iraqi League this season:
  • Naft Al-Janoob have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Naft Al-Wasat have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Naft Al-Wasat have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Iraqi 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 Al Quwa Al Jawiya 29 19 6 4 50 22 16 12 2 2 38 16 13 7 4 2 12 6 28 63
2 Al Shorta 30 16 10 4 48 19 15 9 6 0 30 8 15 7 4 4 18 11 29 58
3 Al Najaf 30 16 9 5 37 20 14 6 6 2 15 9 16 10 3 3 22 11 17 57
4 Al Zawra'a 30 14 14 2 34 15 15 8 6 1 20 8 15 6 8 1 14 7 19 56
5 Naft Al-Wasat 30 13 11 6 32 21 15 6 4 5 14 11 15 7 7 1 18 10 11 50
6 Zakho 30 9 14 7 28 28 15 6 7 2 16 12 15 3 7 5 12 16 0 41
7 Naft 29 9 13 7 27 24 16 5 8 3 16 12 13 4 5 4 11 12 3 40
8 Baghdad 30 10 9 11 23 24 16 4 6 6 12 13 14 6 3 5 11 11 -1 39
9 Al Minaa Basra 30 9 11 10 32 32 14 6 4 4 15 11 16 3 7 6 17 21 0 38
10 Naft Maysan 29 8 13 8 28 30 14 3 7 4 12 13 15 5 6 4 16 17 -2 37
11 Al Karkh 30 9 10 11 24 28 15 6 3 6 13 16 15 3 7 5 11 12 -4 37
12 Naft Al-Janoob 30 8 12 10 27 34 15 5 5 5 14 16 15 3 7 5 13 18 -7 36
13 Erbil 30 7 11 12 32 34 14 4 5 5 20 13 16 3 6 7 12 21 -2 32
14 Al Diwaniya 30 5 16 9 15 29 15 4 10 1 10 7 15 1 6 8 5 22 -14 31
15 Alsinaat Alkahrabaiya 30 6 12 12 17 27 15 5 7 3 9 8 15 1 5 9 8 19 -10 30
16 Al Kahrabaa 30 5 14 11 28 31 14 3 6 5 14 14 16 2 8 6 14 17 -3 29
17 Al-Qasim 30 5 13 12 29 40 16 3 6 7 16 21 14 2 7 5 13 19 -11 28
18 Al Talaba 30 6 10 14 26 38 15 3 4 8 13 19 15 3 6 6 13 19 -12 28
19 Al Simawa 29 5 9 15 16 43 14 4 6 4 9 10 15 1 3 11 7 33 -27 24
20 Al Hudod 30 2 17 11 24 38 15 1 9 5 14 20 15 1 8 6 10 18 -14 23