Iraqi League: Samaraa - Naft Al-Wasat game guide and the hard facts

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Competition: Iraq Iraqi League
Competition: Wed 09.February
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Samaraa Stadium (10000 seats)

A quick look at the Iraqi League standings indicate an advantage to Naft Al-Wasat when they go to Samaraa. Even so; let's play the match before we elect a winner!

Insights:
  • Samaraa have the fewest scored goals (7) in Iraqi League
  • Naft Al-Wasat have scored more than double the goals of Samaraa.

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Samaraa form and stats

Samaraa's struggle is real here at Samaraa Stadium with only 2 points collected from 9 Iraqi League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-2-7. All in all it has been a very rough period for Samaraa who hasn’t won a league-game in their last 25 attempts. Their previous win was against Al Karkh, 3943 days ago.

Samaraa are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 180 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Ali).

Samaraa are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Naft.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Zakho (0-1).

Samaraa has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 3 goals from 9 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Samaraa defense is not exactly impregnable. 14 goals conceded from 9 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Naft Al-Wasat form and stats

4 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Naft Al-Wasat playing as the away team in the Iraqi League this season.

The supporters enjoyed Naft Al-Wasat's previous game versus Al-Qasim (placed 14th), a 4-1 win played at home.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Al Sinaah that ended 0-0.

Al-Wasat are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 8 times in 9 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This isn't the first time these two sides meet this season, as the fixture list show this recent match: Naft Al-Wasat - Samaraa 1-0.

Samaraa missing players

Naft Al-Wasat missing players

Samaraa Naft Al-Wasat
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 9 5 Played P 2 9 19
0 0 0 Won W 2 4 11
4 2 0 Drew D 0 3 4
15 7 5 Lost L 0 2 4
7 3 0 Scored S 3 9 27
29 14 8 Conceded C 0 8 15
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 95%
63% 56% 40% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 78% 79%
26% 33% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 22% 32%
5% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 11%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
37% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 32%
5% 11% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 44% 47%
63% 67% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 26%
 
4.2 3 2 Corners for (avg) C F 4 2.5 2.5
7.2 8.3 7.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 2.5 2.5
2.5 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.5 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
7.5 6 3.5 Shots (avg) S ( 3 7.5 7.5
1.8 1 0.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 2.5 2.5
18% 33% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 30% 30%
 
11.7 9.3 9.5 Shots against (avg) S A 8 7.5 7.5
3.7 3.3 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.5 3.5
Key stats in Iraqi League this season:
  • Naft Al-Wasat have scored more than double the goals of Samaraa.
  • Samaraa have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • Samaraa have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Samaraa have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Samaraa have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the fewest points (2) at home in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the fewest scored goals (7) in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the most conceded goals (14) at home in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the the worst goal difference (-11) at home in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the the worst goal difference (-22) in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Samaraa have yet to win a game.
  • Samaraa is in the worst form (0-0-6)

  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 20 18 2 0 38 11 10 8 2 0 18 6 10 10 0 0 20 5 27 56
2 Naft Al-Wasat 19 11 4 4 27 15 10 7 1 2 18 7 9 4 3 2 9 8 12 37
3 Al Talaba 20 11 4 5 27 16 10 6 3 1 16 7 10 5 1 4 11 9 11 37
4 Al Zawra'a 19 10 6 3 26 15 9 7 0 2 15 7 10 3 6 1 11 8 11 36
5 Al Quwa Al Jawiya 19 10 4 5 24 14 10 7 2 1 16 6 9 3 2 4 8 8 10 34
6 Zakho 20 7 9 4 18 12 9 3 4 2 7 5 11 4 5 2 11 7 6 30
7 Al Najaf 19 8 5 6 17 13 9 4 2 3 9 8 10 4 3 3 8 5 4 29
8 Naft Al-Janoob 20 6 9 5 24 22 10 3 6 1 10 8 10 3 3 4 14 14 2 27
9 Naft 20 5 12 3 12 11 10 2 6 2 4 4 10 3 6 1 8 7 1 27
10 Al Sinaah 19 5 9 5 14 15 9 4 2 3 6 5 10 1 7 2 8 10 -1 24
11 Al Kahrabaa 20 6 6 8 19 22 10 4 3 3 11 10 10 2 3 5 8 12 -3 24
12 Naft Maysan 20 6 6 8 16 21 11 5 2 4 13 12 9 1 4 4 3 9 -5 24
13 Erbil 19 5 6 8 16 21 10 4 2 4 11 9 9 1 4 4 5 12 -5 21
14 Al-Qasim 19 3 11 5 16 22 9 3 6 0 8 5 10 0 5 5 8 17 -6 20
15 Newroz SC 20 5 5 10 18 26 10 3 4 3 9 11 10 2 1 7 9 15 -8 20
16 Baghdad 20 4 7 9 15 23 10 2 5 3 8 10 10 2 2 6 7 13 -8 19
17 Al Karkh 20 2 12 6 13 16 10 0 6 4 6 10 10 2 6 2 7 6 -3 18
18 Al Diwaniya 19 4 4 11 14 29 10 3 3 4 11 13 9 1 1 7 3 16 -15 16
19 Al Minaa Basra 19 1 11 7 15 23 10 1 7 2 10 10 9 0 4 5 5 13 -8 14
20 Samaraa 19 0 4 15 7 29 9 0 2 7 3 14 10 0 2 8 4 15 -22 4