Iraqi League game guide and numbers: Samaraa host Zakho

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Competition: Iraq Iraqi League
Competition: Mon 10.January
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Samaraa Stadium (10000 seats)

Samaraa believe to fill the stadium for this fixture despite that the season has been rough so far with 4 points and a 20th position in the Iraqi League table. Visiting Zakho have 7th place with 26 pts.

Insights:
  • Samaraa have the fewest scored goals (6) in Iraqi League
  • Zakho have scored more than double the goals of Samaraa.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Samaraa form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Iraqi League this season. Samaraa have only managed 0 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Samaraa Stadium. All in all it has been a very rough period for Samaraa who hasn’t won a league-game in their last 23 attempts. Their previous win was against Al Karkh, 3913 days ago.

Samaraa lost their last game at Naft Al-Basra (placed 8th) after a 1-2 scoreline.

Preceding that match was the home game against Erbil that was lost 1-2.

Samaraa has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 3 goals from 8 games. Samaraa have conceded 13 from these games.

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Zakho form and stats

3-5-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Zakho in their Iraqi League matches away. Zakho are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played seven in a row without losing.

Zakho delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Al-Qasim (placed 11th) in their previous match; a Iraqi League game.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Al Sinaah that ended 1-1.

Zakho are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 9 games (in the league). Zakho are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 6 times in 9 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Previous six meetings involving these sides: Samaraa won one, Zakho were winners in three and we saw two draws. two games with more than 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.

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Samaraa Zakho
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 8 0 Played P 4 9 17
0 0 0 Won W 2 3 6
4 2 0 Drew D 2 5 8
13 6 0 Lost L 0 1 3
7 3 0 Scored S 5 10 17
27 13 0 Conceded C 2 6 11
94% 88% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 67% 71%
71% 62% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 56% 53%
29% 38% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 22% 24%
6% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 22% 12%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 6%
41% 38% 0% BTTS BTTS 25% 33% 35%
6% 12% 0% Clean Sheets C S 75% 67% 53%
59% 62% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 33% 41%
 
4.2 3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 5 3.7 3.7
7.2 8.3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3 3
2.5 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 4 4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
7.5 6 0 Shots (avg) S ( 11 8 8
1.8 1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4.3 4.3
18% 33% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 23% 23%
 
11.7 9.3 0 Shots against (avg) S A 5 7.7 7.7
3.7 3.3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 2.7 2.7
Key stats in Iraqi League this season:
  • 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) in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the fewest points (2) at home in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the fewest scored goals (6) in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the most conceded goals (25) in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the the worst goal difference (-10) at home in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have the the worst goal difference (-19) in Iraqi League
  • Samaraa have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Samaraa have yet to win a game.
  • Zakho have scored more than double the goals of Samaraa.

  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 17 15 2 0 34 10 8 6 2 0 15 5 9 9 0 0 19 5 24 47
2 Al Talaba 17 10 3 4 26 15 8 6 2 0 16 6 9 4 1 4 10 9 11 33
3 Al Zawra'a 16 10 3 3 22 11 9 7 0 2 15 7 7 3 3 1 7 4 11 33
4 Naft Al-Wasat 17 10 3 4 23 14 9 6 1 2 14 6 8 4 2 2 9 8 9 33
5 Al Quwa Al Jawiya 17 10 2 5 21 11 8 7 0 1 13 3 9 3 2 4 8 8 10 32
6 Al Najaf 17 8 4 5 15 10 8 4 1 3 7 6 9 4 3 2 8 4 5 28
7 Zakho 17 6 8 3 17 11 8 3 3 2 7 5 9 3 5 1 10 6 6 26
8 Naft Al-Basra 16 5 7 4 21 17 8 2 5 1 8 7 8 3 2 3 13 10 4 22
9 Naft 17 4 10 3 10 10 9 1 6 2 3 4 8 3 4 1 7 6 0 22
10 Al Sinaah 17 5 7 5 13 14 8 4 1 3 6 5 9 1 6 2 7 9 -1 22
11 Al-Qasim 17 3 10 4 15 18 8 3 5 0 8 5 9 0 5 4 7 13 -3 19
12 Baghdad 17 4 7 6 14 18 9 2 5 2 8 9 8 2 2 4 6 9 -4 19
13 Naft Maysan 17 5 4 8 11 19 9 4 1 4 8 10 8 1 3 4 3 9 -8 19
14 Al Kahrabaa 17 4 6 7 15 18 7 2 3 2 7 6 10 2 3 5 8 12 -3 18
15 Erbil 17 4 5 8 12 19 9 3 2 4 7 7 8 1 3 4 5 12 -7 17
16 Newroz SC 17 4 4 9 15 22 8 2 3 3 8 11 9 2 1 6 7 11 -7 16
17 Al Karkh 17 1 10 6 10 15 9 0 5 4 6 10 8 1 5 2 4 5 -5 13
18 Al Diwaniya 15 3 3 9 11 24 8 2 2 4 9 13 7 1 1 5 2 11 -13 12
19 Al Minaa Basra 16 0 10 6 12 22 9 0 7 2 7 10 7 0 3 4 5 12 -10 10
20 Samaraa 16 0 4 12 6 25 8 0 2 6 3 13 8 0 2 6 3 12 -19 4