Premier League match preview and statistics: Al Salt fight Al Ahli

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Competition: Jordan Premier League
Competition: Mon 11.January
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: King Abdullah International Stadium (25000 seats)

A home win is expected from this fixture if the league table is anything to judge by. The Al Salt fans are optimistic that the difference between 4th and Al Ahli's 12th place in the table will show on the pitch.

Insights:
  • Al Ahli has the fewest scored goals (14) in Premier League

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!

It should be mentioned that Al Ahli play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Al Ahli on grass are 9 victories, 14 draws and 20 defeats from 43 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 42-61. You can compare this with overall results below.

Salt can neither be promoted or relegated from Premier League. For Al Ahli it's their last days at this level as relegation is a fact.

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Al Salt form and stats

The story so far in the Premier League for Al Salt at their home stadium (King Abdullah International Stadium) is 4 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of four straight victories regardless of arena. Two home wins in a row for Salt bring valid hopes of a third.

It's back home for Al Salt, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Al Faysali away with the result 2-1. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Al Sareeh in a game that was won 2-0.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Salt here at King Abdullah International Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (9 from 10 games). It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. On the other hand, Salt have conceded 10 goals.

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Al Ahli form and stats

There's been little loot from Al Ahli's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 10 away games in the Premier League. Al Ahli, who have the fewest scored goals (14) in Premier League, only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 4 draws.

Preceding that match was the 3-3 draw at home vs Al Faysali.

The attacking power of Ahli when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 10 league matches away. 10 goals have been conceded by Ahli in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

Al Ahli - Salt 0-3 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Numbers for the last three meetings between these two teams are: one win for Salt, one draw and one win for Al Ahli. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: one game.

Al Salt missing players

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Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 3 10 20
8 4 2 Won W 0 2 2
6 2 1 Drew D 1 4 7
6 4 0 Lost L 2 4 11
30 9 3 Scored S 2 7 14
20 10 0 Conceded C 6 10 34
80% 80% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 85%
65% 50% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 50% 60%
50% 30% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 20% 45%
20% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 20% 35%
15% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
40% 30% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 30% 35%
45% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 40% 25%
35% 40% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 50% 55%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.1 1.6 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.6 1.6
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.8 10.1 10.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.3 7.2 7.6
3.7 3.1 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.8 2.4
39% 29% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 18% 26%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Al Ahli has the fewest scored goals (14) in Premier League
  • Al Ahli has the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Premier League
  • Al Ahli has the the worst goal difference (-20) in Premier League
  • Al Ahli have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Al Salt have scored more than double the goals of Al Ahli.

  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 Wihdat 20 16 2 2 39 8 10 7 1 2 16 5 10 9 1 0 23 3 31 50
2 Al Ramtha 20 11 5 4 30 19 10 6 2 2 20 13 10 5 3 2 10 6 11 38
3 Al Jazeera 20 11 5 4 33 24 10 6 1 3 16 14 10 5 4 1 17 10 9 38
4 Al Salt 20 8 6 6 30 20 10 4 2 4 9 10 10 4 4 2 21 10 10 30
5 Al Hussein 20 7 6 7 22 24 9 2 4 3 8 10 11 5 2 4 14 14 -2 27
6 Al Faysali 20 5 9 6 23 25 10 1 6 3 7 10 10 4 3 3 16 15 -2 24
7 Ma'an 20 4 11 5 17 20 10 1 5 4 8 13 10 3 6 1 9 7 -3 23
8 Shabab Al Ordon 20 5 7 8 29 36 11 1 5 5 13 20 9 4 2 3 16 16 -7 22
9 Aqaba 20 3 11 6 20 22 10 2 6 2 8 9 10 1 5 4 12 13 -2 20
10 Al Sareeh 20 5 5 10 21 30 10 3 3 4 11 12 10 2 2 6 10 18 -9 20
11 Sahab 20 3 6 11 16 32 10 1 2 7 9 22 10 2 4 4 7 10 -16 15
12 Al Ahli 20 2 7 11 14 34 10 0 3 7 7 24 10 2 4 4 7 10 -20 13