The visiting Al Kuwait side should be favourites in this visit to Al Shabab, as the away team holds a 23 point advantage from their 17 league games this season.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Shabab and Al Kuwait.
Al Shabab form and stats
Al Shabab's struggle is real here at Al Shabab Mubarak Alaiar Stadium with only 7 points collected from 8 Premier League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-4-3.
Stress levels are on the rise for Shabab's attacking players as they have now played 180 minutes without scoring in a league game. Ahmed Younis was their last goal scorer.
The Al Shabab crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to Al Sahel here at Shabab Mubarak Alaiar Stadium in a Premier League match. Prior to that, an away loss at Al Qadsia.
Al Shabab has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. Shabab have conceded 16 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Al Kuwait form and stats
Al Kuwait, who have the most scored goals (44) in Premier League, have been very strong on the road so far with a massive 20 points collected from 8 Premier League games. 6 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats is the record so far. Kuwait has been amazing away for a time now, winning four in a row on their travels. The last time they went home with a point loss was against Yarmouk.
Two travels in a row for Kuwait, whose manager W. Nassar Mobarak could celebrate last time after the Premier League win against Al Salmiyah. A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Yarmouk.
The Kuwait manager W. Nassar Mobarak has got the team scoring on the road, with 19 away goals in 8 league matches. Kuwait are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 4 goals away.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Al Kuwait - Al Shabab 3-0. Shabab-Al Kuwait H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Al Shabab zero wins, Al Kuwait eight wins, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  Y. Nasser Al Salman 9 goals | J. Saeed 6 goals |  I. Gueye 4 goals |
Al Shabab missing players
Al Kuwait missing players
| Al Shabab | Al Kuwait | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | 10 | 4 | Scored | S | 7 | 19 | 44 |
| 27 | 16 | 6 | Conceded | C | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 88% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 76% | 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 41% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 65% |
| 18% | 38% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 25% | 35% |
| 12% | 25% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 18% |
| 47% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 50% | 47% |
| 24% | 12% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 50% | 53% |
| 41% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 3.1 | 3.9 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.7 | 4.5 | 5.3 |
| 5.4 | 4.4 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 3.8 | 2.8 |
| 2.8 | 2.7 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 100 | 46 | 11 | Total Shots | T S | 56 | 106 | 204 |
| 36 | 19 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 19 | 42 | 81 |
| 39% | 42% | 60% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 45% | 44% |
- Al Kuwait has the fewest conceded goals (4) away
- Al Kuwait has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6)
- Al Kuwait has the most scored goals (44)
- Al Kuwait has the most scored goals in the first half (21)
- Al Kuwait has the the best goal difference (+15) away
- Al Kuwait has the the best goal difference (+33)
- Al Kuwait have not yet lost a game away.
- Al Kuwait have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Al Kuwait have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Al Kuwait have scored more than double the goals of Al Shabab.
- Al Kuwait haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Al Shabab has the fewest matches over the total-line (3)
- Al Shabab has the fewest points from losing position (1)
- Al Shabab have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Shabab have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- All of Al Kuwait's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
| 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 Kuwait | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 44 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 33 | 40 |
| 2 | Al Qadsia | 17 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 32 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 23 | 39 |
| 3 | Al Salmiyah | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 37 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 29 |
| 4 | Al Arabi | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 28 |
| 5 | Kazma | 17 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 25 |
| 6 | Al Nasar | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | -5 | 18 |
| 7 | Al Sahel | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 32 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 19 | -17 | 18 |
| 8 | Al Shabab | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -11 | 17 |
| 9 | Al Tadhamon | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 21 | 37 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 22 | -16 | 13 |
| 10 | Yarmouk | 17 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 21 | -21 | 8 |