Premier League: Al Shabab - Al Kuwait preview and statistics

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Competition: Kuwait Premier League
Competition: Fri 07.May
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Abu Halifa City Stadium (5000 seats)

This could be an interesting match as Al Shabab have their presumed home advantage while Al Kuwait are ahead 2 points in the Premier League table.

Insights:
  • Al Kuwait have the most scored goals in the first half (27) in Premier League

The visiting Al Kuwait played their last game only four days ago, a Premier League match.

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Al Shabab form and stats

2-3-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier League numbers at home for Al Shabab so far this season.

In the match before that, Al Shabab hosted Al Sahel and drew the game 0-0.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Shabab as they are travelling to their away game against Kazma in the Premier League. That match is four days after this one.

Shabab has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. 10 goals have been conceded.

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Al Kuwait form and stats

Al Kuwait have an excellent away record in the Premier League so far with 4-1-1 from 6 games.

A draw for Al Kuwait before that, at their own venue hosting Al Fahaheel (1-1).

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Al Qadsia in just four days.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Kuwait are regular goalscorers on their travels. 7 goals have been conceded by Al Kuwait in these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Al Kuwait - Shabab 4-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Al Shabab won zero games, two matches ended with a draw and Al Kuwait has eight wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three

Al Shabab missing players

Al Kuwait missing players

Al Shabab Al Kuwait
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
28 13 5 Played P 5 13 28
9 3 1 Won W 3 7 14
8 5 1 Drew D 1 4 9
11 5 3 Lost L 1 2 5
32 12 3 Scored S 12 27 53
39 18 5 Conceded C 7 16 31
93% 85% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
75% 62% 40% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 77% 79%
46% 46% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 54% 57%
18% 15% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 60% 46% 39%
11% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 60% 38% 25%
61% 54% 40% BTTS BTTS 60% 69% 68%
18% 15% 0% Clean Sheets C S 20% 23% 29%
29% 46% 60% Failed to Score F T 20% 8% 11%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 1.5 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 2.8 2.6
5 4 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.4 7 6 Shots (avg) S ( 12.2 10.7 10.3
2.9 2.1 1.6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.4 4.8 4.7
26% 24% 12% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 43% 40%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Al Kuwait have scored at least twice as many goals away as Al Shabab have scored home.
  • Al Kuwait have the most scored goals in the first half (27) in Premier League
  • Al Kuwait haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 Nasar 14 10 2 2 26 5 6 5 1 0 12 2 8 5 1 2 14 3 21 32
2 Al Qadsia 14 10 2 2 28 14 7 6 0 1 13 5 7 4 2 1 15 9 14 32
3 Al Salmiyah 14 8 5 1 30 13 6 3 2 1 17 8 8 5 3 0 13 5 17 29
4 Kazma 14 8 4 2 22 10 6 4 2 0 13 4 8 4 2 2 9 6 12 28
5 Al Kuwait 14 7 3 4 25 16 8 3 2 3 12 9 6 4 1 1 13 7 9 24
6 Al Arabi 14 6 4 4 19 17 7 3 0 4 9 13 7 3 4 0 10 4 2 22
7 Al Shabab 14 6 4 4 19 18 7 2 3 2 8 10 7 4 1 2 11 8 1 22
8 Al Fahaheel 14 5 3 6 12 12 8 3 3 2 8 7 6 2 0 4 4 5 0 18
9 Khaitan 14 5 3 6 16 26 7 2 2 3 4 10 7 3 1 3 12 16 -10 18
10 Al Sahel 14 5 2 7 14 15 7 1 1 5 4 7 7 4 1 2 10 8 -1 17
11 Burgan 14 4 5 5 13 16 7 1 1 5 4 10 7 3 4 0 9 6 -3 17
12 Al Jahra 14 2 5 7 13 20 7 1 3 3 9 10 7 1 2 4 4 10 -7 11
13 Yarmouk 14 2 2 10 22 36 8 0 2 6 10 21 6 2 0 4 12 15 -14 8
14 Al Tadhamon 14 2 2 10 14 31 7 0 2 5 4 11 7 2 0 5 10 20 -17 8
15 Al Sulaibikhat 14 1 2 11 9 33 7 0 0 7 5 23 7 1 2 4 4 10 -24 5

Read more about Premier League

The Kuwait Premier League is the top division of the Kuwaiti football pyramid. It was founded in 1961 and has been dominated by the three teams Al-Qadisiya, Al-Arabi and Al-Kuwait. Ten teams play 38 fixtures each to create a final league table. The bottom two teams are relegated.