Al Shabab have some lost ground to recover from their 8th position, and the job starts versus Al Salmiyah. Read more!
Insights:
- Al Shabab have the fewest scored goals (5) in Premier League
- Al Salmiyah have scored more than double the goals of Al Shabab.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Al Shabab form and stats
2-1-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier League numbers at home for Al Shabab so far this season.
The home team returns to Abu Halifa City Stadium after drawing with Al Qadsia (placed 4th) on their last time out; the game ended 1-1.
Al Shabab have scored 4 league goals here from 5 matches, not a lot. 6 goals have been conceded.
Al Salmiyah form and stats
Playing away, Al Salmiyah have won 1 game, drawn 2 and suffered 1 defeat in the Premier League this season.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 1-0 against Al Nasar in their previous game.
Al Salmiyah have conceded 7 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The two combatants have battled previously this season: Al Salmiyah - Shabab 2-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Al Shabab victories, two draws and six Al Salmiyah wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Al Shabab missing players
Al Salmiyah missing players
| Al Shabab | Al Salmiyah | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 8 | 17 |
| 14 | 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 70% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 70% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 25% | 20% |
| 30% | 40% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 10% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 50% |
| 60% | 40% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.7 | 2 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4 | 4.4 |
| 5.6 | 4.8 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 5.3 | 4.2 |
| 2.4 | 2.8 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.2 | 7.2 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 9.7 | 8.8 |
| 2.1 | 2.5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.4 |
| 21% | 30% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 57% | 55% | 48% |
| 9.4 | 12.5 | 13 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 10.7 | 9.2 |
| 3.8 | 5.8 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.6 |
- Al Salmiyah have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Al Salmiyah have scored in all their matches so far.
- Al Salmiyah have scored more than double the goals of Al Shabab.
- Al Salmiyah haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Al Shabab have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Al Shabab have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Al Shabab have the fewest scored goals (5) in Premier League
- Al Shabab have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Al Shabab haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of Al Salmiyah'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 | Kazma | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 21 |
| 2 | Al Arabi | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 20 |
| 3 | Al Kuwait | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 20 |
| 4 | Al Qadsia | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 20 |
| 5 | Al Salmiyah | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | Al Fahaheel | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 10 |
| 7 | Al Nasar | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 9 |
| 8 | Al Shabab | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | -9 | 8 |
| 9 | Al Tadhamon | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -8 | 7 |
| 10 | Yarmouk | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -10 | 4 |
