Premier League match preview: Khaitan versus Al Shabab

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Kuwait Premier League
Competition: Sun 02.May
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Khaitan Stadium (3000 seats)

Getting closer to the top teams is at stake when these two mid-table clubs battle it out. Both will be aiming to improve their league table standing, Khaitan in 9th and Al Shabab in 7th place.

Insights:
  • Khaitan have the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in Premier League
  • Al Shabab have scored at least twice as many goals away as Khaitan have scored home.

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 Khaitan and Al Shabab.

L L L W L

Khaitan form and stats

2 victories, 2 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Khaitan have to build on here at Khaitan Stadium in the Premier League. Khaitan are slowly digging their own grave here at Khaitan Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in eight attempts. The last victory here came in the Al Sulaibikhat match. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Khaitan to get some points in this home game.

Before that game, the home loss against Al Kuwait with the scoreline 1-5.

Khaitan have scored 4 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. 10 goals have been conceded.

D L W D L

Al Shabab form and stats

4 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Al Shabab playing as the away team in the Premier League this season.

Shabab are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 11 times in 7 away games so far. 8 goals have been conceded by Shabab in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Al Shabab - Khaitan 2-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Khaitan three wins, three draws and Al Shabab four victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Khaitan missing players

Al Shabab missing players

Khaitan Al Shabab
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
27 13 4 Played P 4 14 27
6 2 1 Won W 2 6 9
6 2 0 Drew D 0 2 7
15 9 3 Lost L 2 6 11
27 9 4 Scored S 5 19 31
56 29 9 Conceded C 3 20 38
93% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
85% 77% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 86% 74%
59% 46% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 50% 48%
41% 38% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 21% 19%
22% 31% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 11%
52% 46% 50% BTTS BTTS 25% 64% 59%
19% 23% 25% Clean Sheets C S 50% 21% 19%
37% 38% 25% Failed to Score F T 25% 14% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 1.9 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.5 1.4
3 2 2 Red cards R C 0 1 5
 
6 5.7 4.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10.2 8.5 7.5
2.2 1.8 2.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 3.2 2.6
38% 40% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 29% 29%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Al Shabab have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Shabab have scored at least twice as many goals away as Khaitan have scored home.
  • Al Shabab haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Khaitan have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Khaitan have the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in Premier League
  • Khaitan have the most conceded goals in the second half (33) in Premier League

  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.