Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Al Hikma & Safa face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Al Hikma's stadium, Fouad Shehab Stadium, has a grass surface. Safa have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Safa when playing on grass; 5 wins, 3 draws and 10 losses from 18 matches. They have scored {13 goals} in these games and conceded 25.
These teams are located so close to each other that their supporters eat in the same restaurants, hang out at the same night clubs and give birth at the same hospitals. This means added importance to the game and a vibrant atmosphere.
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 Hikma form and stats
Al Hikma participated in FA Cup the last season, where they reached the semi-finals.0 victories, 0 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Al Hikma have to build on here at Fouad Shehab Stadium in the Premier League.
The Hikma crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 2-3 to Al Ahed here at Fouad Shehab Stadium.
Before that game, the home loss against Al Akhaa Al Ahli with the scoreline 0-1.Al Hikma has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: {2 goals} from 5 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Hikma defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Safa form and stats
Safa's mission in FA Cup last season failed in the round of 16.Safa are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premier League, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
The attacking players of Safa have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 499 minutes. Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Safa goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 230 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
There were no winners in Safa's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs Tripoli.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Salam Zgharta.It's not easy to score on Safa as they have only conceded 2 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Hikma have avoided defeat in the last 4 games (3-1-0) facing Safa.Top Goalscorers
  B. Sar 4 goals |  A. Diallo 4 goals | O. Al Kurdi 1 goals |
Al Hikma missing players
Safa missing players
| Al Hikma | Safa | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Lost | L | 8 | 13 | ||
| 19 | 6 | Scored | S | 11 | 24 | ||
| 33 | 14 | Conceded | C | 18 | 34 | ||
| 88% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 64% | 55% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 68% | ||
| 32% | 18% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 48% | ||
| 12% | 9% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 4% | ||
| 32% | 27% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 24% | ||
| 56% | 64% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 44% | ||
| 3.9 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.1 | 5.4 | ||
| 4.9 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 3.7 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.3 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 6.2 | 6.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 7.4 | ||
| 2.7 | 2.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.1 | ||
| 19% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 21% | ||
| 9.6 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.1 | 9.1 | ||
| 3.8 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 4.3 | ||
| 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 Ansar | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 21 | 27 |
| 2 | Shabab Al Sahel | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 25 |
| 3 | Al Ahed | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 12 | 24 |
| 4 | Al Nejmeh | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 23 |
| 5 | Bourj | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 23 |
| 6 | Shabab Al Ghazieh | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -4 | 12 |
| 7 | Tadamon Sour | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 10 |
| 8 | Safa | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -7 | 10 |
| 9 | Al Hikma | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | -6 | 7 |
| 10 | Salam Zgharta | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -8 | 7 |
| 11 | Al Akhaa Al Ahli | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 16 | -15 | 7 |
| 12 | Tripoli | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -18 | 5 |
