Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Racing & Tripoli face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Racing form and stats
Last season their FA Cup adventure ended in the semi-finals.The story so far in the Premier League for Racing at their home stadium (Fouad Shehab Stadium) is 4 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats.
Racing's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-4 versus Al Ahed.
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Salam Zgharta.Racing are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 14 goals in 11 games. On the other hand, Racing have conceded 15 goals.
Tripoli form and stats
They also participated in FA Cup last season. This ended in the 8th finals.Things could have gone better for Tripoli in their Premier League away matches, but 3 points from 2 games is all right.
Tripoli failed to get anything from their last game, a Premier League home match vs Shabab El Bourj that ended with defeat 0-3.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Al Akhaa Al Ahli in the Premier League.Tripoli have the goal stats of 3-5 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Racing four wins, two draws and Tripoli four victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), nine games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Moghrabi 2 goals | A. Ali 1 goals | O. Al Halabi 1 goals |
Racing missing players
Tripoli missing players
| Racing | Tripoli | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Won | W | 5 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Lost | L | 4 | 12 | ||
| 24 | 16 | Scored | S | 12 | 19 | ||
| 36 | 19 | Conceded | C | 11 | 31 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 90% | 80% | ||
| 76% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 12% | ||
| 8% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 8% | ||
| 40% | 43% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 21% | Clean Sheets | C S | 30% | 32% | ||
| 48% | 43% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 56% | ||
| 1.4 | 0.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0.8 | ||
| 6.6 | 5.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 1.5 | ||
| 0.6 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 2.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0.7 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0.3 | ||
| 41% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 250% | ||
| 7.5 | 4.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 2.5 | ||
| 3.5 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 1.3 | ||
| 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 Ahed | 22 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 40 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 3 | 31 | 59 |
| 2 | Al Ansar | 22 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 53 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 13 | 35 | 49 |
| 3 | Al Nejmeh | 22 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 19 | 48 |
| 4 | Al Akhaa Al Ahli | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 28 | 32 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 8 | -4 | 33 |
| 5 | Shabab Al Sahel | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 32 | 32 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 28 |
| 6 | Shabab Al Ghazieh | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 24 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 13 | -7 | 24 |
| 7 | Tadamon Sour | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 | -5 | 23 |
| 8 | Tripoli | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -12 | 23 |
| 9 | Safa | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 29 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -13 | 22 |
| 10 | Salam Zgharta | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 30 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 18 | -15 | 22 |
| 11 | Racing | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 32 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -10 | 21 |
| 12 | Bekaa Club | 22 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 38 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 24 | -19 | 13 |
| 13 | Al Tadamun Shabwa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |