Top-drawer Sabah come to Pahang after their 4-1-result against Pulau Pinang. Get out our thorough match preview!
- Pahang have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Sabah have the most points from losing position (12) in Super League
Pahang are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions. For Sabah most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.
It's quite the trip for Sabah when visiting Pahang as the cities are 3800 kilometers apart.
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 Pahang and Sabah.
Pahang form and stats
3-2-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Super League numbers at home for Pahang so far this season.
Pahang drew their last game, also a home match. Johor Darul Ta'zim (placed 1st) was the opponent, 0-0 the score.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Selangor United and winning 4-1.Scoring bonanza? Who knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 14 of the 18 latest league matches with this club has had three goals or more.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Negeri Sembilan are coming to town in four days.
The Pahang fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 9 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Pahang's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Sabah form and stats
As the visiting team in Super League matches, Sabah have produced an overall stat of 5-2-2 so far.
Impressive finishing from bin Bakhtiar, Wilkin and Ramdani secured the home win 4-1 against Pulau Pinang in their previous game. That victory felt good as this side had gone four league games without winning.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Terengganu wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Sabah in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Sabah, 3 draws and 2 defeats.
Betting related statistic: Both sides have scored in 8 of this club's last 10 league matches.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Sabah manager Swee as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Johor Darul Ta'zim.
Sabah have scored 11 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away games in the league.
Head 2 Head
Sabah - Pahang 2-1 was the score in these contenders' last H2H fixture, played this season. Previous ten meetings involving these teams: Pahang won five, Sabah triumphed in two and we saw three draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with under 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Rodríguez Ossa 8 goals | M. Hidalgo Gasparini 7 goals |   T. Park 5 goals |
Pahang missing players
Sabah missing players
| Pahang | Sabah | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 20 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 30 | 11 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 11 | 34 |
| 29 | 10 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 9 | 22 |
| 95% | 89% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 90% | 89% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 75% |
| 70% | 44% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 22% | 55% |
| 30% | 11% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 30% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 15% |
| 65% | 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 44% | 60% |
| 20% | 33% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 20% | 22% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 22% | 15% |
| 3.9 | 2.8 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
| 6 | 5.7 | 8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7.5 | 7.2 | 2.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3.3 | 6 | 5.5 |
| 3.3 | 2.9 | 0.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.3 | 2.8 | 3 |
| 45% | 42% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 44% | 56% |
| 10.3 | 9.7 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 7.9 | 5.3 |
| 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.6 | 2.6 |
- Pahang have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Pahang have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Sabah have the most points from losing position (12) in Super League
- Sabah have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Sabah haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Johor Darul Ta'zim | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 54 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 43 | 50 |
| 2 | Sabah | 20 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 22 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 39 |
| 3 | Terengganu | 20 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 34 | 18 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 38 |
| 4 | Negeri Sembilan | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 31 | 24 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 38 |
| 5 | Kuala Lumpur | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 29 | 28 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 29 |
| 6 | Kedah | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 30 | 34 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 22 | -4 | 27 |
| 7 | Selangor | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 37 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 5 | 26 |
| 8 | Pahang | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 30 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 25 |
| 9 | MISC | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 14 | -11 | 20 |
| 10 | Melaka United | 20 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 22 | 40 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 23 | -18 | 18 |
| 11 | Selangor United | 20 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 49 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 32 | -31 | 14 |
| 12 | Pulau Pinang | 20 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 21 | 42 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 25 | -21 | 10 |
