Al-Ittihad vs Sohar match preview

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Competition: Oman Professional League
Competition: Tue 14.February
Match begins: 13:35 (UTC)
Venue: Al-Saada Stadium (12000 seats)

Al-Ittihad hope to get a lot of fans in for this fixture even though the season has been rough up to now with 7 points and a 13th place in the Professional League table. Guests Sohar hold 6th place with 23 pts.

Insights:
  • Al-Ittihad have the fewest scored goals (4) in Professional League
  • Sohar have scored more than double the goals of Al-Ittihad.

Both contenders have had sufficient rest since their last effort on the pitch. Let's wish for an active fixture!

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Al-Ittihad form and stats

Al-Ittihad's results here at Al-Saada Stadium in the Professional League have been very modest with 1 victory, 4 draws and 2 defeats.

Al-Ittihad played out a slightly shocking loss 0-1 against Al Suwaiq in their previous game, also played in front of their own fans.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Oman Club (1-2).

It should be considered that a peek at the 14 most recent league games shows that 12 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Al-Ittihad has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: {2 goals} from 7 games. Defensively Al-Ittihad have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (3 in 7 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Sohar form and stats

The visitors are W3-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Professional League. Three has not been a lucky number for Sohar as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Al Suwaiq match.

Home advantage was not enough for Sohar in their previous game as they lost hosting Al-Rustaq, 2-3.

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Al Nasr's place.

Few goals the story here? 10 of this team's latest 12 league rounds have seen two goals or less.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Sohar as they have only managed to score 4 times from 7 away games in the league. Sohar's manager has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only {3 conceded goals}. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Sohar have pulled off a sequence of 4 consecutive matches without defeat (2-2-0) when playing Al-Ittihad.

This was the end result when the contenders met previously this season; Sohar - Al-Ittihad 3-0.

Al-Ittihad missing players

Sohar missing players

Al-Ittihad Sohar
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 4 Played P 2 7 15
1 1 0 Won W 2 3 7
4 4 4 Drew D 0 1 2
10 2 0 Lost L 0 3 6
4 2 1 Scored S 3 4 15
17 3 1 Conceded C 0 3 10
80% 57% 25% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 93%
40% 14% 25% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 14% 40%
20% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 20%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 7%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
20% 14% 25% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 20%
27% 57% 75% Clean Sheets C S 100% 57% 53%
73% 71% 75% Failed to Score F T 0% 57% 33%
 
2.9 4.4 3.5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3 2.9
4.6 5.1 5.2 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6 4.8
1.8 2.6 3.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.4 1.8
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
3.6 5.6 3 Shots (avg) S ( 0 3 4.1
1.7 2.6 1.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0.6 1.5
14% 11% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 33% 53%
 
4.7 5.4 5.5 Shots against (avg) S A 0 8.8 6.6
2.2 1.9 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 2.8 1.9
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Al-Ittihad have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Al-Ittihad have the fewest scored goals (4) in Professional League
  • Al-Ittihad have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Professional League
  • Al-Ittihad have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Professional League
  • Al-Ittihad have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Sohar have scored more than double the goals of Al-Ittihad.

  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-Nahda 15 10 5 0 18 3 7 6 1 0 10 0 8 4 4 0 8 3 15 35
2 Al-Rustaq 15 9 4 2 16 9 8 4 2 2 5 4 7 5 2 0 11 5 7 31
3 Al Suwaiq 15 9 2 4 13 8 7 6 1 0 8 0 8 3 1 4 5 8 5 29
4 Bahla 15 7 3 5 16 13 8 4 1 3 11 9 7 3 2 2 5 4 3 24
5 Al Seeb 15 5 8 2 14 8 8 2 5 1 6 3 7 3 3 1 8 5 6 23
6 Sohar 15 7 2 6 15 10 8 4 1 3 11 7 7 3 1 3 4 3 5 23
7 Dhofar 15 6 5 4 15 12 7 3 2 2 9 7 8 3 3 2 6 5 3 23
8 Oman Club 15 5 6 4 10 10 8 4 1 3 7 7 7 1 5 1 3 3 0 21
9 Al Nasr 15 4 7 4 14 14 7 2 4 1 7 4 8 2 3 3 7 10 0 19
10 Al-Musannah 15 3 8 4 11 12 7 2 4 1 8 6 8 1 4 3 3 6 -1 17
11 Sur 15 5 2 8 13 17 7 3 1 3 8 8 8 2 1 5 5 9 -4 17
12 Al-Bashaeer 15 2 2 11 12 25 8 2 1 5 8 12 7 0 1 6 4 13 -13 8
13 Al-Ittihad 15 1 4 10 4 17 7 1 4 2 2 3 8 0 0 8 2 14 -13 7
14 Al Oruba 15 0 6 9 8 21 8 0 4 4 2 7 7 0 2 5 6 14 -13 6

Read more about Professional League

The Oman Professional League is the top division of Omani football. It was founded in 1976 and has gone through many changes in format. The current league table has 14 teams playing each other twice to decide the champion.Only four foreign players are allowed in each team.