Al-Nahda favourites for feisty fight facing Al Seeb

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Competition: Oman Professional League
Competition: Mon 15.May
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Buraimi Sports Complex (17000 seats)

This pair of participants are happy with a good season so far and games like this one could be influential. Here's the preview for Al-Nahda - Al Seeb!

Insights:
  • Al-Nahda have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Professional League
  • Al Seeb have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Al-Nahda form and stats

9-2-0 is the performance here at Buraimi Sports Complex so far in the Professional League, giving Al-Nahda a total of 29 from their 11 games here. Outstanding results!

The Al-Nahda goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 226 minutes without conceding a goal in the Professional League.

The Al-Nahda crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to Al Seeb here at Buraimi Sports Complex. Until that game this team had gone six consecutive league meetings without losing.

Before that game, a defeat in the away fixture against Al Ahli Tripoli in the Arab Club Championship. The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Al-Nahda handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

It should be considered that a peek at the 10 latest league fixtures shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored a goal).

Al-Nahda have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Buraimi Sports Complex with 17 goals in 11 league matches. Defensively Al-Nahda have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (1 in 11 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Al Seeb form and stats

6 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Al Seeb playing as the away team in the Professional League this season. Seeb love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.

Al Seeb play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Al-Nahda (placed 1st).

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Al-Ittihad.

Al Seeb have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 11 league away games 14 goals have been scored. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two teams face each other this season, as the results database show this recent game: Al Seeb - Al-Nahda 0-0. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Al-Nahda victories, two draws and four Al Seeb wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.

Al-Nahda missing players

Al Seeb missing players

Al-Nahda Al Seeb
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
24 12 2 Played P 1 12 24
15 9 1 Won W 1 7 12
7 2 1 Drew D 0 3 9
2 1 0 Lost L 0 2 3
30 17 3 Scored S 3 16 32
8 3 1 Conceded C 0 7 13
88% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 75%
54% 58% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 58% 58%
17% 17% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 42% 38%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 8% 12%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 4%
21% 8% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 38%
71% 83% 50% Clean Sheets C S 100% 58% 54%
21% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 33%
 
2.3 1.8 0 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5.2 5.3
1.8 0.6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 3 2.4 2.3
1.4 0.9 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1.4
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
3.4 2.8 0 Shots (avg) S ( 7 5 7.1
1.2 0.8 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 1.9 2.9
95% 150% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 75% 71% 46%
 
3.1 3 0 Shots against (avg) S A 8 3.6 4.2
0.8 0.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 1 1.5
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Al Seeb have created more than twice as many corners as Al-Nahda.
  • Al Seeb have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Seeb have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Al Seeb have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Al-Nahda have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Al-Nahda have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the fewest conceded goals (6) in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the most clean sheets (10) at home in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the most clean sheets (17) in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the most scored goals (17) at home in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the the best goal difference (+16) at home in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the the best goal difference (+24) in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Al-Nahda have won significantly less corners at home than away.

  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 23 15 7 1 30 6 11 9 2 0 17 1 12 6 5 1 13 5 24 52
2 Al Suwaiq 23 15 3 5 27 15 12 9 2 1 15 5 11 6 1 4 12 10 12 48
3 Al Seeb 23 11 9 3 30 13 12 5 6 1 16 6 11 6 3 2 14 7 17 42
4 Al-Rustaq 23 11 7 5 23 18 12 4 4 4 7 10 11 7 3 1 16 8 5 40
5 Dhofar 23 10 6 7 24 17 11 4 3 4 13 10 12 6 3 3 11 7 7 36
6 Oman Club 23 9 8 6 21 18 11 6 2 3 12 9 12 3 6 3 9 9 3 35
7 Bahla 23 9 6 8 26 24 12 6 3 3 16 11 11 3 3 5 10 13 2 33
8 Sohar 23 10 3 10 20 19 11 6 1 4 14 9 12 4 2 6 6 10 1 33
9 Al-Musannah 23 5 12 6 19 20 11 2 7 2 10 9 12 3 5 4 9 11 -1 27
10 Al Nasr 23 6 9 8 19 21 12 3 4 5 9 10 11 3 5 3 10 11 -2 27
11 Sur 23 6 3 14 18 28 11 4 1 6 12 12 12 2 2 8 6 16 -10 21
12 Al-Ittihad 23 4 5 14 11 28 11 2 4 5 4 8 12 2 1 9 7 20 -17 17
13 Al Oruba 23 3 7 13 19 37 12 2 4 6 10 16 11 1 3 7 9 21 -18 16
14 Al-Bashaeer 23 3 3 17 17 40 12 2 1 9 10 23 11 1 2 8 7 17 -23 12

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.