Al-Nahda greet Sohar as obvious favourites: Read our football preview

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: Oman Professional League
Competition: Wed 27.Sep
Match begins: 15:40 (UTC)
Venue: Al Nahdha Stadium (17000 seats)

Al-Nahda battle Sohar for kudos and success.

Insights:
  • Al-Nahda have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Professional League
  • Sohar have the most scored goals (11) in Professional League

Al-Nahda have less rest than Sohar in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Professional League game only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Al Nasr.

D L W W W

Al-Nahda form and stats

Perfect Professional League season at home so far for Al-Nahda 2 wins from 2 appearances.

The Al-Nahda manager Azani and his pawns return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Al Nasr (placed 8th).

Before that, a defeat in the away fixture against Al Ahed in the AFC Cup.

Al-Nahda has scored {5 goals} so far and conceded {1 goals} from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

D W W D W

Sohar form and stats

Four points from two away games for Sohar, meaning one draw and one victory in the Professional League so far.

There were no winners in Sohar's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Sur (placed 6th).

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Al Wehda at their stadium, the result 3-1.

Sohar have the goal stats of 3-1 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

Al-Nahda-Sohar H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Al-Nahda five wins, Sohar four wins, one draw. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Al-Nahda missing players

Sohar missing players

Al-Nahda Sohar
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
4 2 0 Played P 0 2 5
2 2 0 Won W 0 1 3
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
8 5 0 Scored S 0 3 11
4 1 0 Conceded C 0 1 3
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 50% 80%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 80%
50% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 60%
50% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 40%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 20%
75% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 60%
25% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 40%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 20%
 
2.8 4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5.5 5.2
0.8 0.5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6.5 3.2
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
5.2 4 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 3.5 5
1.2 1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.5 2.4
160% 250% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 60% 92%
 
1.5 2 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 4 3.4
0.8 0.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 1 1.2
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Al-Nahda have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Professional League
  • Sohar have the most scored goals (11) in Professional League
  • Sohar have the most scored goals in the first half (5) in Professional League
  • Sohar have the most scored goals in the second half (6) in Professional League
  • Sohar have the the best goal difference (+8) in Professional League
  • Sohar is in the best form (3-2-0) in Professional League
Al-Nahda Last season Sohar
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
26 13   Played P   13 26
16 10   Won W   4 11
8 2   Drew D   2 4
2 1   Lost L   7 11
34 21   Scored S   6 24
8 3   Conceded C   14 24
85% 92%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   92% 96%
54% 62%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   38% 50%
23% 31%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   15% 27%
0% 0%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   8% 8%
0% 0%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   0% 4%
23% 15%   BTTS BTTS   8% 23%
73% 85%   Clean Sheets C S   38% 42%
19% 8%   Failed to Score F T   62% 38%
 
2 1.6   Corners for (avg) C F   2.2 1.8
1.6 0.6   Corners against (avg) C A   3.1 2.5
1.2 0.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.5 1.1
1 0   Red cards R C   2 2
 
3.1 2.4   Shots (avg) S (   2.5 2.5
1.2 1   Shots on Target (avg) S O   0.6 0.9
100% 144%   Goal Efficiency G E   43% 89%
 
2.8 2.7   Shots against (avg) S A   5.8 4.1
0.9 0.8   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   2.1 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 Sohar 5 3 2 0 11 3 3 2 1 0 8 2 2 1 1 0 3 1 8 11
2 Al Seeb 4 3 1 0 7 2 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 2 0 0 4 0 5 10
3 Oman Club 5 3 0 2 4 6 3 2 0 1 2 2 2 1 0 1 2 4 -2 9
4 Al-Nahda 4 2 2 0 8 4 2 2 0 0 5 1 2 0 2 0 3 3 4 8
5 Dhofar 5 2 1 2 6 6 2 1 0 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 5 5 0 7
6 Sur 4 1 3 0 6 5 2 0 2 0 4 4 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 6
7 Al-Shabab Club 5 1 2 2 4 5 2 0 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 3 3 -1 5
8 Al Nasr 5 1 2 2 3 4 3 0 2 1 2 3 2 1 0 1 1 1 -1 5
9 Bahla 5 1 1 3 2 4 2 0 1 1 1 2 3 1 0 2 1 2 -2 4
10 Al Wehda 5 1 1 3 5 11 2 0 0 2 1 6 3 1 1 1 4 5 -6 4
11 Al-Rustaq 5 0 3 2 4 7 3 0 1 2 2 5 2 0 2 0 2 2 -3 3
12 Ibri 4 1 0 3 2 5 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 2 1 4 -3 3

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.