Al Nasr will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 5 points behind Dhofar.
Al Nasr and Dhofar should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
Al Nasr form and stats
Al Nasr have collected 8 points from their Professional League home games so far after 2-2-1.
The home team returns after sharing the points with Sohar (placed 8th) on their last time out; the Professional League game ended 1-1. In the match before that, Al Nasr hosted Muscat and drew the game 2-2.
The Al Nasr fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 8 goals in 5 league matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 8 goals have been conceded.
Dhofar form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most clean sheets (6) in Professional League, on their Professional League travels is 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Dhofar, as they have won on their previous two travels.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Professional League home defeat versus Saham with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Before that, Dhofar secured a home win against Mrbat with the score 2-0.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Dhofar as they have only managed to score 4 times from 5 away games in the league. Dhofar are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 1 goal away.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 2 Al Nasr victories, 4 draws and 4 Dhofar wins. 5 of these games ended with three goals or more, 5 matches with two goals or less.Al Nasr missing players
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| Al Nasr | Dhofar | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| 12 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 83% | 80% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 60% | 83% |
| 50% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 20% | 58% |
| 33% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 20% | 33% |
| 25% | 60% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 17% | 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 42% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 33% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 80% | 58% |
| 42% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 60% | 33% |
| 4.4 | 4.6 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.8 | 5.5 |
| 3.1 | 3.6 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 1.3 | 1.8 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 81 | 53 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 34 | 128 |
| 23 | 16 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 6 | 47 |
| 52% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 17% | 30% |
- Al Nasr has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1)
- Al Nasr have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Dhofar has the fewest conceded goals (1) away
- Dhofar has the fewest conceded goals (5)
- Dhofar has the most clean sheets (6)
- Dhofar has the most matches under the total-line (7)
- Dhofar has the the best goal difference (+12)
- Dhofar has the the best goal difference (+3) away
- Dhofar have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Dhofar have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
| 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 Seeb | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 27 |
| 2 | Dhofar | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 24 |
| 3 | Saham | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 23 |
| 4 | Al-Nahda | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 20 |
| 5 | Al Nasr | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 19 |
| 6 | Al-Rustaq | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 18 |
| 7 | Bahla | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 18 |
| 8 | Sohar | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 18 |
| 9 | Fanja | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -2 | 16 |
| 10 | Al Suwaiq | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -4 | 14 |
| 11 | Oman Club | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -5 | 14 |
| 12 | Muscat | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 12 |
| 13 | Al Oruba | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 13 | -9 | 5 |
| 14 | Mrbat | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | -16 | 3 |