Struggling Al Oruba will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Al-Nahda in the upcoming league round. It’s 12th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
Al Oruba and Al-Nahda 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.
Al Oruba form and stats
Al Oruba have collected 19 points from their Professional League home games so far after 5-4-3. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of five straight victories regardless of arena. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for Oruba, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.
Oruba are confident in defense, having played 367 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
A strong away win for Oruba against Al Suwaiq the last match. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Bahla.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Oruba as they have a new game in only two days, a Sultan Cup match thankfully also at home. Ibri are visiting.
The Al Oruba fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 12 in 12 matches. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Al Oruba have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Al-Nahda form and stats
4-4-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Al-Nahda, who have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Professional League, in their Professional League matches away.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Al Nasr that ended 2-2.
Al-Nahda has another fixture away, a Sultan Cup game, against Dhofar in just two days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
The travelling fans enjoy Al-Nahda's attacking play in away games, having scored 18 goals in 12 league matches away. Al-Nahda's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 18 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Al-Nahda - Oruba 2-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Al Oruba victories, four draws and two Al-Nahda wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.Al Oruba missing players
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| Al Oruba | Al-Nahda | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 24 |
| 7 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 12 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 19 | 12 | 0 | Scored | S | 7 | 18 | 33 |
| 25 | 9 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 18 | 33 |
| 83% | 75% | 33% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 54% | 58% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 79% |
| 42% | 42% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 58% | 62% |
| 4% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 67% | 71% |
| 38% | 50% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 8% | 8% |
| 42% | 42% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.8 | 1.3 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 104 | 65 | 6 | Total Shots | T S | 47 | 93 | 208 |
| 26 | 10 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 20 | 36 | 74 |
| 62% | 100% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 50% | 42% |
- Al Oruba has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Professional League
- Al Oruba has the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Professional League
- Al-Nahda has the fewest clean sheets (2) in Professional League
- Al-Nahda haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Seeb | 24 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 35 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 23 | 53 |
| 2 | Dhofar | 24 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 42 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 6 | 30 | 48 |
| 3 | Al-Nahda | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 33 | 33 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 34 |
| 4 | Al-Rustaq | 24 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 30 | 24 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 33 |
| 5 | Saham | 24 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 31 | 32 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 14 | -1 | 33 |
| 6 | Fanja | 24 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 37 | 39 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 17 | -2 | 33 |
| 7 | Al Nasr | 24 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 27 | 31 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | -4 | 33 |
| 8 | Sohar | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 27 | 27 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 17 | 0 | 32 |
| 9 | Bahla | 24 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 31 | 25 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 31 |
| 10 | Muscat | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 33 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 24 | -1 | 31 |
| 11 | Al Suwaiq | 24 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 23 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -6 | 29 |
| 12 | Al Oruba | 24 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 25 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 16 | -6 | 26 |
| 13 | Oman Club | 24 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 37 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 24 | -16 | 26 |
| 14 | Mrbat | 24 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 48 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 29 | -29 | 12 |