Can Al-Rustaq beat Fanja?

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Competition: Oman Professional League
Date: Fri 20.December
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)

4th position in the Professional League table for Al-Rustaq so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 9th-placed Fanja visits.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Al-Rustaq form and stats

2-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Professional League numbers at home for Al-Rustaq so far this season.

Happy days for Al-Rustaq in their previous game, a Professional League match away at Al Nasr (placed 8th) that ended with a 2-0 victory. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Saham in a game that was won 5-1.

Al-Rustaq have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 10 goals in 6 league matches. Al-Rustaq's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 6 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Fanja form and stats

As the visiting team in Professional League matches, Fanja, who have the most scored goals (18) in Professional League, have produced an overall stat of 2-1-3 so far.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Professional League home defeat versus Al-Nahda with 2-4 on the scoreboard. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Al Suwaiq wasn't a success with a 1-3 loss.

A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Fanja, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?

Fanja are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 6 away games so far. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Fanja have conceded 11 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Al-Rustaq-Fanja H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Al-Rustaq 0 wins, Fanja 0 wins, 2 draws. 1 of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Al-Rustaq missing players

Fanja missing players

Al-Rustaq Fanja
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
11 6 1 Played P 1 6 11
5 2 0 Won W 0 2 4
2 1 0 Drew D 0 1 3
4 3 1 Lost L 1 3 4
15 10 1 Scored S 1 9 18
9 6 2 Conceded C 2 11 20
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
64% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 91%
36% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 82%
9% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 36%
9% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 27%
36% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 91%
36% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 9%
36% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 9%
 
1.8 1.6 4 Corners For (avg) C F 3 2.8 4.1
2.9 3.2 5 Corners Against (avg) C A 13 5.5 5.1
1.1 1 2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 1.8 2.1
1 1 1 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
 
65 27 6 Total Shots T S 8 61 121
23 12 1 Shots on Target S O 5 21 49
65% 83% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 24% 29%
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Al-Rustaq have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al-Rustaq haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • All of Fanja's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Fanja has the most conceded goals in the second half (12)
  • Fanja has the most dropped points from leading position (11)
  • Fanja has the most scored goals (18)
  • Fanja has the most scored goals in the first half (10)
  • Fanja have created more than twice as many corners as Al-Rustaq.
  • Fanja have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Fanja have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Fanja have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Fanja have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Fanja 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 11 7 3 1 16 8 6 4 2 0 9 3 5 3 1 1 7 5 8 24
2 Dhofar 10 6 3 1 15 4 5 4 1 0 11 3 5 2 2 1 4 1 11 21
3 Saham 11 6 2 3 17 15 6 5 0 1 12 6 5 1 2 2 5 9 2 20
4 Al-Rustaq 11 5 2 4 15 9 6 2 1 3 10 6 5 3 1 1 5 3 6 17
5 Bahla 11 4 5 2 16 13 5 3 1 1 6 3 6 1 4 1 10 10 3 17
6 Al-Nahda 11 5 2 4 17 15 6 2 2 2 7 7 5 3 0 2 10 8 2 17
7 Sohar 11 5 2 4 17 15 6 3 2 1 9 7 5 2 0 3 8 8 2 17
8 Al Nasr 10 5 2 3 11 10 4 2 1 1 7 7 6 3 1 2 4 3 1 17
9 Fanja 11 4 3 4 18 20 5 2 2 1 9 9 6 2 1 3 9 11 -2 15
10 Oman Club 11 4 1 6 10 15 5 3 1 1 5 3 6 1 0 5 5 12 -5 13
11 Muscat 10 3 2 5 11 13 6 2 1 3 7 8 4 1 1 2 4 5 -2 11
12 Al Suwaiq 11 3 2 6 11 17 5 3 0 2 9 6 6 0 2 4 2 11 -6 11
13 Al Oruba 11 1 2 8 6 14 5 1 2 2 3 3 6 0 0 6 3 11 -8 5
14 Mrbat 10 0 3 7 8 20 5 0 1 4 3 10 5 0 2 3 5 10 -12 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.