The visiting Saham side should be favourites in this visit to Al-Rustaq, as the away team holds a 6 point advantage from their nine league games this season.
Al-Rustaq and Saham 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-Rustaq form and stats
Al-Rustaq have collected 4 points from their Professional League home games so far after 1-1-3. Three consecutive losses here is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.
Happy days for Al-Rustaq in their previous game, a Professional League match away at Muscat (placed 11th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Preceding that match was the home game against Al Seeb that was lost 0-1.
The Al-Rustaq fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 5 matches. Al-Rustaq have conceded 5 in these home matches.
Saham form and stats
As the visiting team in Professional League matches, Saham have produced an overall stat of 1-2-1 so far.
The manager was unhappy after their last game, a Professional League match played at their home ground. Saham suffered a 2-3 loss to Al-Nahda (placed 6th). A 0-2 defeat away at Al Suwaiq before that.
Saham are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 4 away goals from 4 games (in the league). As opposed to that, Saham have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last four meetings between these two teams are: 0 wins for Al-Rustaq, 2 draws and 2 wins for Saham. Over 2,5 goals: 2 times; under 2,5 goals: 2 games.Al-Rustaq missing players
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| Al-Rustaq | Saham | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 8 | 5 | 3 | Conceded | C | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 75% | 89% |
| 56% | 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 67% |
| 33% | 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 25% | 44% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 25% | 22% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 33% | 40% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 50% | 56% |
| 33% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 33% |
| 44% | 40% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 50% | 22% |
| 1.8 | 1.5 | 4 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 5.7 | 3.8 |
| 2.2 | 1.8 | 5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.7 | 5.9 |
| 1.4 | 1.2 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 49 | 22 | 6 | Total Shots | T S | 20 | 39 | 55 |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Shots on Target | S O | 12 | 15 | 23 |
| 53% | 71% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 27% | 52% |
- 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.
- Saham have created more than twice as many corners as Al-Rustaq.
- Saham have won significantly more corners away than at home.
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| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dhofar | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 |
| 2 | Al Seeb | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | Saham | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 17 |
| 4 | Sohar | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 16 |
| 5 | Fanja | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 15 |
| 6 | Al-Nahda | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 14 |
| 7 | Al Nasr | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
| 8 | Oman Club | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -2 | 12 |
| 9 | Bahla | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 11 |
| 10 | Al-Rustaq | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 11 | Muscat | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 10 |
| 12 | Al Suwaiq | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -6 | 7 |
| 13 | Al Oruba | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | -8 | 1 |
| 14 | Mrbat | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -11 | 1 |