Professional League fixture preview: Al Suwaiq versus Sohar

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Competition: Oman Professional League
Competition: Fri 25.February
Match begins: 16:40 (UTC)
Venue: Ferdie Neita Sports Complex (3000 seats)

Al Suwaiq and Sohar have delivered a "par" performance so far, to use a golf phrase. The teams both have mid-table spots in the Professional League.

Insights:
  • Al Suwaiq have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sohar have the most conceded goals (21) in Professional League

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Al Suwaiq form and stats

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

Al Suwaiq lost their last game at Al-Nahda (placed 4th) after a 0-1 scoreline.

Al Suwaiq are not conceding a lot of goals here at Ferdie Neita Sports Complex in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 6 matches.

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Sohar form and stats

As the visiting team in Professional League matches, Sohar have produced an overall stat of 2-1-3 so far.

The manager was unhappy after their last game, played at their home stadium Sohar Regional Sports Complex. Sohar suffered a 0-2 loss to Al-Rustaq (placed 6th).

A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Oman Club.

Sohar are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 6 games (in the league). The Sohar manager has some worries about the defense as 15 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

The most up to date logged match featuring both these contenders is the Sohar - Al Suwaiq 1-1 played not long ago this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Suwaiq five wins, three draws and Sohar two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Al Suwaiq missing players

Sohar missing players

Al Suwaiq Sohar
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
12 6 1 Played P 1 6 13
4 2 0 Won W 0 2 5
3 2 0 Drew D 0 1 3
5 2 1 Lost L 1 3 5
12 6 1 Scored S 1 7 16
10 5 2 Conceded C 3 15 21
83% 67% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
58% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 85%
42% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 54%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 50% 31%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 15%
42% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 54%
42% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 23%
33% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 31%
 
6.7 6.3 6 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2 2
3.7 4.2 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5 3.8 4.7
1.9 2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.2 1.4
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
5.9 7 2 Shots (avg) S ( 5 4.8 5.3
2 2.2 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.2 1.9
61% 46% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 44% 54%
 
4.3 4.8 4 Shots against (avg) S A 11 6 6.7
1.7 1.8 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 2.2 2
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Al Suwaiq have created more than twice as many corners as Sohar.
  • Al Suwaiq have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • All of Sohar's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Sohar have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Sohar have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Sohar have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sohar have the most conceded goals (15) away in Professional League
  • Sohar have the most conceded goals (21) in Professional League
  • Sohar 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 Dhofar 13 8 3 2 22 8 6 5 1 0 16 3 7 3 2 2 6 5 14 27
2 Al Seeb 13 7 5 1 20 8 6 4 1 1 12 3 7 3 4 0 8 5 12 26
3 Al Nasr 13 7 4 2 15 10 6 3 2 1 8 5 7 4 2 1 7 5 5 25
4 Al-Nahda 13 6 5 2 18 9 8 5 2 1 15 5 5 1 3 1 3 4 9 23
5 Al-Musannah 13 7 2 4 18 12 7 3 2 2 11 7 6 4 0 2 7 5 6 23
6 Al-Rustaq 13 6 4 3 16 12 7 3 2 2 7 5 6 3 2 1 9 7 4 22
7 Sohar 13 5 3 5 16 21 7 3 2 2 9 6 6 2 1 3 7 15 -5 18
8 Oman Club 13 4 4 5 20 17 6 2 1 3 10 5 7 2 3 2 10 12 3 16
9 Al Suwaiq 12 4 3 5 12 10 6 2 2 2 6 5 6 2 1 3 6 5 2 15
10 Bahla 13 2 5 6 12 17 5 1 3 1 7 7 8 1 2 5 5 10 -5 11
11 Muscat 12 3 2 7 10 17 5 1 0 4 5 8 7 2 2 3 5 9 -7 11
12 Al-Ittihad 13 2 4 7 6 20 7 1 2 4 3 9 6 1 2 3 3 11 -14 10
13 Nizwa 13 2 4 7 4 18 7 1 2 4 3 9 6 1 2 3 1 9 -14 10
14 Saham 13 0 6 7 8 18 7 0 5 2 3 5 6 0 1 5 5 13 -10 6

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.