Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Dhofar welcomes Al Nasr

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Competition: Oman Professional League
Competition: Sun 01.November
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The Salalah Youth Complex (12000 seats)

Dhofar and Al Nasr are both riding high in the Professional League with their 2nd and 4th positions respectively. Expect a great game!

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.

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Dhofar form and stats

Dhofar, who have the most scored goals (44) in Professional League, have performed here at The Salalah Youth Complex this season with 7 wins from 12 Professional League matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 3 games and lost 2.

A strong away win for Dhofar against Saham the last match. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Muscat in a game that was won 4-0.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Dhofar home games with this odds we find four games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in one win, two draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, one match were won by at least two goals.

A decent goal production from Dhofar in their home games so far, with 22 goals from 12 league matches. Defensively Dhofar have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (6 in 12 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Al Nasr form and stats

4 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Al Nasr playing as the away team in the Professional League this season. Al Nasr has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Al Nasr played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.

The attacking power of Nasr when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 12 league matches away. Al Nasr have conceded 12 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Al Nasr - Dhofar 0-2. Dhofar-Al Nasr H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Dhofar four wins, Al Nasr two wins, four draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Dhofar missing players

Al Nasr missing players

Dhofar Al Nasr
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
25 12 2 Played P 2 12 25
15 7 1 Won W 0 4 9
6 3 1 Drew D 1 3 9
4 2 0 Lost L 1 5 7
44 22 3 Scored S 1 8 28
13 6 2 Conceded C 3 12 31
88% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 92% 92%
68% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 68%
44% 42% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 17% 40%
24% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 8% 28%
4% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
32% 33% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 33% 52%
56% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 33% 24%
24% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 42% 32%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.7 2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.5 1.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
297 157 29 Total Shots T S 18 59 160
114 65 10 Shots on Target S O 5 16 57
36% 34% 30% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 44% 46%
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Dhofar has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Professional League
  • Dhofar has the most scored goals (44) in Professional League
  • Dhofar has the the best goal difference (+16) at home in Professional League
  • Dhofar has the the best goal difference (+31) in Professional League
  • Dhofar have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Dhofar have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Al Nasr have scored 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 25 15 9 1 36 13 12 7 5 0 17 4 13 8 4 1 19 9 23 54
2 Dhofar 25 15 6 4 44 13 12 7 3 2 22 6 13 8 3 2 22 7 31 51
3 Fanja 25 9 9 7 40 40 13 6 4 3 25 23 12 3 5 4 15 17 0 36
4 Al Nasr 25 9 9 7 28 31 13 5 6 2 20 19 12 4 3 5 8 12 -3 36
5 Al-Nahda 25 9 8 8 35 35 12 5 3 4 15 15 13 4 5 4 20 20 0 35
6 Al-Rustaq 25 8 9 8 31 27 12 4 5 3 21 14 13 4 4 5 10 13 4 33
7 Saham 25 8 9 8 32 34 13 6 2 5 22 20 12 2 7 3 10 14 -2 33
8 Bahla 25 7 11 7 31 25 13 6 4 3 18 9 12 1 7 4 13 16 6 32
9 Muscat 25 8 8 9 34 35 13 6 4 3 18 11 12 2 4 6 16 24 -1 32
10 Sohar 25 9 5 11 27 28 12 4 5 3 11 10 13 5 0 8 16 18 -1 32
11 Al Suwaiq 25 9 5 11 27 29 12 6 1 5 15 12 13 3 4 6 12 17 -2 32
12 Al Oruba 25 7 6 12 21 27 13 5 5 3 14 11 12 2 1 9 7 16 -6 27
13 Oman Club 25 7 6 12 21 37 12 5 3 4 9 13 13 2 3 8 12 24 -16 27
14 Mrbat 25 2 6 17 19 52 13 1 3 9 9 23 12 1 3 8 10 29 -33 12

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.