A victory to the home team is expected from this match if the league standings is a way to look into the future. The Dhofar club members are confident that the mismatch between 4th and Saham's 11th spot in the table will be visible on the playing field.
- Dhofar have the most clean sheets (5) in Professional League
- Saham have yet to win a game.
It's quite the trip for Saham when visiting Dhofar as the cities are 1100 kilometers apart.
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.
Dhofar form and stats
As mentioned below, Dhofar are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 Professional League games. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Dhofar after consecutive victories at their own ground.
In their previous game, the manager Semida led his Dhofar to a defeat in the Professional League match away at Al-Musannah. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Al-Saada Stadium.
0-0 away at Al Suwaiq before that.It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Dhofar at home in the league. 5 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Saham form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Professional League for Saham with 1 draw and 2 losses from their first 3 attempts. With three draws in a row for Saham the feeling in the team is perhaps one of both relief and disappointment.
Saham's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Al Nasr that finished 0-0.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Bahla.The visitors have scored 2 goals from 3 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. For Saham, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Dhofar six wins, one draw and Saham three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Dhofar missing players
Saham missing players
| Dhofar | Saham | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 9 |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 83% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 83% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 33% |
| 17% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 2.8 | 1.5 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5 | 2.8 |
| 4 | 3.5 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1.5 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.5 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5.3 | 4.5 | 1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6.5 | 6.2 |
| 2.7 | 4 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 1.5 | 1.8 |
| 44% | 62% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 6.7 | 6.5 | 3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 1.5 | 7.8 |
| 2.2 | 2.5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 1 | 1 |
- All of Saham's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Dhofar have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Dhofar have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Dhofar have the most clean sheets (5) in Professional League
- Dhofar have won all their matches at home so far.
- Dhofar have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Saham have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Saham have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Saham have yet to win a game.
| 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-Musannah | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 2 | Al Nasr | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
| 3 | Al Seeb | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | Dhofar | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | Al-Nahda | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 10 |
| 6 | Oman Club | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| 7 | Bahla | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 | Al-Rustaq | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 7 |
| 9 | Sohar | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 7 |
| 10 | Al Suwaiq | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 11 | Saham | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 4 |
| 12 | Al-Ittihad | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -5 | 3 |
| 13 | Nizwa | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | -9 | 2 |
| 14 | Muscat | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -7 | 1 |
