Muscat vs Al Oruba: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Oman Professional League
Date: Fri 31.January
Match begins: 15:50 (UTC)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Professional League, Muscat holding 11th place and Al Oruba lying 13th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Muscat and Al Oruba 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.

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Muscat form and stats

3 victories, 2 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Muscat have to build on here in the Professional League.

The fans are hoping that Muscat will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 2-3 away loss in the Professional League game against Fanja (placed 10th). The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Al Nasr.

A disaster for the home team in their last match (vs Fanja) as a comfortable lead 2-0 was completely ruined into a loss 2-3.

Muscat are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 8 games. Muscat have conceded 9 in these home matches.

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Al Oruba form and stats

Al Oruba have only collected 0 points from their away games in the Professional League, after 0-0-7 (7 played). Al Oruba have been very modest guests so far, leaving with zero points in all their 7 away matches played so far in the Professional League. A depressing seven defeats in a row for Al Oruba in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Sohar.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Professional League home defeat versus Al Seeb with 0-3 on the scoreboard. Before that, Al Oruba secured a home win against Sohar with the score 2-1.

The visitors have scored 4 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. In the opposite end, Al Oruba have conceded 13 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Al Oruba - Muscat 0-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Muscat 4 wins, 3 draws and Al Oruba 3 victories. As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 5 games had two or less.

Muscat missing players

Al Oruba missing players

Muscat Al Oruba
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 8 3 Played P 2 7 15
4 3 2 Won W 0 0 2
4 2 1 Drew D 0 0 3
8 3 0 Lost L 2 7 10
19 10 6 Scored S 1 4 9
23 9 3 Conceded C 3 13 20
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 80%
81% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 71% 60%
44% 25% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 57% 47%
25% 25% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 7%
12% 12% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
62% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 57% 40%
19% 25% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 27%
19% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 43% 53%
 
2.5 2.9 2 Corners For (avg) C F 3 2.2 2.6
3.9 3.9 3 Corners Against (avg) C A 7 3.2 2.8
1.9 2.1 1.3 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 1 1.2
4 2 1 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
 
119 78 29 Total Shots T S 8 28 63
32 22 7 Shots on Target S O 3 10 15
56% 45% 86% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 40% 47%
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Al Oruba has the fewest points (0) away
  • Al Oruba has the fewest scored goals (9)
  • Al Oruba has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2)
  • Al Oruba have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Al Oruba have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Al Oruba have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Al Oruba have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Oruba have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Al Oruba haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Muscat has the most dropped points from leading position (12)
  • Muscat have scored more than double the goals of Al Oruba.
  • Muscat haven’t played a single 0-0 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 Seeb 16 10 5 1 24 10 8 5 3 0 11 3 8 5 2 1 13 7 14 35
2 Dhofar 14 9 3 2 22 6 7 5 1 1 13 4 7 4 2 1 9 2 16 30
3 Saham 15 8 3 4 21 18 8 6 0 2 14 8 7 2 3 2 7 10 3 27
4 Al-Nahda 15 7 3 5 22 19 8 4 2 2 11 9 7 3 1 3 11 10 3 24
5 Bahla 15 5 7 3 19 16 7 4 1 2 8 5 8 1 6 1 11 11 3 22
6 Al Nasr 16 5 7 4 17 18 8 2 4 2 11 13 8 3 3 2 6 5 -1 22
7 Sohar 14 6 3 5 22 19 7 3 3 1 10 8 7 3 0 4 12 11 3 21
8 Al-Rustaq 15 5 5 5 16 12 8 2 3 3 11 7 7 3 2 2 5 5 4 20
9 Al Suwaiq 15 6 2 7 16 19 7 5 0 2 12 6 8 1 2 5 4 13 -3 20
10 Fanja 16 5 5 6 24 29 8 3 2 3 14 17 8 2 3 3 10 12 -5 20
11 Muscat 16 4 4 8 19 23 8 3 2 3 10 9 8 1 2 5 9 14 -4 16
12 Oman Club 14 4 2 8 11 19 6 3 2 1 6 4 8 1 0 7 5 15 -8 14
13 Al Oruba 15 2 3 10 9 20 8 2 3 3 5 7 7 0 0 7 4 13 -11 9
14 Mrbat 14 1 4 9 11 25 7 1 2 4 6 11 7 0 2 5 5 14 -14 7

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.