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.
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.
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 | Statistics | Stat | vs | 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% |
- 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 |