Home advantage could prove decisive in Oman Club - Al Oruba battle

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Competition: Oman Professional League
Competition: Tue 23.May
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Royal Oman Police Stadium (18000 seats)

The stage is lit for Oman Club - Al Oruba! Despite a mixed bag of results so far, this fixture should be awesome!

Insights:
  • Oman Club have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Oruba have the most conceded goals (45) in Professional League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Oman Club and Al Oruba.

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Oman Club form and stats

Oman Club have collected 21 points from their Professional League home games so far after 6-3-4.

An away draw last time out for Oman, facing Sohar in a game that ended 1-1.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Al Nasr (0-1).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Oman Club have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 6 games) they have won 2 times, drawn 1 and lost 3.

Oman Club has scored 15 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches.

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Al Oruba form and stats

There's been little loot from Al Oruba's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 13 away games in the Professional League. Al Oruba only have 1 win to counter their 8 defeats and 4 draws. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Oruba are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Harthy was the last player to score for the away team. Al Oruba haven't scored a league goal in the last 188 minutes.

This match can not go any worse than the last one, the home defeat versus Dhofar with 0-2 on the scoreboard.

Prior to that match, the Al Oruba manager faced defeat when travelling to Sohar and losing 0-3.

We have checked recent matches where Oruba have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 4 games were 1 victory, 0 draws and 3 defeats.

The attacking power of Al Oruba when travelling is not overwhelming with 12 goals scored from 13 league matches away. Al Oruba have conceded 27 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two teams get together this campaign, as the statistics show this recent game: Al Oruba - Oman 0-0. Previous ten meetings involving these contenders: Oman Club won one, Al Oruba were winners in six and we saw three draws. two games with more than 2,5 goals, eight matches with two goals or less.

Oman Club missing players

Al Oruba missing players

Oman Club Al Oruba
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
25 12 4 Played P 4 12 25
9 6 1 Won W 0 1 3
9 2 1 Drew D 2 3 7
7 4 2 Lost L 2 8 15
22 12 2 Scored S 3 9 19
20 10 4 Conceded C 8 24 42
76% 92% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 92% 84%
48% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 67% 64%
32% 33% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 42% 40%
8% 8% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 33% 24%
4% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 33% 20%
40% 42% 25% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 48%
36% 25% 25% Clean Sheets C S 25% 17% 20%
48% 42% 75% Failed to Score F T 50% 42% 48%
 
3.7 4.2 4.8 Corners for (avg) C F 2 2.4 1.9
4.6 5.4 2.8 Corners against (avg) C A 1.5 2.6 1.8
2 2.2 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.2 0.8
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
4.5 4.8 7.2 Shots (avg) S ( 5.5 3.8 2.9
2.3 2.5 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 2 1.4
42% 40% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 33% 65%
 
4.9 5.8 7.5 Shots against (avg) S A 4.5 5.3 4
1.7 1.8 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3 2.3
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Al Oruba have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Al Oruba have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Oruba have the fewest matches under the total-line (8) in Professional League
  • Al Oruba have the most conceded goals (27) away in Professional League
  • Al Oruba have the most conceded goals (45) in Professional League
  • Al Oruba have the most conceded goals in the first half (18) in Professional League
  • Al Oruba have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Oman Club have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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-Nahda 26 16 8 2 34 8 13 10 2 1 21 3 13 6 6 1 13 5 26 56
2 Al Suwaiq 26 16 4 6 36 21 13 10 2 1 19 5 13 6 2 5 17 16 15 52
3 Al Seeb 26 14 9 3 36 14 13 6 6 1 19 6 13 8 3 2 17 8 22 51
4 Dhofar 26 13 6 7 34 19 13 6 3 4 21 12 13 7 3 3 13 7 15 45
5 Al-Rustaq 26 12 7 7 26 23 13 4 4 5 7 11 13 8 3 2 19 12 3 43
6 Bahla 26 11 7 8 34 30 13 6 4 3 20 15 13 5 3 5 14 15 4 40
7 Oman Club 26 9 10 7 25 23 13 6 3 4 15 13 13 3 7 3 10 10 2 37
8 Sohar 26 11 4 11 24 24 13 7 2 4 18 10 13 4 2 7 6 14 0 37
9 Al-Musannah 26 7 12 7 22 24 13 4 7 2 13 10 13 3 5 5 9 14 -2 33
10 Al Nasr 26 7 9 10 21 26 13 3 4 6 10 12 13 4 5 4 11 14 -5 30
11 Sur 26 8 4 14 22 29 13 5 2 6 13 12 13 3 2 8 9 17 -7 28
12 Al Oruba 26 3 8 15 22 45 13 2 4 7 10 18 13 1 4 8 12 27 -23 17
13 Al-Ittihad 26 4 5 17 14 37 13 2 4 7 6 13 13 2 1 10 8 24 -23 17
14 Al-Bashaeer 26 3 3 20 17 44 13 2 1 10 10 25 13 1 2 10 7 19 -27 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.