Sohar vs Al-Nahda preview

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Competition: Oman Professional League
Competition: Thu 02.March
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sohar Regional Sports Complex (39000 seats)

Al-Nahda cannot look for any easy points from their host Sohar in this Professional League game. Here's the thorough match guide!

Insights:
  • Sohar have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al-Nahda have the most scored goals (19) in Professional League

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Sohar form and stats

When playing at home in the Professional League, Sohar have managed 4 wins, 1 draw and suffered 3 defeats from 8 games. Regardless of arena the trend is looking very unhealthy for Sohar with their four defeats in a row. Not since the Al Suwaiq game, 78 days ago, have they avoided a loss.

Sohar are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Al-Ittihad.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Al-Rustaq (2-3).

It should be noted that a look at the 16 most recent league fixtures shows that 13 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Sohar has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. Sohar have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Al-Nahda form and stats

Al-Nahda's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Al-Nahda collect 16 points from their 8 away matches in the Professional League. 4 victories and 4 draws have created these points (and only 0 defeats). The fact that Al-Nahda have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Al-Nahda goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 268 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

The club members enjoyed Al-Nahda's previous fixture versus Al-Rustaq, a Sultan Cup win (1-0) played at home.

Preceding that, 0-0 away against Al-Rustaq in the Sultan Cup.

Few goals the story here? 14 of this team's last 16 league matches have had two goals or less.

Al-Nahda are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only {3 away goals} have been conceded so far. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Al-Nahda have won every one of the 4 latest games versus this side. Another win today?

Al-Nahda - Sohar 1-0 was the result in these participants' previous head-to-head match, earlier this season.

Sohar missing players

Al-Nahda missing players

Sohar Al-Nahda
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
16 8 3 Played P 3 8 16
7 4 1 Won W 2 4 11
2 1 0 Drew D 1 4 5
7 3 2 Lost L 0 0 0
15 11 5 Scored S 3 8 19
11 7 5 Conceded C 1 3 3
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 75% 81%
38% 62% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 50% 44%
19% 38% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 12% 12%
6% 12% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
6% 12% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
19% 38% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 38% 19%
50% 50% 33% Clean Sheets C S 67% 62% 81%
38% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 25% 19%
 
3.1 2.8 0 Corners for (avg) C F 7 4.3 4
4.5 3.6 1 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.2 3
1.9 1.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.3 2.1
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
4.6 5.2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 10.5 5 5.2
1.6 2.4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 1.8 1.7
44% 58% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 64% 59%
 
7.3 4.4 0 Shots against (avg) S A 6.5 4.2 4.9
2.2 1 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 1.7 1.4
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Al-Nahda have not yet lost a game.
  • Al-Nahda have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Al-Nahda have the fewest conceded goals (3) in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the most clean sheets (13) in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the most scored goals (19) in Professional League
  • Al-Nahda have the the best goal difference (+16) in Professional League
  • Sohar have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Sohar haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 16 11 5 0 19 3 8 7 1 0 11 0 8 4 4 0 8 3 16 38
2 Al Suwaiq 16 10 2 4 15 8 7 6 1 0 8 0 9 4 1 4 7 8 7 32
3 Al-Rustaq 16 9 4 3 16 12 9 4 2 3 5 7 7 5 2 0 11 5 4 31
4 Al Seeb 16 6 8 2 15 8 8 2 5 1 6 3 8 4 3 1 9 5 7 26
5 Dhofar 16 7 5 4 17 12 7 3 2 2 9 7 9 4 3 2 8 5 5 26
6 Oman Club 16 6 6 4 13 10 8 4 1 3 7 7 8 2 5 1 6 3 3 24
7 Bahla 16 7 3 6 16 14 8 4 1 3 11 9 8 3 2 3 5 5 2 24
8 Sohar 16 7 2 7 15 11 8 4 1 3 11 7 8 3 1 4 4 4 4 23
9 Al Nasr 16 4 7 5 14 16 8 2 4 2 7 6 8 2 3 3 7 10 -2 19
10 Al-Musannah 16 3 9 4 12 13 8 2 5 1 9 7 8 1 4 3 3 6 -1 18
11 Sur 16 5 2 9 13 18 8 3 1 4 8 9 8 2 1 5 5 9 -5 17
12 Al-Ittihad 16 2 4 10 5 17 8 2 4 2 3 3 8 0 0 8 2 14 -12 10
13 Al-Bashaeer 16 2 2 12 12 27 9 2 1 6 8 14 7 0 1 6 4 13 -15 8
14 Al Oruba 16 0 7 9 9 22 8 0 4 4 2 7 8 0 3 5 7 15 -13 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.