The home crowds hope for a win and three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use against a stumbling visitor. Sohar are in 8th place while the guesting Al Oruba worry at 13th.
- Sohar have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Oruba have the most conceded goals in the first half (17) 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!
Sohar form and stats
6-1-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Professional League numbers at home for Sohar so far this season.
It's back home for Sohar, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Al-Musannah away with the result 1-0. Sweet to taste a league win after four games without one.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Al Seeb (0-2).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 Sohar have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 6 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 2 and lost 0.
It should be taken into account that a glance at the 23 latest league games shows that 18 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).
The match schedule is unforgiving for Sohar as they have a new game in only four days, a Professional League match thankfully also at home. Oman Club are visiting.
Sohar are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 14 goals in 11 games. Sohar are not conceding a lot of goals here at Sohar Regional Sports Complex in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 11 matches.
Al Oruba form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Al Oruba so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-7 (win-draw-lose).
Oruba go into this game after a win, the home game against Bahla that ended 4-3. A bizarre fixture with heaps of goals last time out for Al Oruba, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that game, will this match be as gleeful?
A 1-4 defeat away at Al Seeb before that.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Dhofar in just four days.
The attacking power of Oruba when travelling is not overwhelming with 9 goals scored from 11 league matches away. Al Oruba have conceded 21 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Sohar and Al Oruba have faced each other earlier this season: Al Oruba - Sohar 0-1. Head to head numbers (for the preceeding ten meetings): Sohar won five games, zero matches ended with a draw and Al Oruba got five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.
Sohar missing players
Al Oruba missing players
| Sohar | Al Oruba | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 23 |
| 10 | 6 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 20 | 14 | 7 | Scored | S | 5 | 9 | 19 |
| 19 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 8 | 21 | 37 |
| 96% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 91% | 83% |
| 43% | 55% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 64% | 61% |
| 22% | 36% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 36% | 39% |
| 4% | 9% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 36% | 26% |
| 4% | 9% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 36% | 22% |
| 22% | 36% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 55% | 52% |
| 43% | 45% | 75% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 18% | 22% |
| 39% | 18% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 36% | 43% |
| 2.1 | 1.8 | 2.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.2 |
| 2.9 | 2.2 | 2.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 2.9 | 2.1 |
| 1.3 | 0.8 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.4 | 0.9 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2.9 | 3.2 | 4.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 4.2 | 3.3 |
| 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.2 | 1.6 |
| 68% | 83% | 70% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 33% | 65% |
| 4.8 | 2.8 | 3.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.5 | 6 | 4.6 |
| 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.4 | 2.6 |
- Al Oruba have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Al Oruba have the most conceded goals (21) away in Professional League
- Al Oruba have the most conceded goals in the first half (17) in Professional League
- Al Oruba have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Sohar have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sohar have won significantly less corners at 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 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 30 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 24 | 52 |
| 2 | Al Suwaiq | 23 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 48 |
| 3 | Al Seeb | 23 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 30 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 17 | 42 |
| 4 | Al-Rustaq | 23 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 40 |
| 5 | Dhofar | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 24 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 36 |
| 6 | Oman Club | 23 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 21 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 35 |
| 7 | Bahla | 23 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 26 | 24 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 33 |
| 8 | Sohar | 23 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 33 |
| 9 | Al-Musannah | 23 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 11 | -1 | 27 |
| 10 | Al Nasr | 23 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 21 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 11 | -2 | 27 |
| 11 | Sur | 23 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 18 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 16 | -10 | 21 |
| 12 | Al-Ittihad | 23 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 28 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 20 | -17 | 17 |
| 13 | Al Oruba | 23 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 37 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 21 | -18 | 16 |
| 14 | Al-Bashaeer | 23 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 17 | 40 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 17 | -23 | 12 |
