Match preview: Sohar likely to defeat Bahla at Sohar Regional Sports Complex

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Competition: Oman Professional League
Competition: Tue 12.April
Match begins: 18:15 (UTC)
Venue: Sohar Regional Sports Complex (39000 seats)

Professional League: What this game might not have in glamour it should make up for in tempo and dedication. Get set for Sohar - Bahla!

Insights:
  • Sohar have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Professional League
  • Bahla is in the worst form (0-2-4)

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Sohar form and stats

When playing at home in the Professional League, Sohar have managed 4 wins, 2 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 9 games.

Sohar haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 256 minutes ago. Muqbali scored that one.

Sohar lost their last game at Al Seeb (placed 1st) after a 0-1 scoreline.

Preceding that match was the home game against Al-Nahda that was lost 0-1.

Sohar has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Sohar have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Bahla form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Bahla so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 1-4-5 (win-draw-lose). Bahla are desperate to end a 15-game winless run, as they haven't won a game since the Al Suwaiq fixture.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Saham (placed 14th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 0-0.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Al-Musannah.

The visitors have scored 7 goals from 10 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 12 goals have been conceded by Bahla in these games.

Head 2 Head

This happened when the participants faced each other earlier this campaign; Bahla - Sohar 1-1. Last three meetings involving these contenders: Sohar won zero, Bahla triumphed in one and we saw two draws. one game with over 2,5 goals, two matches with two goals or less. The games between these clubs have sometimes been "violent", having seen 2 sending-offs from the last three duels.

Sohar missing players

Bahla missing players

Sohar Bahla
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 4 10 18
6 4 2 Won W 1 1 2
5 2 0 Drew D 1 4 7
7 3 0 Lost L 2 5 9
19 11 5 Scored S 4 7 15
25 8 2 Conceded C 6 12 23
89% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 89%
72% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 60% 61%
44% 44% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 33%
22% 11% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 10% 11%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
50% 44% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 56%
22% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 30% 22%
39% 44% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 40% 33%
 
2.3 2.8 2 Corners for (avg) C F 2.2 3.5 2.7
3.9 6 4 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 4.1 3.7
1.6 2.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.9 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
5.3 6.5 3 Shots (avg) S ( 7 6.6 5.2
1.6 1.8 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 2 1.6
44% 43% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 43% 50%
 
5.6 8.5 13 Shots against (avg) S A 7.3 8.3 6.9
2.1 3 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.7 3.1 2.7
Key stats in Professional League this season:
  • Bahla have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Bahla have the fewest matches over the total-line (1) in Professional League
  • Bahla have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Bahla is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Sohar have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • Sohar have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in Professional League
  • Sohar have won significantly more corners at 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 Seeb 18 11 5 2 33 12 9 7 1 1 22 4 9 4 4 1 11 8 21 38
2 Dhofar 18 11 5 2 31 12 9 6 3 0 23 7 9 5 2 2 8 5 19 38
3 Al-Nahda 18 11 5 2 27 10 10 7 2 1 20 6 8 4 3 1 7 4 17 38
4 Al-Musannah 18 9 3 6 24 19 10 4 3 3 14 11 8 5 0 3 10 8 5 30
5 Al Nasr 18 8 6 4 18 14 9 4 4 1 10 6 9 4 2 3 8 8 4 30
6 Al-Rustaq 18 8 5 5 21 15 9 4 2 3 10 6 9 4 3 2 11 9 6 29
7 Oman Club 18 6 6 6 24 21 8 3 2 3 11 5 10 3 4 3 13 16 3 24
8 Sohar 18 6 5 7 19 25 9 4 2 3 11 8 9 2 3 4 8 17 -6 23
9 Al Suwaiq 18 5 6 7 18 19 8 2 4 2 8 7 10 3 2 5 10 12 -1 21
10 Muscat 18 5 4 9 17 24 9 3 0 6 11 14 9 2 4 3 6 10 -7 19
11 Nizwa 18 3 5 10 8 26 9 2 2 5 5 10 9 1 3 5 3 16 -18 14
12 Bahla 18 2 7 9 15 23 8 1 3 4 8 11 10 1 4 5 7 12 -8 13
13 Al-Ittihad 18 2 7 9 9 28 9 1 4 4 4 10 9 1 3 5 5 18 -19 13
14 Saham 18 0 9 9 9 25 10 0 7 3 4 7 8 0 2 6 5 18 -16 9

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.