Al Seeb vs Al Suwaiq preview: Sultan Cup Semi-finals leg 1 of 2

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Competition: Oman Sultan Cup
Competition: Mon 20.February
Match begins: 13:20 (UTC)
Venue: Al-Seeb Stadium (14000 seats)

The league table is allowed to rest as Al Seeb and Al Suwaiq battle for Sultan Cup honors in this first Semi-finals leg of two fixtures.

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Al Seeb form and stats

Al Seeb have collected 11 points from their Professional League home games so far after 2-5-1.

A strong away win for Al Seeb against Sur the last match.

In the fixture before, 0-0 away to Al-Shabab Club (Sultan Cup). The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Seeb handle that role? We have found 7 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat.

Al Seeb aren't scoring a lot here at Al-Seeb Stadium in the league, with only {6 goals} from 8 games. Al Seeb have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only {3 goals}.

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Al Suwaiq form and stats

Suwaiq's mission in Sultan Cup last season failed in the quarter-finals.

4-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Al Suwaiq in their Professional League matches away.

The Al Suwaiq goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 315 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Al Suwaiq play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Al Nasr.

Earlier, the Sultan Cup win away at Al-Bashaeer. Suwaiq are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 2 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

The visitors have scored 7 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (8 so far).

Head 2 Head

Last ten meetings with these teams: Al Seeb won six, Al Suwaiq triumphed in two and we saw two draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with less than 2,5 goals.

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Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 12   Played P   12 25
13 6   Won W   5 14
9 5   Drew D   2 4
3 1   Lost L   5 7
34 15   Scored S   9 25
11 3   Conceded C   10 17
72% 67%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   92% 92%
56% 50%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   50% 48%
40% 25%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   17% 20%
12% 8%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   0% 8%
0% 0%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   0% 0%
28% 17%   BTTS BTTS   25% 16%
64% 75%   Clean Sheets C S   33% 56%
36% 42%   Failed to Score F T   50% 36%
 
5 5.5   Corners for (avg) C F   3.3 3.7
2.1 2.3   Corners against (avg) C A   3.9 4.1
1.5 1.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.4 2.2
2 2   Red cards R C   1 1
 
8.4 8.7   Shots (avg) S (   7.1 5.5
4 4.3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2 1.8
34% 28%   Goal Efficiency G E   43% 54%
 
4.9 4.9   Shots against (avg) S A   6.3 4.4
1.8 1.6   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   2.9 1.9

  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