Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Nizwa & Al-Rustaq face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Sultan Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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!
Nizwa form and stats
Nizwa participated in Sultan Cup the last season, where they reached the 16th finals.Nizwa's struggle is real here at Nizwa Sports Complex with only 2 points collected from 6 Professional League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-2-4.
The Nizwa crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Sohar here at Nizwa Sports Complex in a Professional League match.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Al-Nahda (0-1).This is expected to be a close game, with Nizwa perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Nizwa as a small favourite), we find two games. Nizwa has won zero of these, drawn two and lost zero.
Nizwa has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 1 goal from 6 games. Nizwa have conceded 8 in these home matches.
Al-Rustaq form and stats
Last season their Sultan Cup adventure ended in the 8th finals.The story so far for the visiting team on their Professional League travels is 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
Al-Rustaq go into this game after a win, the home game against Al-Musannah that ended 1-0.
Prior to that result Al-Rustaq won their away game at Al Suwaiq in the Professional League. The scoreline was 2-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Al-Rustaq in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Al-Rustaq, zero draws and three defeats.
The travelling fans enjoy Al-Rustaq's attacking play in away games, having scored 7 goals in 4 league matches away. Al-Rustaq struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 7 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
Nizwa missing players
Al-Rustaq missing players
| Nizwa | Al-Rustaq | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Won | W | 5 | 11 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Lost | L | 3 | 9 | ||
| 13 | 10 | Scored | S | 15 | 31 | ||
| 36 | 17 | Conceded | C | 12 | 29 | ||
| 80% | 79% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 90% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 70% | 72% | ||
| 36% | 43% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 70% | 48% | ||
| 8% | 7% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 24% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | ||
| 40% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 21% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 28% | ||
| 60% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 40% | ||
| 2.4 | 2.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 3.9 | ||
| 4.3 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 4 | ||
| 0.8 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.5 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 8.2 | ||
| 1 | 1.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 2.9 | ||
| 55% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 41% | ||
| 7.9 | 11.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.5 | 7 | ||
| 3.5 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 2.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dhofar | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 26 |
| 2 | Al Seeb | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 24 |
| 3 | Al-Nahda | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 19 |
| 4 | Al-Musannah | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 19 |
| 5 | Al Nasr | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 |
| 6 | Al-Rustaq | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 17 |
| 7 | Oman Club | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 16 |
| 8 | Sohar | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 15 | -6 | 15 |
| 9 | Al Suwaiq | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| 10 | Bahla | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 10 |
| 11 | Muscat | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 7 |
| 12 | Al-Ittihad | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | -14 | 7 |
| 13 | Saham | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -8 | 5 |
| 14 | Nizwa | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | -16 | 4 |
