After four games we know a little more about the qualities of Al Ahli and Al Sadd in this fresh Premier League season. Read our match preview!
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Premier League game only four days ago. That game was also an away game, at Al Duhail. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Al Ahli form and stats
As mentioned below, Al Ahli are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 3 Premier League games.
The Al Ahli goalkeeper Ivanildo Rodrigues dos Santos is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 335 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.
Ahli's previous game was a Premier League match also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Al Sailiya (placed 8th). The home side are looking to build on that result. In the match before that, Ahli hosted Umm Salal and drew the QSL Cup game 1-1.
The Al Ahli manager N. Jovović has got the team scoring with 6 from 3 home games in the league. As for guarding their own goal, Ahli have only let in 1 goal at home.
Al Sadd form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (13) in Premier League, are W3-D1-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League.
Sadd play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting Al Duhail (placed 5th). Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Al Khor.
The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Sadd alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (13 from 4 played). It's not easy to score on Sadd as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Al Ahli won three games, zero matches ended with a draw and Al Sadd has seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  S. Cazorla González 3 goals |  T. Nam 3 goals |   N. El Zhar 2 goals |
Al Ahli missing players
Al Sadd missing players
| Al Ahli | Al Sadd | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 75% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 75% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | 29 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 74 | 74 |
| 16 | 14 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 35 | 35 |
| 44% | 43% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 37% | 37% |
- Al Ahli has the fewest conceded goals (1) in Premier League
- Al Ahli has the most clean sheets (3) in Premier League
- Al Ahli has the most points (9) at home in Premier League
- Al Ahli has the most points from losing position (3) in Premier League
- Al Ahli has the the best goal difference (+5) at home in Premier League
- Al Ahli is in the best form (4-0-0)
- Al Sadd has the most points (10) away in Premier League
- Al Sadd has the most scored goals (13) away in Premier League
- Al Sadd has the most scored goals (13) in Premier League
- Al Sadd has the most scored goals in the first half (5) in Premier League
- Al Sadd has the most scored goals in the second half (8) in Premier League
- Al Sadd has the the best goal difference (+10) away in Premier League
- Al Sadd has the the best goal difference (+10) in Premier League
| Al Ahli | Last season | Al Sadd | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 22 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 22 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | ||
| 24 | 12 | Scored | S | 29 | 51 | ||
| 36 | 18 | Conceded | C | 14 | 29 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 73% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 82% | ||
| 59% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 73% | 73% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 55% | 41% | ||
| 5% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 36% | 32% | ||
| 55% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 73% | 73% | ||
| 18% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 18% | ||
| 27% | 36% | Failed to Score | F T | 9% | 9% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.2 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 176 | 92 | Total Shots | T S | 104 | 266 | ||
| 57 | 33 | Shots on Target | S O | 45 | 116 | ||
| 42% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 34% | ||
| 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 Ahli | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 2 | Al Sadd | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 10 |
| 3 | Al Gharafa | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | Al Rayyan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Al Duhail | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Al Wakrah | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | Al Arabi | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 4 |
| 8 | Al Sailiya | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -4 | 4 |
| 9 | Al Khor | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 |
| 10 | Qatar SC | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -3 | 3 |
| 11 | Al Kharitiyath | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -7 | 3 |
| 12 | Umm Salal | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -6 | 1 |
| Last season | 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 Duhail | 22 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 38 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 9 | 22 | 52 |
| 2 | Al Rayyan | 22 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 40 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 25 | 51 |
| 3 | Al Sadd | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 51 | 29 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 14 | 22 | 45 |
| 4 | Al Gharafa | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 34 | 29 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 36 |
| 5 | Al Sailiya | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | -3 | 29 |
| 6 | Al Wakrah | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 28 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -3 | 27 |
| 7 | Al Arabi | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 28 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 26 |
| 8 | Qatar SC | 22 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -8 | 20 |
| 9 | Al Ahli | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 24 | 36 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 18 | -12 | 20 |
| 10 | Umm Salal | 22 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 18 | 37 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 24 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -19 | 18 |
| 11 | Al Khor | 22 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 25 | 35 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 16 | -10 | 17 |
| 12 | Al Shahaniya | 22 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 24 | 43 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 27 | -19 | 16 |