Stats, recent trends, game results, form, head to head, selected XIs and much more: Here's all you need to know about Al Ahli - Umm Salal!
- Al Ahli have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Premier League
- Umm Salal have the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Premier League
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
The visiting Umm Salal played their last game only four days ago, a Premier League match. That game, against Al Khor, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Umm Salal.
Al Ahli form and stats
Al Ahli have collected 8 points from their Premier League home games so far after 2-2-3.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Yazan Naim Hussein not having conceded a league goal in 191 minutes.
Ahli shared the glory with Al Gharafa in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0.
Before that, Al Ahli had a home game versus Qatar SC which ended with a victory 1-0.This is expected to be a close game, with Al Ahli perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Al Ahli as a small favourite), we find six games. Al Ahli has won three of these, drawn two and lost one.
The lack of attacking qualities in Ahli means that they have only scored 3 goals in 7 league home games, less than half a goal per match. 9 goals have been conceded.
Umm Salal form and stats
3 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Umm Salal playing as the away team in the Premier League this season.
Salal has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Al Khor for a Premier League game that ended a draw (1-1).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Al Rayyan at their stadium, the result 3-2.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Umm Salal in our archives, and the results are: one win for Salal, four draws and three defeats.
Salal has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 12 goals from 7 games. As opposed to that, Salal have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Umm Salal - Al Ahli 1-1 was the end result in these contenders' previous h2h match, played this season. Stats for the prior ten meetings featuring these two contenders are: four wins for Ahli, six draws and zero wins for Umm Salal. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: nine games.Top Goalscorers
  A. Hussein 8 goals | Y. Al Bakhet 5 goals |  P. Eze 4 goals |
Al Ahli missing players
Umm Salal missing players
| Al Ahli | Umm Salal | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 6 | 12 | 20 |
| 16 | 9 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 69% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 92% |
| 38% | 29% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 71% | 85% |
| 23% | 14% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 43% | 46% |
| 23% | 14% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 43% | 38% |
| 15% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 29% | 15% |
| 31% | 14% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 57% | 77% |
| 46% | 43% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 15% |
| 54% | 57% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 29% | 15% |
| 4.2 | 4.4 | 1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| 5.8 | 5.9 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.1 | 4.3 |
| 1.6 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.5 | 8.4 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 5.7 | 7.4 |
| 3.1 | 3.1 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.4 | 3.1 |
| 18% | 14% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 71% | 50% |
| 13.5 | 13.1 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.5 | 8.6 | 9.4 |
| 5.4 | 5.6 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 2.7 | 3.9 |
- Al Ahli have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Al Ahli have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Premier League
- Umm Salal have scored more than double the goals of Al Ahli.
- Umm Salal have the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Premier League
| 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 Sadd | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 27 | 31 |
| 2 | Al Duhail | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 20 | 29 |
| 3 | Al Gharafa | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 23 |
| 4 | Al Arabi | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | -1 | 20 |
| 5 | Umm Salal | 13 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 19 |
| 6 | Al Wakrah | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 |
| 7 | Al Ahli | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -9 | 13 |
| 8 | Qatar SC | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 12 |
| 9 | Al Shamal | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | -6 | 12 |
| 10 | Al Rayyan | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -6 | 12 |
| 11 | Al Khor | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | -17 | 9 |
| 12 | Al Sailiya | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 20 | -19 | 5 |
