A key match in Premier League as both teams are battling for the top positions. With the home team in 3rd position and the visitors placed 4th, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
This is a local derby, usually meaning added tension and importance.
Al Gharafa form and stats
Overall Premier League stats at home this season for Al Gharafa are 3-0-1 (wins-draw-losses).
Happy days for Al Gharafa in their previous game, a QSL Cup match away at Al Sailiya (placed 6th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. Preceding that game was the home draw versus Al Arabi that ended 1-1.
The Al Gharafa manager S. Jokanović has got the team scoring with 9 from 4 home games in the league. 4 goals have been conceded.
Al Sadd form and stats
Al Sadd have six points from their first three away games in the Premier League, meaning two victories and a loss.
Al Sadd failed to get anything from their last game, a FIFA Club World Cup home match vs ES Tunis that ended with defeat 2-6. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Monterrey wasn't a success with a 2-3 loss.
Al Sadd lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 2-6 beating and focus on this one.
The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Al Sadd alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (11 from 3 played). Al Sadd have conceded 6 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 0 Al Gharafa victories, 3 draws and 7 Al Sadd wins. 7 of these games ended with three goals or more, 3 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Bounedjah 37 goals |  Akram Afif 25 goals |   V. Weiss 8 goals |
Al Gharafa missing players
Al Sadd missing players
| Al Gharafa | Al Sadd | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 20 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 11 | 21 |
| 11 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| 90% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 70% | 75% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 100% | 62% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 60% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 5.6 | 7.8 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 6 | 3.3 | 5.1 |
| 3.6 | 2.5 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 2 | 2.7 | 4.4 |
| 1.8 | 1.8 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 93 | 43 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 24 | 94 |
| 41 | 22 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 7 | 14 | 46 |
| 49% | 41% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 14% | 79% | 46% |
- Al Gharafa have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Gharafa have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Al Gharafa have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Al Gharafa have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Al Gharafa have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Al Gharafa haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Al Sadd has the fewest matches under the total-line (1)
- Al Sadd has the most scored goals in the first half (14)
- Al Sadd have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Al Sadd have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Al Sadd have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Al Sadd haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of Al Gharafa's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Al Sadd's away-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
| 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 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 26 |
| 2 | Al Rayyan | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 22 |
| 3 | Al Gharafa | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 20 |
| 4 | Al Sadd | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 15 |
| 5 | Al Arabi | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 6 | Al Sailiya | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -2 | 14 |
| 7 | Al Ahli | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -1 | 13 |
| 8 | Al Wakrah | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 12 |
| 9 | Qatar SC | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -3 | 12 |
| 10 | Al Khor | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -8 | 5 |
| 11 | Umm Salal | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -14 | 5 |
| 12 | Al Shahaniya | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -14 | 4 |