Enjoying a 0 point lead in the league standings, Al Rayyan club members long to see their gladiators earn full points from this match hosting Al Ahli.
- Al Rayyan have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Ahli have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Premier League
This is a game between neighbours, usually meaning increased stress and importance.
Both contenders have had sufficient rest since their last effort on the pitch. Let's hope for an animated match!
Al Rayyan form and stats
Overall Premier League results at home this season for Al Rayyan are 2-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Al Rayyan are confident in defense, having played 204 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
Happy days for Al Rayyan in their previous game, a fixture away at Al Khor (placed 11th) that ended with a 0-0 victory. Rayyan travelled for their previous game, a trip to Al Khor that ended 0-0. In their previous game, the manager Blanc led his Al Rayyan to a defeat away at Al Khor. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here.
Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against Al Wakrah. Before that, Al Rayyan drew at home versus Al Wakrah. Preceding that match was a defeat to Al Wakrah (3-0).Al Rayyan can score goals in their home matches. After 6 league matches they have found the net 13 times. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Al Rayyan with 13 goals conceded in these matches.
Al Ahli form and stats
Al Ahli have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 0-5-1 (6 played).
Al Ahli played 1-3 against Al Wakrah in their previous match. This fixture can not go any worse than the previous one, the home loss versus Al Wakrah with 1-3 on the scoreboard. Al Ahli had fun at their own home last time out, beating Al Wakrah 1-3. Pozo scored.
Before that, Al Ahli secured a home win against Umm Salal with the score 2-1. Ahead of that game was the 2-1 draw at home against Umm Salal. The game before that, was lost at home, a 2-1 defeat against Umm Salal.As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Al Ahli's match history for similar games we find three matches. The home team won three of these as expected, two of them by at least two goals. Ahli managed zero draws and zero surprise wins.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Al Ahli as they have only managed to score 4 times from 6 away games in the league. 7 goals have been conceded by Al Ahli in these games.
Head 2 Head
Al Ahli - Al Rayyan 0-1 was the result in these teams' last head-to-head fixture, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Al Rayyan seven wins, two draws and Al Ahli one victory. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  Y. Boli 5 goals |  P. Eze 4 goals |
Al Rayyan missing players
Al Ahli missing players
| Al Rayyan | Al Ahli | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 20 | 13 | 6 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 23 | 13 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 20 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 50% | 73% |
| 79% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 47% |
| 64% | 83% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 36% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 27% |
| 21% | 50% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 13% |
| 57% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 40% |
| 21% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 50% | 40% |
| 29% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 47% |
| 4.8 | 4.8 | 7.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 4 | 3.8 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 5.8 | 6.1 |
| 1.4 | 1.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.3 | 1.6 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8.7 | 11.2 | 10.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 8.5 | 8.7 |
| 4.1 | 5.7 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3 | 3.5 |
| 35% | 38% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 22% | 19% |
| 7.9 | 8.2 | 6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 14 | 13.7 |
| 3.8 | 3.8 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 5.2 | 5.5 |
- Al Ahli have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Premier League
- Al Ahli have the fewest scored goals (4) away in Premier League
- Al Ahli have yet to win a game away.
- Al Rayyan have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Rayyan have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Al Ahli have scored away.
- Al Rayyan haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- All of Al Rayyan's home-matches have had more than 1,5 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 Sadd | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 8 | 31 | 34 |
| 2 | Al Duhail | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 39 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 22 | 33 |
| 3 | Al Wakrah | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 25 |
| 4 | Al Gharafa | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 23 |
| 5 | Al Arabi | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | -1 | 23 |
| 6 | Umm Salal | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 24 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 22 |
| 7 | Al Rayyan | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 16 |
| 8 | Qatar SC | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | -3 | 16 |
| 9 | Al Ahli | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -10 | 16 |
| 10 | Al Shamal | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | -10 | 13 |
| 11 | Al Khor | 15 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 20 | -20 | 10 |
| 12 | Al Sailiya | 15 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 20 | -20 | 6 |
