Al Rayyan will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 7 points behind Al Gharafa.
- Al Rayyan has the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Premier League
- Al Gharafa have scored more than double the goals of Al Rayyan.
Al Gharafa could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Premier League game only four sleeps ago. That game, against Qatar SC, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Al Gharafa.
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Al Rayyan form and stats
Al Rayyan have collected 7 points from their Premier League home games so far after 2-1-3. We have seen two home losses in a row now for Rayyan, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.
Rayyan's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus Al Sailiya (placed 8th). Before that match, a win away at Al Khor.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Rayyan here in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 6 games). Al Rayyan's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 6 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Al Gharafa form and stats
Playing away, Al Gharafa have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 2 defeats in the Premier League this season.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Qatar SC (placed 5th) in their previous outing. The Premier League match ended in a draw 2-2. A draw for Gharafa before that, at their own venue hosting Umm Salal (1-1).
An inspired comeback made the scores level in Gharafa's duel with Qatar SC. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after J. Kodjia found the equalizer.
Gharafa have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 14 goals from 6 away matches. Gharafa have conceded 11 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Al Gharafa - Rayyan 1-3, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Rayyan victories, two draws and six Al Gharafa wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Kodjia 7 goals |   Y. Boli 5 goals |  Y. Brahimi 4 goals |
Al Rayyan missing players
Al Gharafa missing players
| Al Rayyan | Al Gharafa | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 6 | 14 | 27 |
| 11 | 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 7 | 11 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 67% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 17% | 17% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 67% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 33% | 25% |
| 50% | 33% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 58% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 25% | 33% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.4 | 2.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.9 | 6.7 | 4.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14 | 12.5 | 11.6 |
| 3.8 | 2.8 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 5 | 4.2 |
| 26% | 29% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 47% | 54% |
- Al Gharafa have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Al Gharafa have scored in all their matches so far.
- Al Gharafa have scored more than double the goals of Al Rayyan.
- Al Gharafa haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Al Rayyan has the most dropped points from leading position (9) in Premier League
- Al Rayyan haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of Al Gharafa's away-matches have had more than 2,5 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 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 7 | 33 | 32 |
| 2 | Al Duhail | 12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 27 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 24 |
| 3 | Al Gharafa | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 23 |
| 4 | Al Ahli | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | -3 | 22 |
| 5 | Qatar SC | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
| 6 | Al Rayyan | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 16 |
| 7 | Al Arabi | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -4 | 15 |
| 8 | Al Sailiya | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | -4 | 15 |
| 9 | Al Wakrah | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 7 | -4 | 13 |
| 10 | Umm Salal | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -9 | 10 |
| 11 | Al Khor | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 20 | -16 | 7 |
| 12 | Al Kharitiyath | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 18 | -22 | 6 |