Al Duhail fearless before departure for Al Sailiya clash

There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.

It's no vacation for neither Al Sailiya nor Al Duhail as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

Al Sailiya form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premier League this season. Al Sailiya, who have the fewest scored goals (6) in Premier League, have only managed 0 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses from their games here. All in all it has been a very rough period for Sailiya who hasn’t won a league-game in their last twelve attempts. Their previous win was against Al Shamal, 122 days ago.

Stress levels are on the rise for Al Sailiya's attacking players as they have now played 460 minutes without scoring in a league game. Rezaeian was their last goal scorer.

Sailiya's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Al Arabi (placed 4th).

Ahead of that match, Al Sailiya lost 0-2 at home to Al Shamal.

Despite playing at their own arena the home team are massive underdogs in this game. The home fans will enjoy their drinks and snacks knowing that the chances of a positive outcome are very slim. When Al Sailiya have been in this position before, they have won zero, drawn zero and lost four from four games. four defeats by at least two goals.

Al Sailiya have scored 0 goals here in 6 league matches, a depressing statistic. On the other hand, Sailiya have conceded 6 goals.

Al Duhail form and stats

Al Duhail's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Al Duhail collect 15 points from their 7 away matches in the Premier League. 5 victories and 0 draws have created these points (and only 2 defeats). Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Al Duhail are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.

Al Duhail play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 4-2 victory visiting Al Gharafa (placed 3rd). A loony match with heaps of goals last time out for Al Duhail, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that match, will this fixture be as gleeful?

Before that, Al Duhail secured a home win against Al Arabi with the score 2-0.

Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Al Duhail given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed five matches with five wins as expected, zero draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won one of these games by at least two goals.

Al Duhail create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 19 goals in 7 travels. 10 goals have been conceded by Al Duhail in these games.

Head 2 Head

Al Duhail - Sailiya 5-0 was the scoreline in these contenders' last h2h fixture, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Al Sailiya two wins, one draw and Al Duhail seven victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

M. Olunga Ogada 16 goals

A. Abdulla 5 goals

E. da Silva 3 goals

Al Sailiya missing players

Al Duhail missing players