It's game two of the Premier League season and everything to play for. Read our full preview of Al Sailiya-Al Sadd!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
Al Sailiya form and stats
The first Premier League game here resulted in a draw. Last season Al Sailiya's home game statistics were 4 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats from 11 games.
The spoils were shared in Sailiya's previous game, also at home. Visiting Al Rayyan (placed 7th) travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline. In the match before that, Sailiya hosted Umm Salal and drew the game 0-0.
Al Sailiya has the goal stats of 1-1 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.
Last season, Al Sailiya's league statistics were 8 wins, 5 draws and 9 losses, resulting in a 5th position in the Premier League. Over these 22 matches they scored 22 goals and conceded 25. Playing at home last season Al Sailiya managed 4-3-4 (win-draw-lost) with 12 goals and 12 conceded.
Al Sadd form and stats
A perfect away game record so far for the visitors in the Premier League, but they have only played once. Last season their away game stats were 7 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats from 11 matches.
It's the second away game in a row for Sadd, but there's smiles all around after the 5-1 victory versus Al Kharitiyath (placed 12th) in the Premier League last time out. Prior to that result Sadd won their away game at Al Ahli in the QSL Cup. The scoreline was 2-0.
As mentioned above, Sadd was the only team on the pitch versus Al Kharitiyath in their previous game, winning 5-1. This could be a tougher task.
Al Sadd have the goal stats of 5-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Let's have a look at how Al Sadd performed last season in the Premier League: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 14 victories, 3 draws and 5 defeats. In total they scored 51 and conceded 29 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 7 - drew 1 and lost 3 with 29/14 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
Al Sailiya-Al Sadd H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Al Sailiya zero wins, Al Sadd seven wins, three draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  S. Cazorla González 2 goals |   M. Ali 1 goals |  A. Afif 1 goals |
Al Sailiya missing players
Al Sadd missing players
| Al Sailiya | Al Sadd | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 23 | 23 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 42% | 42% |
| Al Sailiya | Last season | Al Sadd | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 22 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 22 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | ||
| 22 | 12 | Scored | S | 29 | 51 | ||
| 25 | 12 | Conceded | C | 14 | 29 | ||
| 86% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 64% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 82% | ||
| 45% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 73% | 73% | ||
| 18% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 55% | 41% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 36% | 32% | ||
| 41% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 73% | 73% | ||
| 36% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 18% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 9% | 9% | ||
| 3.4 | 2.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8 | 7.7 | ||
| 4.5 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.7 | ||
| 2 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 179 | 95 | Total Shots | T S | 104 | 266 | ||
| 71 | 41 | Shots on Target | S O | 45 | 116 | ||
| 31% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 34% | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Al Duhail | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Al Gharafa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Al Ahli | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Al Arabi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Al Khor | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Al Rayyan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Al Sailiya | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Al Wakrah | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Qatar SC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 11 | Umm Salal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 12 | Al Kharitiyath | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 22 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 38 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 9 | 22 | 52 |
| 2 | Al Rayyan | 22 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 40 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 25 | 51 |
| 3 | Al Sadd | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 51 | 29 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 14 | 22 | 45 |
| 4 | Al Gharafa | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 34 | 29 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 36 |
| 5 | Al Sailiya | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | -3 | 29 |
| 6 | Al Wakrah | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 28 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -3 | 27 |
| 7 | Al Arabi | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 28 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 26 |
| 8 | Qatar SC | 22 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -8 | 20 |
| 9 | Al Ahli | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 24 | 36 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 18 | -12 | 20 |
| 10 | Umm Salal | 22 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 18 | 37 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 24 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -19 | 18 |
| 11 | Al Khor | 22 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 25 | 35 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 16 | -10 | 17 |
| 12 | Al Shahaniya | 22 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 24 | 43 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 27 | -19 | 16 |