The guesting Al Gharafa side are thought to be front runners at Al Shamal, as the away side hold a 10 point advantage from their eleven league fixtures this season.
- Al Shamal have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Gharafa have the most clean sheets (7) in Premier League
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Al Shamal form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premier League this season. Al Shamal have only managed 2 wins, 0 draws and 4 losses from their games here.
Shamal's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Al Rayyan (placed 8th).
A 1-1 draw away before that, with Al Wakrah the opponent.There will be little rest for Al Shamal after this match as they are travelling to Al Sailiya for a Premier League game in only four days.
Al Shamal have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 10 goals in 6 league matches. Al Shamal have conceded 10 from these games.
Al Gharafa form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most clean sheets (7) in Premier League, on their Premier League travels is 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.
The Gharafa goalkeeper Yousef Hassan Mohamed Ali is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 294 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Gharafa won their last game, 3-0 versus Al Sailiya played at home.
Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Al Arabi.After this away game Gharafa return home for a Premier League game against Al Ahli. That game is only four sleeps after this.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Gharafa are regular goalscorers on their travels. Al Gharafa have conceded 9 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The squads have faced each other previously this season, with the result Al Gharafa - Shamal 2-0 written in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Shamal two wins, zero draws and Al Gharafa eight victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Diabaté 6 goals |   B. Mohammad Seif 4 goals | J. Medina Escobar 3 goals |
Al Shamal missing players
Al Gharafa missing players
| Al Shamal | Al Gharafa | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 14 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 19 |
| 21 | 10 | 4 | Conceded | C | 0 | 9 | 12 |
| 91% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 82% | 83% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 64% |
| 55% | 83% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 36% |
| 36% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 27% |
| 18% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 18% |
| 64% | 67% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 18% |
| 18% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 64% |
| 27% | 17% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 2.8 | 2.5 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5 | 4.3 |
| 4.8 | 3.8 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 3.2 | 4.4 |
| 1.2 | 1.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.8 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.6 | 8.2 | 7.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 11 | 11.4 |
| 4.5 | 4.3 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 5 | 4.5 |
| 28% | 38% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 40% | 39% |
| 10.6 | 7.8 | 6.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 3 | 9 | 10.4 |
| 5.1 | 4.2 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 4.5 | 4.3 |
- Al Gharafa have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Al Gharafa have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Al Gharafa have the most clean sheets (7) in Premier League
- Al Gharafa haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Al Shamal have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Shamal haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 25 | 28 |
| 2 | Al Duhail | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 18 | 25 |
| 3 | Al Arabi | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 20 |
| 4 | Al Gharafa | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 19 |
| 5 | Al Wakrah | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 |
| 6 | Umm Salal | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| 7 | Qatar SC | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | -2 | 12 |
| 8 | Al Rayyan | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -5 | 12 |
| 9 | Al Shamal | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | -7 | 9 |
| 10 | Al Ahli | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -10 | 9 |
| 11 | Al Sailiya | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 20 | -15 | 5 |
| 12 | Al Khor | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | -18 | 4 |
