The visiting Al Sadd team are probably favourites at Al Shamal, as the visitors hold a 18 point edge from their 17 league fixtures this season.
- Al Shamal is in the worst form (1-1-4)
- Al Sadd have the most scored goals (34) in Premier League
It's no vacation for neither Shamal nor Al Sadd 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 Shamal form and stats
Al Shamal's results here at Grand Hamad Stadium in the Premier League have been very modest with 2 victories, 2 draws and 6 defeats. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Al Shamal, their manager Abdulmajid and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
Shamal played out a slightly shocking loss 1-3 against Al Sadd (after extra-time) in their previous match, also played at home.
Preceding that match was the home game against Umm Salal (after extra-time) that was lost 0-1.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Al Shamal had similar winning odds as today, and found 4 games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 4. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Al Shamal lost 3 similar games by at least two goals.
Shamal have scored {9 league goals} here from 10 matches, not a lot. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Al Shamal defense is not exactly impregnable. 17 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Al Sadd form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier League travels is 5 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
Sadd play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting Al Shamal (after extra-time) (placed 9th).
A draw for Al Sadd before that, at their own venue hosting Al Duhail (after extra-time) (2-2).As opposed to that, Al Sadd have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The last head to head meeting ended Shamal - Al Sadd 1-3, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Al Shamal victory, one draw and eight Al Sadd wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Bounedjah 9 goals |  A. Afif 6 goals |   Y. Bammou 4 goals |
Al Shamal missing players
Al Sadd missing players
| Al Shamal | Al Sadd | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 15 | 9 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 18 | 34 |
| 25 | 17 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 13 | 21 |
| 94% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 62% | 70% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 56% | 60% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 78% | 71% |
| 25% | 30% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 35% |
| 12% | 10% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 12% |
| 44% | 40% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 89% | 71% |
| 19% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 29% |
| 44% | 50% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.9 | 4.3 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 9 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.7 | 3 | 2.7 |
| 2.2 | 2.3 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8.8 | 8.7 | 7.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 13.8 | 13.7 |
| 3.2 | 3.2 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 6 | 5.6 |
| 29% | 28% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 33% | 35% |
| 9.6 | 10 | 8.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.7 | 10.8 | 9.4 |
| 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 4.1 | 3.2 |
- Al Sadd have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Al Sadd have scored in all their matches so far.
- Al Sadd have scored more than double the goals of Al Shamal.
- Al Sadd have the most scored goals (34) in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Premier League
- Al Sadd haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Al Shamal have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Al Shamal is in the worst form (1-1-4)
- All of Al Sadd's away-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 Duhail | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 32 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 19 | 36 |
| 2 | Al Arabi | 16 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 11 | 34 |
| 3 | Al Sadd | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 34 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 32 |
| 4 | Al Gharafa | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 16 | -2 | 26 |
| 5 | Qatar SC | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 17 | -2 | 26 |
| 6 | Al Wakrah | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 12 | 24 |
| 7 | Al Ahli | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 12 | -3 | 21 |
| 8 | Al Markhiya | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -4 | 18 |
| 9 | Al Shamal | 16 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 25 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | -10 | 14 |
| 10 | Al Rayyan | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | -3 | 13 |
| 11 | Umm Salal | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 20 | -14 | 13 |
| 12 | Al Sailiya | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 34 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -17 | 9 |
