Struggling Umm Salal will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Al Rayyan in the upcoming league round. It’s 12th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Umm Salal form and stats
The story so far in the Premier League for Umm Salal, who have the most conceded goals (14) at home in Premier League, at their home stadium is 1 win, 0 draws and 4 defeats. Regardless of arena the trend is looking very unhealthy for Umm Salal with their five defeats in a row. Not since the Al Shahaniya game, 91 days ago, have they avoided a loss. With Umm Salal having lost three times in a row here, the pressure is increasing on the manager A. Ben Askar.
A. Rhaili was the last player to score a league goal for Umm Salal and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Umm Salal haven't scored in 502 minutes.
Umm Salal's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus Al Sailiya (placed 5th). Ahead of that match, Umm Salal won a home game hosting Al Shahaniya (2-0).
Umm Salal have scored 3 league goals here from 5 matches, not a lot. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Umm Salal have allowed the opposition to score 14 goals here.
Al Rayyan form and stats
Playing away, Al Rayyan, who have the most clean sheets (5) in Premier League, have won 4 games, drawn 1 and suffered 0 defeats in the Premier League this season. Things are running smoothly for Al Rayyan who hasn't tasted defeat in their last eleven matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Umm Salal. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Al Rayyan's record of four away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the Al Duhail game.
Al Rayyan won their last game, 1-0 versus Al Wakrah played at home. The game before that, in the QSL Cup, was lost at home, a 0-6 defeat against Al Sadd.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Al Rayyan are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Al Rayyan have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Al Rayyan - Umm Salal 2-2 earlier this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Umm Salal won 0 games, 7 matches ended with a draw and Al Rayyan has 3 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 4 / 6Top Goalscorers
  Y. Sagbo 9 goals |   Rodrigo Barbosa Tabata 7 goals |  Mahmoud Al Mawas 6 goals |
Umm Salal missing players
Al Rayyan missing players
| Umm Salal | Al Rayyan | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 11 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 12 | 24 |
| 23 | 14 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 91% |
| 73% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 82% |
| 45% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 60% | 55% |
| 27% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 45% |
| 18% | 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 18% |
| 45% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 80% | 55% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 45% |
| 55% | 60% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 5.1 | 4.2 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 5 | 5.1 |
| 5.5 | 6 | 6 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7.4 | 6.4 |
| 1.5 | 1.4 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.4 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 121 | 59 | 7 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 35 | 93 |
| 36 | 15 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 25 | 53 |
| 19% | 20% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 48% | 45% |
- Al Rayyan has the fewest conceded goals (9)
- Al Rayyan has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4)
- Al Rayyan has the most clean sheets (5)
- Al Rayyan has the the best goal difference (+15)
- Al Rayyan have not yet lost a game.
- Al Rayyan have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Al Rayyan have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Al Rayyan have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Al Rayyan have scored more than double the goals of Umm Salal.
- Al Rayyan haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- All of Al Rayyan's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Umm Salal has the fewest scored goals (3) at home
- Umm Salal has the fewest scored goals (7)
- Umm Salal has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2)
- Umm Salal has the most conceded goals (14) at home
- Umm Salal has the most matches under the total-line (7)
- Umm Salal has the the worst goal difference (-11) at home
- Umm Salal has the the worst goal difference (-16)
- Umm Salal have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Umm Salal have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Umm Salal have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Umm Salal have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Umm Salal haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Umm Salal is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| 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 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 14 | 29 |
| 2 | Al Rayyan | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 15 | 25 |
| 3 | Al Gharafa | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 4 | Al Sadd | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 18 |
| 5 | Al Sailiya | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 17 |
| 6 | Al Arabi | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 7 | Qatar SC | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -3 | 13 |
| 8 | Al Ahli | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -4 | 13 |
| 9 | Al Wakrah | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -4 | 12 |
| 10 | Al Khor | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -8 | 6 |
| 11 | Al Shahaniya | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -14 | 5 |
| 12 | Umm Salal | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -16 | 5 |