Struggling Umm Salal will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Al Sadd in the upcoming league round. It’s 9th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
- Umm Salal have the fewest scored goals (8) in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the most scored goals (66) in Premier League
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
Umm Salal form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Premier League this season. Umm Salal, who have the fewest scored goals (8) in Premier League, have only managed 1 win, 3 draws and 3 losses from their games here.
Umm Salal haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 436 minutes ago. Kayke scored that one.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Qatar SC (0-1).
There will be little rest for Salal after this match as they are travelling to Al Kharitiyath for a Premier League game in only four days.
Salal has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 1 goal from 7 games. From these home matches, Salal have conceded only 4 goals.
Al Sadd form and stats
The away performances of Al Sadd, who have the most scored goals (66) in Premier League, have been very solid so far with 7 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats in the Premier League. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. Impressively, the visitors are on a six-match winning run which they hope continue versus Umm Salal.
Before that, Sadd secured a home win against Al Ahli with the score 3-0.
Late drama in the previous game, when Santi Cazorla scored the winning goal three minutes into stoppage time to defeat Al Arabi.
A quick return to home after this game, as Sadd are hosting Al Wakrah in the Premier League only four days away.
The Al Sadd manager X. Hernández Creus has seen his team go crazy on the road this season, having scored 30 goals in 9 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Al Sadd as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Al Sadd - Umm Salal 3-1 earlier this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Umm Salal won one, Al Sadd won six and three draws. nine games with over 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Bounedjah 19 goals |  S. Cazorla González 11 goals |  R. Barbosa Tabata 7 goals |
Umm Salal missing players
Al Sadd missing players
| Umm Salal | Al Sadd | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 9 | 30 | 66 |
| 18 | 4 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 82% | 57% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 89% | 94% |
| 47% | 14% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 78% | 88% |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 82% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 67% | 76% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 56% | 59% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 78% | 65% |
| 35% | 57% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 22% | 35% |
| 53% | 86% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 11% | 6% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.4 | 1.9 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6.1 | 5 | 2.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 19.7 | 16.4 | 17.4 |
| 2.3 | 2.4 | 0.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 9 | 7.1 | 8.1 |
| 21% | 6% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 47% | 48% |
- Al Sadd have not yet lost a game.
- Al Sadd have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Al Sadd have scored more than double the goals of Umm Salal.
- Al Sadd have the fewest conceded goals (12) in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the most points (23) away in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the most scored goals (30) away in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the most scored goals (66) in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the most scored goals in the first half (26) in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the most scored goals in the second half (40) in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the the best goal difference (+23) away in Premier League
- Al Sadd have the the best goal difference (+54) in Premier League
- Al Sadd is in the best form (6-0-0)
- Umm Salal have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Umm Salal have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in Premier League
- Umm Salal have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Premier League
- Umm Salal have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Premier League
- Umm Salal have the fewest scored goals (8) in Premier League
- Umm Salal have the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) in Premier League
- Umm Salal have the most matches under the total-line (14) in Premier League
| 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 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 66 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 7 | 54 | 47 |
| 2 | Al Duhail | 17 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 41 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 29 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 19 | 34 |
| 3 | Qatar SC | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 28 |
| 4 | Al Rayyan | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 28 |
| 5 | Al Gharafa | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 32 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 7 | 27 |
| 6 | Al Ahli | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | -7 | 26 |
| 7 | Al Arabi | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -3 | 23 |
| 8 | Al Sailiya | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 28 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 11 | -9 | 23 |
| 9 | Umm Salal | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -10 | 15 |
| 10 | Al Wakrah | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 16 | -15 | 15 |
| 11 | Al Khor | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 35 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 29 | -22 | 14 |
| 12 | Al Kharitiyath | 17 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 11 | 42 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 25 | -31 | 6 |