Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Al Gharafa & Al Rayyan face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the QSL Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Al Gharafa form and stats
Last season, Al Gharafa's QSL Cup journey ended in the quarter-finals.Al Gharafa have collected 14 points from their Premier League home games so far after 4-2-4. 5W-1D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the QSL Cup for Al Gharafa. Three consecutive losses here is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.
In their previous game, the manager S. Jokanović led his Gharafa to a defeat in the Premier League match away at Al Wakrah. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here. Preceding that match was the home Premier League game against Al Ahli that was lost 1-3.
A decent goal production from Al Gharafa in their home games so far, with 16 goals from 10 league matches. Gharafa have conceded 14 in these home matches.
Al Rayyan form and stats
Al Rayyan was sent out of QSL Cup in the semi-finals last season.4 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Al Rayyan playing as the away team in the Premier League this season. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the QSL Cup stats, they have 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses both home and away.
Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against Al Ahli in the Premier League.
Rayyan find the net regularly in their away games. 13 goals from 9 away fixtures in the league. It's not easy to score on Rayyan as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Al Gharafa and Al Rayyan have met before this season: Al Rayyan - Gharafa 0-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Gharafa victories, two draws and three Al Rayyan wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Kodjia 10 goals |   Y. Boli 10 goals |  Y. Brahimi 6 goals |
Al Gharafa missing players
Al Rayyan missing players
| Al Gharafa | Al Rayyan | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Won | W | 6 | 13 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | ||
| 48 | 23 | Scored | S | 17 | 34 | ||
| 34 | 17 | Conceded | C | 8 | 23 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 88% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 80% | ||
| 64% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 32% | ||
| 40% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 8% | 12% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 60% | 62% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 20% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 2.1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.4 | 11.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.2 | 9 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.1 | 4.4 | ||
| 42% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 31% | ||
| 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 | 19 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 70 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 7 | 57 | 51 |
| 2 | Al Duhail | 19 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 45 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 29 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 23 | 40 |
| 3 | Al Rayyan | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 34 |
| 4 | Qatar SC | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 28 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 31 |
| 5 | Al Gharafa | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 36 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 5 | 30 |
| 6 | Al Ahli | 19 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | -7 | 29 |
| 7 | Al Arabi | 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 18 | -4 | 26 |
| 8 | Al Sailiya | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -12 | 23 |
| 9 | Al Wakrah | 20 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 17 | -12 | 22 |
| 10 | Umm Salal | 19 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 24 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 17 | -16 | 15 |
| 11 | Al Khor | 19 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 40 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 29 | -25 | 14 |
| 12 | Al Kharitiyath | 19 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 44 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 25 | -30 | 9 |