National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Al Khor or Al Rayyan that keep their silverware dream alive.
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.
Al Khor form and stats
Last season, Al Khor's QSL Cup journey ended in the quarter-finals.Three Premier League home games done for Al Khor, who are not happy collecting 2 points from these matches. 3W-0D-2L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the QSL Cup for Al Khor. All in all it has been a very rough period for Khor who hasn’t won a league-game in their last eleven attempts. Their previous win was against Qatar SC, 261 days ago.
The Khor supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Al Duhail in QSL Cup and win 6-0.
As indicated by the result mentioned above, Al Khor played a great game against Al Duhail and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. What a game it was for Léo Gamalho when beating Al Duhail, applying the finishing touch to three goals!
Al Khor aren't scoring a lot here in the league, with only 2 goals from 3 games. Khor's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 3 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Al Rayyan form and stats
Rayyan was sent out of QSL Cup in the quarter-finals last season.Al Rayyan are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premier League, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss). When we have look at the QSL Cup statistics, we find 2W-1D-2L. This is both home and away.
Rayyan play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Umm Salal. Before that, Al Rayyan secured a home win against Al Ahli with the score 2-0.
Rayyan have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 3 league away games 4 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Al Rayyan have seen the ball go into their own net 3 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Khor victories, three draws and five Al Rayyan wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  Y. Boli 3 goals |  Y. Brahimi 2 goals |  I. Amada 1 goals |
Al Khor missing players
Al Rayyan missing players
| Al Khor | Al Rayyan | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Won | W | 6 | 13 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | ||
| 35 | 19 | Scored | S | 20 | 31 | ||
| 28 | 13 | Conceded | C | 11 | 26 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 64% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 32% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 16% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 221 | 91 | Total Shots | T S | 127 | 213 | ||
| 100 | 46 | Shots on Target | S O | 64 | 110 | ||
| 35% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 28% | ||
| 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 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 16 | 13 |
| 2 | Al Ahli | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 3 | Al Duhail | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | Al Gharafa | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 5 | Al Rayyan | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | Al Wakrah | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 7 | Al Sailiya | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 7 |
| 8 | Al Kharitiyath | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -6 | 6 |
| 9 | Al Arabi | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 5 |
| 10 | Umm Salal | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 4 |
| 11 | Al Khor | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 3 |
| 12 | Qatar SC | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 3 |