National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Al Khor or Qatar SC that keep their silverware dream alive.
This looks to be an intriguing match with lots of spark and energy as both participants are well recovered since they last saw competitive action. Let's start!
Al Khor form and stats
Al Khor participated in QSL Cup the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals.The complete Premier League stats playing at home this season for Al Khor are 0-1-3 (wins-draws-losses). 1W-2D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the QSL Cup for Al Khor. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Al Khor to get some points in this home game.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 272 minutes without scoring a league goal. I. El Haddad was the last player to find the net.
The Khor supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Al Gharafa in QSL Cup and win 4-2. A goal frenzy last time out for Khor, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Al Gharafa. Fun stuff to watch!
Before that game, the home loss against Al Arabi with the scoreline 0-2.Khor has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches. As for conceded goals, Khor's unpleasant statistic is 10 goals surrendered.
Qatar SC form and stats
Qatar was sent out of QSL Cup in the group stage last season.Things could have gone better for Qatar SC in their Premier League away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the QSL Cup stats, they have 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses both home and away.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Qatar, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-8 versus Al Sailiya. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Al Sailiya was particularly ugly (0-8). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Preceding that, the 1-4 home loss versus Al Arabi.The visiting Qatar SC have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 4 goals from 3 games. 4 goals have been conceded by Qatar in these games.
Head 2 Head
Qatar SC - Khor 2-1 was the output when these two sides last did battle, earlier this season. Last ten meetings with these sides: Al Khor won four, Qatar SC triumphed in five and we saw one draw. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with under 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  R. Vaz dos Santos 2 goals | I. El Haddad 2 goals |  B. Bonyan 2 goals |
Al Khor missing players
Qatar SC missing players
| Al Khor | Qatar SC | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | ||
| 10 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 9 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 28 | 16 | Scored | S | 9 | 27 | ||
| 51 | 21 | Conceded | C | 20 | 42 | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 80% | ||
| 64% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 60% | ||
| 44% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 9% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 8% | ||
| 68% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 64% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 20% | ||
| 32% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 28% | ||
| 4.4 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.1 | ||
| 5.3 | 6.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 5.3 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 7.9 | 8.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 8.3 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 3.3 | ||
| 33% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 33% | ||
| 10.2 | 10.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 10.4 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.2 | ||
| 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 Arabi | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Al Sailiya | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| 3 | Al Khor | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Al Gharafa | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | Qatar SC | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | -10 | 4 |
| 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 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 22 | 25 |
| 2 | Al Duhail | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 22 |
| 3 | Al Arabi | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 19 |
| 4 | Al Gharafa | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 15 |
| 5 | Al Wakrah | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
| 6 | Umm Salal | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 7 | Qatar SC | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 9 |
| 8 | Al Rayyan | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -5 | 9 |
| 9 | Al Shamal | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | -6 | 8 |
| 10 | Al Ahli | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 6 |
| 11 | Al Sailiya | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -11 | 5 |
| 12 | Al Khor | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | -15 | 4 |