National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Al Taawon or Al Faisaly that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Taawon's stadium has a grass surface. Al Faisaly have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Al Faisaly when playing on grass; 11 wins, 7 draws and 17 losses from 35 matches. They have scored 44 goals in these games and conceded 49.
Al Taawon form and stats
Last season, Taawon's Kings Cup journey ended in the 8th finals.Al Taawon have collected 25 points from their Pro League home games so far after 7-4-4. This match is a Kings Cup match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses in this competition.
The Al Taawon crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Al Hilal here in a Pro League match.
In the game before, an away victory in the Pro League match versus Al Raed with a 2-1 scoreline.Taawon are traveling soon after this match as the Pro League match at Dhamk awaits in four days.
Taawon have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 25 goals in 15 league matches. 16 goals have been conceded.
Al Faisaly form and stats
Faisaly was sent out of Kings Cup in the 8th finals last season.As the visiting team in Pro League matches, Al Faisaly have produced an overall stat of 5-4-5 so far. When we have look at the Kings Cup statistics, we find 2W-1D-0L. This is both home and away.
The manager P. Oliveira Chamusca was unhappy after their last game, a Pro League match played at their home ground King Salman bin Abdulaziz Sport City Stadium. Faisaly suffered a 1-5 loss to Al Shabab. Faisaly lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one.
Before that, Faisaly secured a home win against Abha with the score 2-1.The schedule is very tough for Al Faisaly now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Pro League game at Al Hilal is waiting in only four days.
Faisaly are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 20 away goals from 14 games (in the league). Faisaly have conceded 17 goals in these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Al Taawon-Al Faisaly H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Taawon five wins, Al Faisaly two wins, three draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Al Taawon missing players
Al Faisaly missing players
| Al Taawon | Al Faisaly | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 10 | ||
| 43 | 26 | Scored | S | 19 | 35 | ||
| 27 | 17 | Conceded | C | 14 | 38 | ||
| 88% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 76% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 76% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 24% | ||
| 44% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 24% | ||
| 32% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 24% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 3 | 3.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.3 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 10.1 | 10.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 9.3 | ||
| 3.9 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.2 | ||
| 44% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 35% | ||
| 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 Hilal | 29 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 57 | 25 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 14 | 32 | 58 |
| 2 | Al Shabab | 29 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 65 | 43 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 38 | 25 | 22 | 54 |
| 3 | Al Ittihad | 28 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 42 | 28 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 16 | 14 | 50 |
| 4 | Al Taawon | 29 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 42 | 28 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 47 |
| 5 | Al Nassr | 28 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 51 | 37 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 34 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 14 | 45 |
| 6 | Al Ittifaq | 28 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 45 | 46 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 22 | 25 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 21 | -1 | 41 |
| 7 | Al Fateh | 28 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 50 | 53 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 24 | 32 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 26 | 21 | -3 | 38 |
| 8 | Al Ahli | 28 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 42 | 53 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 24 | 35 | -11 | 38 |
| 9 | Al Faisaly | 29 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 40 | 44 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 27 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 17 | -4 | 36 |
| 10 | Al Raed | 28 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 41 | 42 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 18 | -1 | 35 |
| 11 | Al Quadisiya | 28 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 40 | 43 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 23 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 20 | -3 | 34 |
| 12 | Abha | 28 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 40 | 48 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 22 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 21 | 26 | -8 | 34 |
| 13 | Al Batin | 28 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 39 | 50 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 22 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 28 | -11 | 33 |
| 14 | Al Wahda | 28 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 39 | 56 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 19 | 31 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 25 | -17 | 31 |
| 15 | Dhamk | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 39 | 48 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 29 | -9 | 30 |
| 16 | Al-Ain | 28 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 31 | 59 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 31 | -28 | 20 |